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Differences (continued). Sect. III, Essential Parts of Arms: The Escocheon [i.e., Escutcheon], Points, and AbatementsThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-02-26

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S. Peter’s and Castel Sant’ Angelo From the TiberRome (1905)

A painting showing St Peter’s Basilica and Saint Angelo’s Castle from the river Tiber, at sunset. There is also a version of this image cropped for use as a computer desktop background, or wallpaper i [...]

Keywords: rome, churches, cathedrals, colour, sunsets, christmas

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: OlympiaThe History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915)

One corner of a gold-on-black border for a mural, with urns and pineapples. Marble floor from Olympia, (Poppe Sammlung von Ornamentun u. Fragmenten antiker Architektur, Skulptur, Mosaik and Toreutik). [...]

Keywords: borders, ancient greek remains, design, ornaments, colour, mosaics

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-26

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 1: Olympia - full-page border/decorative frame version.The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915)

I made this decorative border, or full-page frame, gold on a black background, from one corner, for use in scrapbooking, Web design, or general publishing.

Keywords: borders, frames, ornaments, ancient greek remains, colour, mosaics

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-26

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Miniature painting of a scribe writing at a deskBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

A Mediæval (OK, Medieval in America) miniature painting taken from a Latin book of hours. A bearded scribe uses a quill pen to write in a book that rests on a wooden writing desk. He wears a blue gow [...]

Keywords: colour, scholars, people, books, angels, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 2: EleusiusThe History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915)

One corner of a mosaic floor, with a border of interlocking circles. It might make an interesting design element in a Web page or scrap book, perhaps faded out to one corner, or completed to make a f [...]

Keywords: borders, mosaics, ancient greek remains, colour, patterns, ornaments

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-27

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 3: Temple FloorThe History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915)

A part of an Ancient greek mosaic floor in Sicily, uprooted and taken to the museum of the Court of Biscari. Note that the different elements in this border repeat at different rates, making it hard t [...]

Keywords: borders, mosaics, ancient greek remains, colour, patterns, ornaments

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-02-02

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 5: Temple Floor patternThe History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915)

A part of an Ancient greek mosaic floor in Sicily, uprooted and taken to the museum of the Court of Biscari.

Keywords: borders, mosaics, ancient greek remains, colour, patterns, ornaments

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-04-20

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[Ancient] Greek Marble Mosaics 9: HexagonsThe History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts (1915)

Keywords: borders, patterns, ornaments, colour, mosaics

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-26

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Letter “C” from 16th century book of hoursBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

The letter C painted in red and gold used as a decorative initial.

This image was on image 16 of the Library of Congress page images.

Keywords: letterc, initials, calligraphy, red, gold, colour, lettering, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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Page detail from Mediaeval Book of HoursBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

A fragment of a hand-written page of calligraphy from the late mediæval period—or from the Rennaissance, one might say, and made well after printing was common-place amongst those who could afford boo [...]

Keywords: colour, page images, calligraphy, lettering, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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St. Peter’s Rome from the River Tiber: wallpaper versionRome (1905)

A version of the painting of St. Peter’s Rome from the River Tiber cropped for use as a screen background, desktop, wallpaper image, root window picture, or whatever you want to call it.

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, colour, cathedrals, sunsets

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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A BanquetA Short History of the English People (1902)

A medieval feast! Two people are seated behind a table laden with food; at either side a person (a servant or slave perhaps) kneels and hands food to one of the seated figures. Between the two seat [...]

Keywords: colour, food, people, thanksgiving, feasts, servants, tables

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-26

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166.—Two dogs in ScotlandNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Two dogs in the Scottish highlands, with a crofter’s cottage in the background. The dogs are border collies, I think: sheepdogs.

Keywords: dogs, hills, cottages, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2011-04-09

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169.—Condover Hall, ShropshireEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

A Corner of the North Elevation showing the position of the lead heads. “A Royal manor in Saxon times Condover, throughout the sixteenth century, was in and out of the hands of the Crown until, in 158 [...]

Keywords: manors, entrances, windows, colour

Places shown: Condover; Shropshire; England

Added: 2003-03-30

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Portrait of Admiral the Hon. H. J. Rous.National Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

Henry John Routhe second son of the first Earl of Stradbroke, by his second wife, Charlotte Maria, daughter of A. Whittaker, Esq., was born at Henham Hall, Suffolk, on hte 23rd of January, 1795. He se [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-07-28

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17.—14th Century Illuminated MS.Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This upper-case alphabet printed in green has thin tendrils intertwining between the letters, so that it is impossible to tell for certain where one letter ends and the next begins.

Keywords: initials, alphabets, colour, typography, green, tendrils, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-05-19

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The Old Hall, Corpus Christi CollegeCambridge (1920)

Corpus Christi college was founded in A.D. 1352. “Before turning to the more modern aspect of Cambridge, the subject demands that something should be said of those notable periods of prosperity, the f [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards, creeper, windows

Places shown: Corpus Christi College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-08-17

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Double BorderSpécimen Album (1900)

Late Victorian green foliate border with red line, French. This double border formed part of the tile page, I think. Here I have removed the text so that the Victorian border is alone for reuse. I hav [...]

Keywords: borders, victorian borders, floriated borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-04-24

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Evangelist with lionBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

A bearded man, perhaps in his thirties or forties, sits holding a book in his lap; to his left is a writing stand with an open manuscript; he holds a quill pen to his eye. There is a lion behind him, [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, animals, windows, writing, pictures of books, religion, scholars, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-29

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