Items matching colour (results page 52)

Suckley, Worcestershire.Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by E. A. Chadwick.

A brick cottage, with a half-timbered part. A girl kneels and another person, probably a child, seems to be talking with her. Lots of trees.

Keywords: cottages, houses, people, children, trees, colour, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Suckley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-10-07

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Singleton.Sussex Painted (1906)

The village of Singleton in Sussex was mentioned (according to this book) in the Domesday Book, and has (or had) a manor associated with it. In this bucolic painting we see ducks heading toward a pond [...]

Keywords: villages, buildings, churches, colour

Places shown: Singleton; Sussex; England

Added: 2011-02-24

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Conisby – The Bishoprick of Coventry and LitchfieldThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Coats of arms (family crests) for the following: Conisby Constable of Yorkshire Constable, another Cooper The worshipful Company of Cordwainers Corke Corpus Christi Colledge [college] in Oxford Courtn [...]

Keywords: page images, heraldry, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2005-05-05

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Stoke Pogis ChurchyardThe Circling Year (1870)

The churchyard at Stoke Pogis (today written Stoke Poges) was the setting for Thomas Grey’s famous Elegy. The book uses the illustration to accompany the following poem, which is by the Rev. William B [...]

Keywords: spooky, graveyards, cemetaries, graves, churches, moonlight, spires, towers, trees, forest, nighttime, rural, buildings, poetry, poems, colour

Places shown: Stoke Poges; Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2019-02-28

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116. Zodiac WheelLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The zodiac wheel together with the four quarters. It is supported by two angels and the text: “Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo! Facta est quasi vidua domina gentium!” (p. 116) That is from th [...]

Keywords: colour, christmas, zodiac, astrology, angels

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-16

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For the stranger, the fatherless, the widowThe Circling Year (1870)

This full-page illustration is enclosed in a green and gold border with gold stalks of wheat around an engraving of a woman in old-fashioned clothing harvesting wheat. Underneath the engraving in blac [...]

Keywords: harvest, gleaning, people, women, wheat, borders, biblical texts, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-06-04

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Zodiac wheel from page 116La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

I thought that this circlular arangement of the signs of the zodiac might look good on the front of a greetings card or calendar, or in a scrapbook (or maybe I just don’t understand scrapbooking?) so [...]

Keywords: zodiac, christmas, astrology, astrology, planets, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-16

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Cowdry – The worshipful Company of CurriersThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Coats of arms (family crests) for the following:

Cowdry
Cowpen
Cradock
Cragg
Crispe of London
Croke
Crolly
Crowch of Hartfordshire
Crowly
The worshipful Company of Curriers

Keywords: page images, heraldry, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2005-05-05

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Dade of Norfolk – Delabere (vulg. Dollabe) of GloucestershireThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Coats of arms (family crests) for the following: Dade of Norfolk Dammant of Suffolk Dancey of Berkshire (But here the Dragon is not cut well) Dand Daniel of York Dannet Danvers of York The Rt. Hon. Ro [...]

Keywords: page images, heraldry, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2005-05-05

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Ornate blue and gold full-page borderBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

A sumptuous and ornate medieval hand-drawn full-page frame or cartouch from this early sixteenth-century book of hours. Gem-encrusted golden vases and styilized leaves are on a solid blue background. [...]

Keywords: borders, christmas, xmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-12-01

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Miniature painting of a woman reading a music bookBook of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533)

A Mediæval (OK, Medieval in America) miniature painting taken from a Latin book of hours. The picture shows a richly-dressed woman reading from a book, seemingly of music; she also holds a peacock fe [...]

Keywords: colour, people, books, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-13

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Gatehouse, Battle Abbey (wallpaper version)Sussex Painted (1906)

Cropped version of Gatehouse, Battle Abbey intended for use as a computer desktop background or wallpaper; I cropped the image so it’s 1600x1200 pixels, and also made 1024x768, 800x600 and 640x480 ver [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, abbeys, towers, entrances, trees, people, colour

Places shown: Battle; Sussex; England

Added: 2005-09-02

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Gatehouse, Battle Abbey.Sussex Painted (1906)

The abbey at Battle commemorates the Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror defeated King Harold on 14th October, 1066, to become the King of England. The buildings were used as a school fr [...]

Keywords: abbeys, towers, entrances, trees, people, colour

Places shown: Battle; Sussex; England

Added: 2005-09-02

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Delahay; He beareth Argent, a Star – Dixwell of KentThe Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

Coats of arms (family crests) for the following: Delahay; He beareth Argent, a Star of sixteen Points Gules. When a Star has more than six Points, you must take Care to mention their Number. Delaluna [...]

Keywords: page images, heraldry, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2005-05-05

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(05: JPEG image showing page texture)Oratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2000-05-16

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St. Anthony At the CityEngravings on Metal by Albrecht Duerer

The city here may be Padua in Italy, or it could be Nurenberg, now in Germany.

Keywords: cities, people, religion, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 1999-10-28

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Gothic WindowCharles Meryon (1923)

La Galerie de Nôtre-Dame in Paris (1853) Another picture by Meryon with crows in it, and gothic architecture, and also use of surface tone (background not completely white) to add atmosphere, even tho [...]

Keywords: windows, gothic architecture, tracery, crows, birds, gothic, goth, columns, cathedras, colour

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2025-09-07

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Page image, border and poemAn Old Sweetheart of Mine (1902)

The rare Habanas in their box,     or gaunt churchwarden-stem That often wags, above the jar,     derisively at them. (p. 12) The border has vine leaves and grapes. It is in a very pale pink with yell [...]

Keywords: borders, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-05-06

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Pink Floriated BorderAn Old Sweetheart of Mine (1902)

This beautiful and quaint border was around a single verse of a poem in the children’s book.

Border with poem

Floriated border without the words

Grey version of the leafy border

Keywords: borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-05-06

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Portrait of Anna HeyseJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

Born Anna Schubart, the subject of this picture married Paul Heyse, the german poet, in 1867. Franz von Lenbach was a friend of Paul, and painted the picture that inspired this (somewhat insipid) repr [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, women, lips, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-11-20

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