Items matching colour (results page 29)

Decorative initial letter “U” or “V” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A deep blue with a red and green background and heavy patterning around this Uncial letter U, which has a head like a creature and vines growing inside it, one of which appears to have a cat’s head. S [...]

Keywords: letteru, initials, calligraphy, blue, red, green, yellow, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-12-12

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Decorative initial letter “J” from 11th century.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A deep blue with a red and green background and heavy patterning around this Uncial letter J, whose tail is made of a dragon biting the lower corner of the vertical stem of the letter. Note that it wo [...]

Keywords: letterj, initials, calligraphyletterj, blue, red, yellow, green, dragons, mythical creatures, historiated initials, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-08-05

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261.—Knole, Kent.English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Plate 261 - The West Side of the Green Court.

Keywords: manors, creeper, windows, doors, entrances, chimneys, courtyards, colour

Places shown: Knole; Kent; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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262.—Knole, Kent.English Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Plate 260 - Bourchier’s Gate-house.

The home of the Sackvilles since 1603; it was first built in and around 1457 by Archbishop Bourchier.

Keywords: manors, castles, entrances, clocks, windows, towers, doors, colour

Places shown: Knole; Kent; England

Added: 2004-03-04

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Bocardo, destroyed in 1771.Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

Lang says that the Bocardo Prison predated the University.

The image is signed “S. R.”

Keywords: churches, streets, carts, carriages, people, clocks, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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Myself when youngThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1905)

XXVII Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. A white-bearded sage teaches two boys t [...]

Keywords: people, children, bare feet, beards, colour, monks

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-26

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Chapter II. Of Marshalling. Section I. Of the Disposition of divers Coat-Armours in one Shield (or Escocheon) which is the first Part of Marshalling.The Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-02-26

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28.—XII. Century No. 1The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Almost a complete gothic (blackletter or old english) alphabet; I have supplied some rather grotesque monstrosities for “K” and ”V” at the foot of the page. The description in the book is a little con [...]

Keywords: calligraphy, alphabets, writing, lettering, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-02-20

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The GardenerSome British Ballads (1919)

A smiling young man with hauntingly blue eyes stands smiling at the gate to his thatched country cottage. A lady with a country-style scarf and dress addresses him. “ The gardener stands in his bower [...]

Keywords: cottages, colour, people, thatched cottages

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-29

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Page 2: The Marvelous Pedestal and The Wonderful Egg Trick.Conjuring Tricks (1890)

The wonderful egg coud be opened in two places; the “egg” was of wood, and hollow, so that you could open the container below it.

Keywords: page images, games, diagrams, magic, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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close-up of the engraving on the title pageOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

A dog is laying down under a tree, watching over a flock of grazing sheep, in this 1713 woodcut or wood engraving from the title page. The caption says “EASY NOT IDLE”.

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-06-16

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Plate 3. Chipping Campden Church and AlmshousesCotswold Country (1939)

Chipping Campden, Church and Almshouses

Chipping Campden was the home of William Morris, the founder of the Arts and craft movement in 19th century England.

Keywords: old photographs, villages, churches, buildings, streets, colour

Places shown: Chipping Campden; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2008-08-28

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Rev. Theobald MathewThe Cabinet of Irish Literature (1892)

Father Mathew, from the picture by J Haverty. The Reverend Theobald Mathew, D.D. (1790 – 1856) was a temperance reformer from Thomastown in Kilkenny County. He was known for speaking against drinking [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, men, books, pictures of books, reading, preachers, religion, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-03-11

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III. The Temple Over the Canyon, SegestaIn the Land of the Temples (1915)

“Everyone advised me to go to Segesta, and I am glad I wemt, but I should never have known how wonderfully the Greeks made architectural compositions if I had not seen the Grand Canyon. There I saw N [...]

Keywords: temples, ruins, hills, mountains, sketches, ancient greek remains, colour

Places shown: Segesta; Trapani; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2004-01-05

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30.—Chicory, Cichorium Intybus, L.Farm Weeds (1906)

Plate 30. CHICORY, Cichorium Intybus, L. Other English Names: Wild Chicory, Wild Succory. (Noxious: Dom.) Introduced. Perennial from a long deep rootstock. Stems 2 to 3 feet high, branched, hairy be [...]

Keywords: colour, page images, flowers, wild flowers, weeds

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-27

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Penrith Castle, CumberlandThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Published 3rd April 1784 by S. Hooper; Signed T. Pye.

Keywords: castles, clouds, animals, deer, people, trees, colour

Places shown: Penrith; Cumberland; Wales

Added: 2003-06-26

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Section I. continued; Section II. Of Things Marshall’d without the Escocheon.The Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-02-26

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A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The ChiselingModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

A man with short back and sides hair, a suit jacket, and what looks like a green dress but is probably an apron, uses a small hammer with a chisel on a shield. In the background plate armour for a war [...]

Keywords: tradesmen, armour, lances, weapons, horses, men, people, candleabra, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-11-28

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Penrhyn CastlePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

Penrhyn Castle is actually an early nineteenth century rebuild on the site of a much older building, and is in more or less the style of a Norman castle on steroids. The money to rebuild the castle ca [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, turrets, battlements, sheep, people, windows, trees, colour

Places shown: Llandygai; Bangor; Wales

Added: 2026-05-05

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Holyrood Palace From the Public Gardens Under Calton HillEdinburgh (1912)

“Holyrood Palace stretches across the picture east and west, and is dominated by Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags. The dark turret at the west end of the nearest and north wing contains the private s [...]

Keywords: abbeys, manors, cities, houses, trees, mountains, birds, palaces, views, cityscapes, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2005-07-21

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