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Birth of the RoseArt-Journal (1850)

Engraved by T. W. Knight from the statue by B. Jennings. This statue won first prize for sculpture in the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was given to Birmingham Free Library in 1914; I do not know wheth [...]

Keywords: romance, flowers, roses, boys, people, men, statuary, cupid, cupids, angels, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-01-28

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Christians Flung To The Wild BeastsPopular History of Rome, A (1886)

A scene in the Roman Colosseum, the great theatre where the gladiators fought. But in this case a group of Christians, including men, women and children, has been made available to lions, tigers and [...]

Keywords: people, animals, sporting events, religion, torture, punishments, bare feet, nudity, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-01-28

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Old Shop, corner of Fleet Street and Chancery Lane in 1799London (Volume V) (1843)

The general character of shops in olden London was to have the wares exposed openly to the street, without any barrier of glass between the buyer and seller. Wherever our old topographers and chronicl [...]

Keywords: buildings, shops, architecture, windows, people, old-fashioned, xmas, greyscale

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2019-02-25

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Typographic ornament with leaves and flowersJugend [German art magazine] (1903)

I think it’s ment to be ivy or oak, with maybe bluebell flowers? I’m not sure. This is a typographic ornament or end-piece for finishing off a chapter. The piece was signed R. B. but I’m not sure who [...]

Keywords: ornaments, endpieces, leaves, flowers, floriated ornament, foliated ornament, ivy, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-10

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Initial letter T with cherubsMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

An initial letter “T” used as a drop cap in the magazine; the letter is supported by two naked people wity styized wings; they have genitals but are clearly intended to be infants. There is also a flo [...]

Keywords: cherubs, romance, lettert, initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-21

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Poppies and Tiger LilliesMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

This is a digital scan of a print of an engraving representing a painting on china done in 1878 by Miss Charlotte H. Spiers. The plate in question was shown at the fifth Annual exhibition of Painting [...]

Keywords: poppies, lillies, flowers, swallows, burds, paintings, art, medallions, circular, round, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-06-29

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Vintage TractorsDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Traction Engines, or steam-powered tractors, from 1890

Keywords: machinery, farm machinery, traction engines, fields, steam power, industrial revolution, rural, machines, wheels, steam, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-07

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GibeonGood Words (1865)

Gibeon was a Canaanite settlement north of Jerusalem; the ruins pictured here are later, from the Iron Age, long after Israelites had arrived, slaughtered the locals, built new condominiums, and decla [...]

Keywords: palestine, buildings, terraces, walls, trees, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Al-Gib; Palestine

Added: 2025-01-07

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They knelt on the seat, and fired deliberatelyChatterbox Annual (1916)

It’s winter, and the horses are pulling the sleigh over the snow and through the forest, with wolves in hot pursuit. The young people (teens?) in the back are firing their rifles at the wolves. “Annie [...]

Keywords: horses, carts, people, guns, weapons, wolves, winter, snow, trees, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-16

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Shelter.Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

Shelter by Arthur Hopkins. Two boys and two girls use a rocky ledge by the sea as shelter from the rain. The girls have dresses, and the boys are barefoot, and have sun-hats, suggesting that it is Sum [...]

Keywords: art, people, bare feet, storms, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-20

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Panting was his heart with frightChatterbox Annual (1916)

A dog is leaping in chase after a rabbit; another rabbit looks on nervously in the background. Bright the summer morn and early,     Sweetly sang the lark on high, Meadow grass with dew was pearly,   [...]

Keywords: animals, rabbits, dogs, poems, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-16

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Atrolabe: scientist and boyThe Works of Geoffrey Chaucer [William Morris, Kelmscott Press] (1896)

This illustration, surrounded by a leafy border inspired by medieval and early printed books, shows a man holding a robe and with sixteenth-century or earlier style courtly footwear and hat, standing [...]

Keywords: borders, foliated borders, castles, astrolabes, scientific instruments, medieval costumes, men, boys, people, roofs, battlements, chaucer, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-14

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The Cow DoctorGodey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Vol LXXXI January to June) (1870)

A farmer and his wife, perhaps, stand behind a cow while a dog looks on. The man has his top hat in his hand. The farmer is smiling with outstretched arm and a well-fed stomach, well-dressed with feat [...]

Keywords: cows, animals, people, farms, farmers, farming, doctors, vets, vetinarians, children, farmhouses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-04-29

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Shilling, William IIIThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

This wood-engraving shows the two sides of a shilling from 1699, in the reign of King William III of England. The coin has the King’s portait in profile on one side and shields on the other for Ierlan [...]

Keywords: coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-06

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Halfpenny, William IIIThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

This wood-engraving shows the two sides of a halfpenny from 1699, in the reign of King William III of England. The coin has the King’s portrait on the front and Britannia seated in her chariot on the [...]

Keywords: coins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-08-19

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Sir Isaac NewtonThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of the apple.

Biography of Isaac Newton from 1812.

Another portrait of Isaac Newton.

Keywords: people, portraits, wigs, newton, physics, science, scientists, men, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-16

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A genteel wheelchair in ParisModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XIV (1900)

A porter pushes a well-dressed lady in an old-fashioned wheelchair, a vintage conveyance reminiscent of an English Victorian bath chair. The lady has a parasol with her. The original caption was Im Fa [...]

Keywords: people, wheelchairs, accessibility, porters, woman, men, wheels, carriages, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2025-01-22

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Plate 41.—Cardiff CastleHistory of Wales (1853)

The castle dates from 1090 or so; Robert son of William I was imprisoned there for 26 years. Cardiff is now capital of Wales; in 1904 it had a population of 164,333.

Keywords: castles, ruins, trees, towers, greyscale

Places shown: Cardiff; Glamorgan; Wales

Added: 2003-09-03

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And then began a murder, grim and greatGood Words (1865)

Hereward the Wake is about to kill his brother, who pleads for mercy but to no avail. The scene is set inside an Anglo-Saxon hall (although the stone pillar in the backgroundmakes it a rather fancy on [...]

Keywords: murder, attack, anglo-saxons, warriors, weapons, swords, interiors, people, men, socked feet, costumes, death, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-01-08

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Boy Fairy Resting on a FlowerAtalanta Magazine (1888)

An end-of-chapter tailpiece showing a small nude boy laying on a sunflower, and holding a daisy in one hand; his feet rest on another daisy. I think he is meant to be a flower fairy, although he does [...]

Keywords: fairies, cherubs, illustrations for children, people, mythical creatures, children, nudity, bare feet, relaxing, warmth, summer, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-13

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