Items matching colour (results page 38)

61. Yarrow seedFarm Weeds (1906)

This is a detail from the picture of seeds of various Canadian farm weeds showing the seeds of a single plant, Yarrow.

Keywords: colour, weeds, plants, seeds

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-31

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79. Quack SeedsFarm Weeds (1906)

This is a detail from the picture of seeds of various Canadian farm weeds showing the seeds of a single plant, Quack Seeds.

Keywords: colour, weeds, plants, seeds

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-31

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56.—Seed Index 4.Farm Weeds (1906)

This is the fourth and last page of the section at the back of the book showing the seeds of the various farm weeds. The individual seed illustrations are available as separate pictures as follows: Y [...]

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-31

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Yellow IrisFamiliar Wild Flowers (1906)

A yellow flower with long thin leaves of green tinged with red at their pointed tips. Among the many beautiful flowers that fringe our rivers, the yellow iris, the plant fugured in the present plate, [...]

Keywords: flowers, botanical illustrations, iris, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-03-03

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Mount EdgcombePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 2 (1870)

Mount Edgcombe House was built in the middle of the sixteenth century, but it was badly damaged by bombs in World War II. In 1971 the (then) Earl sold the new-ly-restored estate to the county council, [...]

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

Places shown: Mount Edgcumbe House and Country Park; Cremyll; Torpoint; Cornwall; England

Added: 2025-04-12

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Persion ceramic tile border: flowers and vines, bright versionL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This is a more brightly coloured version of the Persian ceramic tile full-page border. Note that the brightness of the dark blue background may vary as the image is resized or sharpened.

Keywords: full-page borders, borders, flowers, leaves, vines, colour, blue, floriated borders, green

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-06

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Fig. 57. No. 6.—Persian Ceramic Tile BorderL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This full-page border design is taken from ancient persian ceramic building tiles. The original tiles go from the centre of one rosette to the next, and are 10 inches (25cm) from joint to joint. There [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, floriated borders, flowers, vines, leaves, blue, green, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-06

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Xerxes orders the sea to be punishedLa Civilizacion (1881)

King Xerxes of Persia is shown here just after a storm destroyed the beginnings of a bridge he’d ordered to be built in order to send his army to conquor Greece. The following extract is from a transl [...]

Keywords: people, kings, xerxes, beards, men, soldiers, waves, water, rocks, colour, ancient persia, ancient greece, wars, illustrations for children

Places shown: Hellespont; Dardanelles; Turkey

Added: 2018-11-05

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Boss, Nave, LincolnOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I took th woodcut of the boss snd coloured it as it might (or might not) have been painted.

Keywords: colour, art, carving, ornaments, architecture

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2011-04-27

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Page 5: The Wonderful Box TrickConjuring Tricks (1890)

Again there is an inner compartment, in this case one that slides so it can be under one or other door (or partway inbetween if you didn’t practise enough).

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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Collectores versionum Orationis Dominicæ: contributorsOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2000-09-18

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SnowshillCotswold Country (1939)

The caption mentions that there was not enough money to finish the church tower, and so it was capped with grey slate. Today Snowshill is known for the manor-house, which is now run by the National Tr [...]

Keywords: old photographs, churches, views, colour

Places shown: Snowshill; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2008-12-16

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Plate 6.—Fall of the Teify.History of Wales (1853)

Henry G. Gastineau painted this waterfall on the River Teify in 1832.

Samuel Fisher made an engraving based on this painting, although I am not sure if he did this version.

Keywords: rivers, trees, water, waterfalls, colour

Places shown: Cenarth; Cardiganshire; Wales

Added: 2003-10-26

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When She Saw Tinyboy she hid her face shyly in her curlsThe Sun’s Babies (1910)

“Let us see if anyone is at home here,” said the Butterfly, stopping at a large pink rose. “Come out, Rose-lady!” she called, and out came the prettiest little lady you ever saw. She was dressed in so [...]

Keywords: fairies, wings, mythological creatures, illustrations for children, trees, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-25

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Charlecote.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

Today, Charlecote Park is run by the National Trust; it is described there are a 16th century manor, although there had probably been a house there for some five hundred or more years. This picture, m [...]

Keywords: manors, buildings, houses, tudor architecture, arches, windows, clocks, colour

Places shown: Wellesbourne; Stratford-on-Avon; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2009-12-04

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Lured with hope of some Diviner DrinkThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1905)

“LX The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord, That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword. LX1 Why, be this Juice th [...]

Keywords: colour, children, bare feet, nudity, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-28

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Indian Civet, Fossa, GenetA History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1851)

The original caption for this plate was, 1. Zibet. 2. Fossane. 3. Malacca Genet. A Zibet is another name for a civet, and n particular the Indian civet cat. Fossane is another kind of civet, likely a [...]

Keywords: aniamnls, civets, genets, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-05-02

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63.—Bronze Well-Head by Alberghetti—Courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale.Venice (1907)

“Marco tells of magnificent feasts made by the Great Kaan on his birthday and on New Year’s Day. He delights in stories of the chase within the domain of Cublay’s palace of Chandu (perhaps the Xanadu [...]

Keywords: statuary, fountains, courtyards, architecture, buildings, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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John Knox’s House, High StreetEdinburgh (1912)

“To the left of the square stone water-conduit, which occupies the centre of the picture, is seen the west front of this picturesque structure, and still farther to the left a “fore-stair” of a buildi [...]

Keywords: colour, buildings, houses, people, streets

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-05-31

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Frightened Boy At BedtimeA Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed. The picture shows a small frightened boy going to bed carrying a candle to fend off the gloom. North-west Passage 1. Good-night Then [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, fear, candles, shadows, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-07-31

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