Items matching colour (results page 63)

Harlech CastleCastles (1926)

Ground Plan

I found another one by Shawn Brown here with more detail and a PDF version.

Keywords: castles, plans, colour

Places shown: Harlech; Gwynedd; Wales

Added: 2004-03-04

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Ladies at the Roman PalaceThe Idler (1797)

The ladies and the ruined temple illustrate Essay XXI (21) in William Shenstone’s Essays on Men and Manners (1797): I was, methought, transported into a winding valley, on each side of whose area, so [...]

Keywords: people, costumes, temples, columns, buildings, bare feet, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-15

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Cartouche or Oval Frame With Wreath and BricksThe Idler (1797)

This oval frame surrounded a classical scene illustrating an essay; the frame includes a basket of flowers and a wreath, and has a bricks-and-mortar masonry background in black and white, making an un [...]

Keywords: borders, cartici, frames, wreaths, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-14

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15: AmharicaOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2001-09-05

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The Nativity (1504)Engravings on Metal by Albrecht Duerer

One of a number of pictures that Albrecht Dürer [Duerer] made of the Nativity, i.e. the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, a significant religious event to people of the Christian religion. The birth here t [...]

Keywords: christmas, religion, buildings, people, colour

Places shown: Bethlehem; Palestine

Added: 2006-11-12

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The Prince With the Golden Hand (hand-coloured version)Slavonic Fairy Tales (1896)

As the prince gazed upon the splendid building the princess leaned out of one of the windows, and seeing him light shone from her sparkling eyes, her lovely hair floated in the wind, and the scent [...]

Keywords: colour, romance, people, royalty, illustrations for children, borders, interiors, castles, fantasy

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-11

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Arched textured border from Paul and Virginia in the ForestThe Table Book of Art (1880)

This arched border was used to surround an engraving of a painting of Paul and Virginia. The engraving uses horizontal lines to achieve a textured effect, and would reproduce well.

Keywords: full-page borders, borders, colour, arches

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-12-31

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Field WorkerLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

This field worker is busy harvesting; he is a detail from a much larger image i plan to post separately. He wears a straw boater or similar hat, a waistcoat, a long-sleeved shirt, long trousers and i [...]

Keywords: men, people, workers, hats, baskets, harvest, summer, standing, waistcoats, standing, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-09-01

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Plate XV.—Anatomy.Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

A naked man is shown, without his skin, so that the muscles can be seen, in order to teach anatomy. The muscles immediately under the common teguments on the anterior part of the body, are represeted [...]

Keywords: anatomy, diagrams, spooky, nudity, bare feet, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-22

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Chirk CastleCastles (1926)

The Courtyard.

Keywords: castles, manors, windows, doors, towers, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Chirk; Denbighshire; Wales

Added: 2004-03-04

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Plate XVIII.—Stylized Chinese DragonThe Art of Decorative Design (1862)

I think only the upper part is intended to be a monster. However, I did not find a description of the lower part.

Keywords: dragons, monsters, mythical creatures, abstract, patterns, chinese dragons, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-01-14

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A Day With Puffington’s HoundsMr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour (1856)

A happy hunter beams as he holds up a dead rabbit. The rabbit doesn’t look happy. Men in red coats, white trousers and riding hats, horses, dogs.

Keywords: sports, horses, dogs, hunting, aristocracy, cartoons, sketches, drawings, humour, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-07-03

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King’s College Chapel, Cambridge.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Sixteenth-Century chapel at King’s College in Cambridge University is famous not only for its music but also for its fabulous architecture. This 1845 engraving shows not only the amazing vaulted s [...]

Keywords: colour, interiors, chapels, architecture, windows, columns, religion, valuting, ceilings

Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2014-01-31

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Chapel of St. John’s College, CambridgeOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The chapel is one of the original structures of St. John’s College, the foundation-charter of which is dated April 9, 1511; it forms a part of the east court, or first court, which was completed in 15 [...]

Keywords: interiors, chapels, churches, christianity, windows, colour

Places shown: St. John’s College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2025-12-16

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16: ArabicaOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2001-09-05

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Plate 23.—Llanthony Abbey.History of Wales (1853)

This engraving shows the ruins of Llanthony Priory in Wales.

I have left the sepia tint from the old ink and paper.

Keywords: ruins, churches, abbeys, arches, sheep, animals, people, sepia, widescreen, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Abergavenny; Monmouthshire; Wales

Added: 2015-01-17

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Silent they stoodRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

“Silent they stood, each gazing on the dust Of kindred;—on the well-beloved ones Whom they should never lie beside in slumber.” “The Exiles of Glen Oona.”—Robert Buchanan. [picture] By William Small. [...]

Keywords: people, death, music, musical instruments, dogs, gravestones, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-26

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Hall of Christ Church College OxfordOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Christchurch, you have no doubt heard, is the richest, most magnificent, and most celebrated of all the collegiate establishments of Oxford. It is the especial resort of the sons of the richest gentr [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, interiors, people, ceilings

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-11-06

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Bab En NasrPictureseque Egypt Vol I (1878)

Bab En Nasr, or Bab El-Nasr, is the ancient Victory Gate of Cairo, built around 1090 and rebuilt in 1212. It is the North Gate to the city. Bab El-Fotouh, The West Gate The engraving is taken from an [...]

Keywords: towers, gates, ancient egypt, camels, people, ruins, colour

Places shown: Cairo; Egypt

Added: 2010-11-22

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Lines and Leaves Page BorderSpécimen général de la Fonderie Amsterdam (1915)

This is a demonstration of how to use a repeating leaf ornament to make a border by combining it with metal rules (to draw straight lines) and with what I take to be mushrooms in the corners. The repr [...]

Keywords: borders, leaves, colour, green, foliated borders, full-page borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-03-11

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