Items matching colour (results page 22)

AprilThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

April from The Shepheardes Calendar, or, as Spenser wrote it, Aprill. This Æglogue was written to honour Queen Elizabeth I. There are two shepherds, Hobbinoll and Thenott; we met Hobbinoll earlier, wh [...]

Keywords: colour, calendars, months, april, royalty, people, zodiac

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-08

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MayThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

May from The Shepheardes Calendar, showing two shepherds, Piers and Palinodie, represented as as a Protestant and a Catholic minister. In the sky we see the zodiac sign for Gemini, together with the t [...]

Keywords: colour, calendars, months, may, people, dancing, goats, animals, zodiac

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-08

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Crayon Sketch of Charles Dickens, 1838Charles Dickens Rare Print Collection (1900)

Boz from a painting by Samuel Lawrence This drawing in crayon was exhibited by the artist Samuel Lawrence (also written Laurence) in 1838; it shows him with a side parting in his hair and wearing a cr [...]

Keywords: dickens, people, portraits, signatures, drawings, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-04-06

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I. Aetna over TaorminaIn the Land of the Temples (1915)

“For years I wanted to make this drawing—and for days after I reached Taormina I had to wait before I could make it: for a curtain of mist hung over the sea and land. Then suddenly in all its glory t [...]

Keywords: temples, mountains, sketches, ruins, colour

Places shown: Taormina; Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2003-12-14

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6.—Urizen in the Womb-like GlobeFirst Book of Urizen (1794)

Urizen floats naked in the darkness. Full-page illustration without text.

Keywords: occult, people, nudity, bare feet, beards, christmas, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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Chapter I, Of Blazon., Section I, Rules of Blazoning in GeneralThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-02-26

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Jedburgh AbbeyIn Search of Scotland (1929)

So these abbeys—Kelso, Jedburgh, Dryburgh, and Melrose—as close together as the abbeys of Yorkshire, preached the gospel of love in a land of hate. They were situated gallantly in the front line like [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, arches, norman architecture, colour

Places shown: Jedburgh; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2008-01-13

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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

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103. Sonnet Introduction PageLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Full page image. In the decoration, the angel, presumably representing love, is beckoning towards the writer. The text reads as follows: This sonnet has many parts: whereof the first tells how I felt [...]

Keywords: colour, page images, angels

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-13

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Sonnet Introduction BorderLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The border and decoration from page 103. An angel, wearing a toga, but with bare feet and bare-legged, beckons to the writer, depicted as a monk with a robe and medieval pointed shoes. I included fai [...]

Keywords: monks, angels, robes, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-13

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The Signs and PlanetsAstrology (1806)

A TABLE exhibiting at one View the Natures Dignities, Triplicities & Affections of the Signs and Planets.

Opposite Vol I p. 107.

Keywords: astrology, occult, charts, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-10

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The Well of KnowledgeThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The jester leads the donkey (or mule) to the well of knowedge (written, quaintly, “Knowledge. HerWelle”) but, stubbronly, the mule refuses to drink. The mule is wearing the board and gown of a univers [...]

Keywords: colour, humour, jesters, wells, sketches, cartoons

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-07

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Letter KOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A decorative initial capital K from page 11. Judging by the carefully-trimmed shrubbery I’d say the initial was made for the book.

Keywords: initials, letterk, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-07-31

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Page 113. Four Footed Beasts.Buch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

Cow and camel, Elk and Elephant (or is that a unicorn on the right?), lion and horse, rabbit and hound!

The page has only this illustration, no text.

Keywords: animals, paintings, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-10

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115. Love Hath So Long Possessed MeLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Full page image showing the sonnet and also the decoration. I have scanned the angel separately, as the next image. Love hath so long possess’d me for his own And made his lordship so familiar That he [...]

Keywords: page images, colour, angels, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-13

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Angel from page 115La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The angel from page 115. The angel carries a music book (I think, or possibly a harp), and kneels with hands clasped as if in prayer. He wears a white robe and has golden wings. I cut out this detail [...]

Keywords: angels, christmas, colour, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-13

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Reading Abbey, Berkshire.The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Engraving dated 1773. The paper is slightly buckled, sorry.

There is also another image of Reading Abbey.

There is a newer scan of this engraving.

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, people, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 1999-10-28

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CambridgeshireThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A public domain map of the County of Cambridgeshire in England, from 1783. Places marked on the map include the following: Abbingtons, Arrington, Audre, Batsham, Bedelhey, Bigleswade (Bedfordshire), B [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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Section II, Accidents of Arms, TincturesThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-02-26

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The Kitchen Wall, PeterhouseCambridge (1920)

“But the history of the English Universities must be considered as that of communities into whose lives colleges were introduced for a social rather than a scholastic purpose. Cambridge grew into a se [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards

Places shown: Peterhouse College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-28

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