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123x200, 455x740, 607x987, 809x1316 | Perseus und Andromeda.Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882) A damsel in distress if ever the was one! The woman (Andromeda) is chained at wrist and ankle to a rock in the sea, and a viscious sea-monster is about to swaller her up. But look! The helmeted and sa [...] Keywords: dragons, monsters, chains, bare feet, gods, heroes, swords, water, waves, mythology, illustrations for children, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-06-14 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1035x1307, 1380x1742, 158x200, 582x735, 776x980 | Young BekieSome British Ballads (1919) The picture shows a young man lying on the floor of a prison cell or castle dungeon [donjon], his hands on his head, and with one ankle chained to the wall. There are a great number of rats or mice i [...] Keywords: interiors, prisons, animals, people, chains, colour, spooky Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France Added: 2006-05-13 + S K L R N |
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145x200, 1772x2450, 542x750, 886x1225 | Strength and CunningModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893) Kraft ud List, which is, Strength (the lion) and Cunning (the demoness or harpy). Here we have a lion with a chain around its neck; leaning against it is a dark-eyed winged woman; perhaps she holds th [...] Keywords: lions, animals, demons, people, wings, women, imaginary creatures, fantasy, death, chains, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2021-06-23 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1272x1712, 148x200, 537x722, 716x963, 954x1284 | The Mad Hatter in Chains.Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871) The Mad hatter is in a dungeon, sitting on a three-legged milking stool, with a very heavy iron chain fastened to a ring set in the stone wall at one end and to a fetter round his left ankle at the ot [...] Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, people, mad hatter, punishments, prison, sadness, chains, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2013-01-14 + S K L |
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| 104x200, 1362x2625, 389x750, 681x1313 | Charles-Quint TriomphantMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880) Dessin au fusain de C. Molony, d’après le bronze de Leone Léoni. (Musée du Prado, à Madrid.) This is an engraving of a charcoal drawing made by C. Molony after the bronze statue of Leone Léoni depicti [...] Keywords: statues, statuary, art, drawings, wariors, armour, nudity, people, bare feet, chains, prisoners, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-10-15 + S K L |
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145x200, 486x672, 648x896, 864x1195 | The Sacrifice to the Nile.Pictureseque Egypt Vol I (1878) A young woman, scantily clad except for a long diaphonous wedding veil, stands on a stone platform. She is barefoot, and chained by her ankles to a heavy rock; her hands are tied at her sides. She is [...] Keywords: people, religion, bare feet, chains, torture, punishments, sacrifice, ancient egypt, greyscale Places shown: Egypt Added: 2010-11-20 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 179x200, 1924x2150, 671x750 | John Bunyan at Bedford Gaol.The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878) John Bunyan was born at Elstow, near Bedford, in 1628. His parents were poor, and he received the merest rudiments of education. As a youth he became notorious for his profanity, but his vigorous n [...] Keywords: john bunyan, people, writers, prisons, punishments, chains, leg irons, cats, animals, arches, children, men, women, hats, costume, misery, greyscale Places shown: Bedford; Bedfordshire; England Added: 2018-08-12 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | John Bunyan’s chained leg in prisonThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878) This detail from John Bunyan at Bedford Gaol shows a manacle or leg-iron around John Bunyan’s black-stocking’d leg fastened to a heavy chain which is set into the wall of the prison. I’ve sized this i [...] Keywords: chains, feet, leg irons, prison, punishments, shoes, john bunyan, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-08-13 + S K L |
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Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required | 1861x1768, 211x200, 5584x5304, 931x884 | Plate XCIX.—Hydrostatics.—Fig. 1. A quadruple pump-mill for raising water.Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771) The height of modern technology in 1771: a super-efficient pump powered by a water wheel! The ngine is represented in Plate 99. fig. 1. In which ABCD is a wheel, turned by water according to the order [...] Keywords: diagrams, machinery, wheels, pulleys, chains, whaterwheels, pumps, hydraulics, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2014-03-24 + S K L |
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