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

TAYMOUTH CASTLE Near Aberfeldy, Perthshire,—Marquis of Breadalbane. This magnificent seat may well carry us back in thought to the feudal times, and even in them it would have been conspicuous for siz [...]

Keywords: stately homes, castles, mountains, forests, trees, windows, towers, battlements, lawns, turrets, manors, colour

Places shown: Kenmore; Perthshire; Scotland

Added: 2024-12-23

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Crusaders attacking a castleWorld’s Best Music (1900)

Crusaders (Mediaeval [US. Medieval] soldiers) attack a castle. One of them has just been struck by an arrow. The man behind him wears a crown, and his hauberk bears the three lions of England. To the [...]

Keywords: castles, people, battles, weapons, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-07-25

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311.—Avebury Manor, WiltshireEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

Avebury Manor, Wiltshire.

Church, Stable and House

The church predates 1275 but the main part of the house probably dates from the 1560s. The south porch bears the date 1601, however.

Keywords: manors, churches, trees, sundials, creeper, windows, stately homes, topiary, colour

Places shown: Avebury Manor; Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2003-08-16

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312.—Avebury Manor, WiltshireEnglish Homes Period III Vol. I, Late Tudor & Early Stuart (1558‒1649) (1922)

The Ancient Cut Box Tree on the South Lawn

Keywords: manors, trees, entrances, creeper, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2003-08-16

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Methought what pain it was to drownA Painter’s Anthology (1924)

Dangling seaweed from above; fishes; a treasure on the bottom; a watercolour scene of the sea to illustrate the dream of Clarence from Shakespeare’s play Richard III. Methought, what pain it was to [...]

Keywords: colour, underwater scenes, water, fish, blue, art, treasure

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-05-09

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Bishop of Gloucester and BristolNational Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

Charles John Ellicott was born in 1819 in Whitwell, between Stamford and Oakham in Rutland, and died in Kent in 1905. As a bishop he was a supporter of the temperance movement in England. An interesti [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-11-29

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(Ornaments of an Achievement, with pictures of helmets)The Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-02-26

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p.33 Domesday Book.Historic Byways and Highways of Old England (1900)

A line-drawing of some old leather-bound books, closed The Domesday Book was compiled at the order of William the Conqueror (1066 and all that) almost a thousand years ago. It was an inventory of all [...]

Keywords: books, line art, pictures of books, colour

Places shown: England

Added: 2003-05-11

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Blue Lettuce, Lactuca pulchella, DC.Farm Weeds (1906)

“Other Enlish names: Showy Lettuce, Large-flowered Blue lettuce. Other Latin names: Mulgedium pulchellum, Nut.; Mulgedium acuminatum, DC.; Sonchus pulchellus, Pursh. Native. perennial, deep-rooted. St [...]

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

Places shown: Canada

Added: 2006-08-30

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Convolvulus TricolorChristian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

The Three-Coloured Morning Glory. Systematic name—Convolvulus tri-color; Vlass V.—Penrandria; Order I.—Monogynia; Natural order—Convolvulacæ. Generic Character.—“Calyx five parted, with or without t [...]

Keywords: flowers, convolvulus, morning glory, colour, chromolithography

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-05-11

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

The first thing to say about this castle is that it’s pronounced Chumley. Really. The picture, in colour, shows the “castle” that was mostly built in the early part of the 19th Century, replacing an o [...]

Keywords: stately homes, castles, windows, towers, battlements, creeper, ivy, lawns, trees, turrets, colour

Places shown: Cholmondeley; Malpas; Cheshire; England

Added: 2023-02-24

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Earth Could Not AnswerThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1905)

XXXIII Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn; Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs reveal’d And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn. An old man [...]

Keywords: robes, beards, people, colour, candles, pictures of books

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-26

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The giants tore up treesArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

This painting was for The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1906). Two giants persenting as male, beardless, dressed in animal skins, barefoot, are each wielding a tree, roots and all, as a weapon, i [...]

Keywords: giants, ogres, trees, bare feet, colour, fantasy, illustrations for children, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

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Dark brown fantasy watercolour borderArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

This border of symbols, grapes, eyes, and dark daisies, was painted by Arthur Rackham to surround the battle of giants.

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders, foliated borders, spooky, full-page borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

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Goth skull with vines, colour versionTypo Ornamenty (1990)

I coloured in a line-drawing of a skull with vines coming out of its eye-socket; this was a lot of fun and i tried to use an æsthetic compatiblewit a heavy metal album cover, although the image long [...]

Keywords: goth, colour, gothic, skulls, death, vines, leaves, flowers, fantasy

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-03-20

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Drollery (margin-creatre), Lion with TabardThe Rylands Haggadah (1575)

A drollery, or grotesque, from the margin of folio 33b: a lion with a tabard and an almost-human face.

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, calligraphy, illumination, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-14

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Drollery (margin-creature), Blue RabbitThe Rylands Haggadah (1575)

A drollery, or grotesque, from the margin of folio 33b: a blue rabbit!

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, animals, calligraphy, illumination, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-14

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Drollery (margin-creature), Jester CentaurThe Rylands Haggadah (1575)

A drollery, or grotesque, from the margin of folio 33b: a centaur dressed as a jester.

Keywords: drolleries, mythical creatures, centaurs, calligraphy, illumination, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-10-14

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34. 34.—16th Century. Vatican.Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

Alphabet from a 16th Century manuscript in the Vatical Library. The letters are A B C D E F G H I K L M N P Q R S T Y, so that J, V, Y and Z are lacking. For J one would use J at that time, and U fo [...]

Keywords: initials, alphabets, brown, calligraphy, colour, typography

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-09-21

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(the Wreath, Crowns and Coronets)The Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-02-26

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