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Newstead AbbeyPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A partly-ruined romantic gothic mansion beside a lake with a fountain. NEWSTEAD ABBEY. NEAR MANSFIELD, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—WEBB. Newstead Abbey, “one of the finest specimens in existence of those quaint [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, houses, buildings, lakes, water, windows, trees, colour

Places shown: Newstead; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2015-07-04

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Peter and the Balloon BirdThe Gnome King of Oz (1927)

“The stem of the balloon to which he clung had turned to a strong stiff leg, while the balloon itself had expanded into a plump, green, balloon bird. It careened through the air without any motion of [...]

Keywords: people, children, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-01-08

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Page 7: The Mysterious Coins.Conjuring Tricks (1890)

Presumably these were coins that were silver on one side and gold on the other; I don’t think I ever saw them. Or maybe they were cardboard discs.

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-06-03

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02 Classes LinguarumOratio 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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The God and the ReedDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

Pan, shown in this painting as a bearded and shirtless man with the legs of a goat, a satyr, sits back on a riverbank laughing; he holds a flute. In the river we see water-lillies and in the backgroun [...]

Keywords: art, mythical creatures, gods, summer, music, goats, men, people, trees, rivers, water, flowers, water lillies, dandelions, grass, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-10-02

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Panik! Panik!Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

Everyone in the dance hall runs screaming, fleeing for their lives, when the medusa demon appears! Note, this was a double-page spread in issue 8 of Jugend Magazine, and the line down the middle is wh [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, medusa, fear, crowds, panic, mythological creatures, screaming, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-13

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Panik! Detail: MedusaJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

Medusa has snakes for hair and don’t look, Medusa’s gaze will turn you to stone!

This is a detail from Panik! Panik!M painted orange.

Keywords: mythical creatures, medusa, colour, snakes, faces, horror, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-16

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Magdalen College From the CherwellOxford (1910)

Magdalen Tower, rising 150 feet in exquisite proportion, and standing just where the Cherwell is spanned by the well-known bridge, is in the opinion of many the fairest sight in Oxford. [p. 9]

Keywords: towers, water, bridges, churches, colour, colleges, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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A Christmas-Box From ChinaModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

A family in Germany have received a box of Christmas gifts from China in this coloured engraving from 1901. The mother is wearing (i think) a traditional embroidered xiuhe dress or shirt/blouse or jac [...]

Keywords: xmas, christmas, gifts, family, surprise, trees, ornaments, people, men, women, children, costumes, buddha, demons, mythological creatures, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-07-24

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In the story-books.A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

Summer fading, winter comes— Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books.   Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the fl [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, winter, comfort, reading, books, windows, snow, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-21

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Dress of the Commonality, Time of Charles I. A.D. 1630.The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

A colour engraving showing a cluster of people coming out of the door of a church, presumably after a service. They may be the common people but these are not working clothes. The man in the foregroun [...]

Keywords: costumes, colour, people, men, women, beards, arches, hats, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-05-04

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Stirling CastleIn Search of Scotland (1929)

I paused on a hill and looked down on the plain of Stirling. It was early evening and the mists were rising. The rock on which the Castle stands was blue-black against the grey of the fields, the mig [...]

Keywords: castles, views, colour

Places shown: Stirling; Storling; Scotland

Added: 2008-08-02

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Green and brown border with vines and birdThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This border was taken from “Hours of the Virgin” (Harl. 2,936). The book is attributed to the Master of Martainville and includes 24 miniatures with foliate borders (such as this one) in colours and g [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, birds, vines, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-29

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Calligraphic initial leter TLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

This decorative initial “T” was used a drop cap. It has been drawn in a mediaeval calligraphic style, and was printed in a reddish-yellow ink, a sort of gold colour. I cannot say for certain whether [...]

Keywords: initials, lettert, yellow, gold, colour, calligraphy

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-18

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Spirit Angels of PeaceLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

And I seemed to look towards Heaven, and to behold a multitude of angels who were returning upwards, having before them an exceedingly white cloud: and these angels were singing together gloriously, a [...]

Keywords: angels, bare feet, religion, christmas, windows, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-12-17

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Christchurch CollegeOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

Staircase to the hall at Christchurch College, Oxford
From an Etching by A. Brunet-Dubaines.

Keywords: stairs, interiors, vaulting, people, colleges, colour

Places shown: Christchurch College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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Whitley CourtPicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

Witley Court was badly damaged by a fire in 1937, some 60 years after this picture was made. The description in the book tries hard, i think, to hide the writer’s disdain for the self-made. WHITLEY CO [...]

Keywords: manors, stately homes, victorian excess, opunlence, columns, houses, parks, colour

Places shown: Witley Court; Great Witley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2020-11-01

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Plate 85b.—Fifteenth Century No. 15 (Borders)The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Various borders and corners from a Book of Hours from the 15th century. I have scanned it in two parts; this is part two (part one is not yet online). I have separated out some of the elements and cle [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, ornaments, decorative elements

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-13

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Horizontal border with flowers, Item 15 from Plate 85The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Fifteenth century horizontal floral border from Plate 85. I have edited it a little so that it more or less joins on to itself, to make a longer line.

Keywords: borders, colour, decorative elements

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-13

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Border with corner, Item 17 from Plate 85The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Fifteenth century vertical floral border with corner and horizontal segment, from Plate 85.

Keywords: borders, corners, colour, decorative elements

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-13

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