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

WENTWORTH HOUSENear Rotherham, Yorkshire. Earl FitzWilliam. This grand seat of one of our greatest English families, is most beautifully situated in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, four miles from “Fair [...]

Keywords: manors, houses, buildings, trees, colour, deer, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, widescreen

Places shown: Rotherham; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2013-12-31

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Plate 65.—Fourteenth Century No. 23.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

XVI. CENTURY, No. 23. Nos. 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 13, and 14, from Lans. 463; Nos. 3, 5, and 6, from Cott. Lib. B VIII. and Nos. 8, 10, 11, and 12, from Add. 12,009. Not a complete alphabet, but some very bea [...]

Keywords: initials, calligraphy, red, blue, colour, typography, alphabets

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-07-19

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Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter O from Plate 65The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A detail from Plate 65 with just the decorative initial letter O.

O, M, A, D, U or V, I or J, L.

Keywords: initials, lettero, lettering, calligraphy, red, blue, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-14

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Fourteenth Century Initial Letter M from Plate 65The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A calligraphic decorative letter “M” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book.

Keywords: initials, letterm, lettering, calligraphy, calligraphy, red, blue, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-11

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Fourteenth Century Initial Letter A from Plate 65The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A red and blue calligraphic decorative letter “A” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book. The squiggles would have gone into the left margin. I’ve made lots of sizes to make it [...]

Keywords: initials, lettera, lettering, calligraphy, red, blue, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-11

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Fourteenth Century Initial Letter D from Plate 65The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A red and blue calligraphic decorative letter “D” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book. The squiggles would have gone into the left margin. I’ve made fewer sizes than usual b [...]

Keywords: initials, letterd, lettering, calligraphy, red, blue, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-07

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Fourteenth Century Initial Letter U or V from Plate 65The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A red and blue calligraphic decorative letter “U” or “V” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book. The squiggles would have gone into the left margin. Remember to link back here i [...]

Keywords: initials, letteru, letterv, lettering, calligraphy, red, blue, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-01-12

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Fourteenth Century Initial Letter I or J from Plate 65The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A red and blue calligraphic decorative letter “I” or “J” from a 14th century manuscript, reproduced in this 1860 book. The squiggles would have gone into the left margin. Remember to link back here i [...]

Keywords: initials, letteri, letterj, lettering, calligraphy, red, blue, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-20

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Green and Gold caligraphic/Uncial Capital GAlphabets & Numbers of the Middle Ages (1845)

A version of the majiscule, or capital, “G” here that I have coloured gold and green, with a simulated cloth background, using a Free (libre,open source) image editing program called GIMP. A B C D E F [...]

Keywords: letterg, initials, calligraphy, samples, gallery, green, gold, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-22

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Clip-art: calligraphic decorative initial capital letter L from Plate 65The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A detail from Plate 65 with just the decorative initial letter L. I also made a sample Web page using the decorative initial so you can get an idea of how to use it with HTML and CSS. O, M, A, D, U or [...]

Keywords: initials, letterl, calligraphy, lettering, red, blue, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-24

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pages 64, 65: page imageEccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

A double-page spread from the book.

Keywords: page images, colour, typography

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-15

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Get Up and Bar the DoorSome British Ballads (1919)

The house-wife carries a hot pan of stew by the handle, a cat sits on the hearth by, one assumes, the fire, and the husband looks to his wife even as she in turn looks to the door. It fell about the [...]

Keywords: people, interiors, cottages, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-09-22

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Viola tricolour—three coloured VioletChristian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

“The Pansie, Or Three-Coloured Violet [...] Continued high cultivation makes an astonishing change in this pretty little plant. By it the blossoms are greatly enlarged, and the hues become more varied [...]

Keywords: flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-05

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67. Brympton D’Evercy, Somerset.The Growth of the English House (1909)

Bay Windows (late 15th century). I couldn’t find anything much about the stately home and priest house that I suspect is pictured here. If you want to visit, there is a local place to stay.

Keywords: manors, windows, creeper, entrances, colour

Places shown: Brympton D’Evercy; Somerset; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Ichabod Crane’s GoblineChild Classics of Prose (1893)

A pale-skinned winged goblin wih long spindly legs and arms and a cane over its shoulder at the end of which is a glowing object, perhapsa lantern. In the distant background is a black-caped person pe [...]

Keywords: goblines, supernatural, occult, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, wings, fairies, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-07-14

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Red Dragon on Blue BackgroundThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This dragon, coloured red on a blue background, was taken from a fourteenth century decorative initial; it was drawn rather in the style of a drollery, the strange creatures used to illustrate mediæva [...]

Keywords: dragons, mythical creatures, colour, drolleries

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-02-22

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Fourteenth-Century illuminated D with saintThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This illuminated initial letter “D” is from the 1300s (14th century); it’s a red and blue calligraphic capital letter, with a picture of an unidentified female saint inside (as indicated by the gold h [...]

Keywords: letterd, initials, inhabited initials, calligraphy, red, blue, gold, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-08-22

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Saint with bookThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A 14th century drawing of a saint (I think) or martry, with a book in one hand.

Taken from a decorative initial D.

Keywords: saints, religion, pictures of books, books, people, drawings, art, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-08-22

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Vintage Medieval Daisy SketchThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

These two daisies with gold-leaf middles and squiggly reddish-brown stems were decorations on an illuminated capital D from a choirbook from the 1300s.

Keywords: flowers, red, gold, daisies, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-08-22

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Medieval Decorative Initial Capital “D”The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This mediaeval calligraphic initial “D” was originally decorated with filligree and gold and had a saint in the middle; the simplified version here is extracted to be more useful. Original illuminated [...]

Keywords: letterd, initials, calligraphy, colour, red, blue

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-08-23

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