Items matching colour, book covers (results page 61)

Netley AbbeyMemorials of Hampshire. (1906)

“The site of Netley Abbey indeed, like that of all the abbeys of the Cistercian Order, is choice, and was selected by the founders for various reasons. A spot remote from towns, quiet and peaceful, o [...]

Keywords: ruins, windows, arches, colour

Places shown: Netley; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-03-22

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Charles Dickens: Letter Written the Day before His DeathUniversal Classic Manuscripts Vol II (1901)

Charles Dickens. Letter, written on the day before his death, to Charles Kent, appointing to meet him on the morrow; Gad’s Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, 8 June, 1870. holograph. [Add. MS. [...]

Keywords: letters, handwriting, fac similes, dickens, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-09-27

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12: Syriaca, Charactere vulgatoOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, arabic, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2001-09-05

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Enjoyment of LifeJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

This view of a verdant green meadow with a tree and a stream, a blue sky, and a scantily-clad and mostly topless woman enjoying the sheer exuberance of Spring, illustrated a verse from a poem by the f [...]

Keywords: meadows, green, streams, water, trees, springtime, spring, life, joi de vivre, people, women, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2018-09-14

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Kullervo as a BoyJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

Kullervo is a character from the Finnish epic poem, the Kalevala. Here he is shown as a naked boy, fair-haired and strong, in a forest, drawing pictures on the trunk of an oak tree; there are cows in [...]

Keywords: bous, nudity, bare feet, illustrations for children, mythology, nature, drawing, sketches, people, trees, animals, cows, colour

Places shown: Finland

Added: 2018-09-16

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Le Baiser (The Kiss)Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

In this orange and black duotone print, a man wispers into the ear of a slghtly younger woman, or maybe kisses her ear or even nibbles on it a bit, as one does. A poem beneath it is attributed to some [...]

Keywords: kisses, romance, people, men, women, couples, affection, love, duitones, hair, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-29

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Plate XXVII. Hereford Cathedral.The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

South West View with Cloisters.“At Hereford, where the present tower was built in the fourteenth century, there was also, as in some large monastic churches, a tall tower above the western bay of the [...]

Keywords: churches, people, towers, windows, backgrounds, cathedrals, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Hereford; Herefordshire; England

Added: 2004-06-01

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Plate XXVI: Lincoln Cathedral. West Front.The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

The See of Lincoln was formed in AD 678, but the first cathedral was destroyed in an earthquake in 1185. The present building dates from between AD 1255 and AD 1300, with late Normon, Lancet-Pointed a [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, people, churches, towers, colour

Places shown: Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2005-08-06

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BloisCathedral Cities of France (1907)

The spires of Blois cathedral are seen across the River Loire. “To most travellers in France the town of Blois is associated with a château rather than with a cathedral; it is oneof a group or towns k [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, views, rivers, water, cathedrals, spires, colour

Places shown: Blois; Loir-et-Cher; France

Added: 2006-09-16

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Cloisters in Santa Scholastica, SubiacoVenice (1907)

One of the three cloisters in this Benedictine monastery; it was built by Abbot Lando in 1235, and is decorated on the vault with mosaic work by the Cosmati. See page 36 and interleaf, page 82. Page [...]

Keywords: cloisters, interiors, sunlight, people, windows, pillars, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Subiaco; San Lorenzo; Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-08-10

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1. The Seal of BaalThe Book of Ceremonical magic: A Complete Grimoire (1911)

I. Baal, a king ruling in the East, who imparts invisibility and wisdom. He appears with a human head, or with that of a toad or cat[1], but sometimes with all at once. He speaks with a hoarse voice [ [...]

Keywords: symbols, occult, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-06-13

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2. The Seal of AgaresThe Book of Ceremonical magic: A Complete Grimoire (1911)

II. Agares, a duke ruling in the East, who appears in the form of a comely old man, ambling upon a crocodile and carrying a goshawk on his wrist. He makes those who run stand still, brings back runa [...]

Keywords: symbols, occult, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-06-13

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6. The Seal of Valefor.The Book of Ceremonical magic: A Complete Grimoire (1911)

VI. Valefor [6], a powerful duke, appearing as a many-headed lion [7]. He leads those with whom he is familiar into theft. Note 6: Or Malaphar. Note 7: With the head of a hunter or a thief, says Wier [...]

Keywords: symbols, occult, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-06-13

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13: CopticaOratio 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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Branxholm TowerThe Scott Country (1920)

“It was from Branxholm, on the Teviot above Hawick, that another Scott of the name – generation after generation were Walters – rode forth to rescue ‘Kinmount Willie’ from prison in Carlisle. The Min [...]

Keywords: colour, castles, towers, water, trees

Places shown: Hawick; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2004-03-15

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Iffley MillOxford (1910)

“Close by [Christ Church] meadow the college barges line the banks of the Isis, and then come other meadows on either side – meadows nameless and indignified by pageantry, but sacred to Oxford’s speci [...]

Keywords: trees, water, grass, colour, mills

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Land of the Semites. Desert and Caravan.Great Races of Mankind Vol III (1893)

This full-page colour illustration is opposite to the chapter opening for Part III, Semites and Hamites, Book XIV, The Aramæns, Chapter 102, The Old Asshurites.

Keywords: views, deserts, mountains, people, camels, colour

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2024-08-24

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Cedars of LebanonThe Land and the Book (1894)

A group of camels and some humans are at the edge of a forest of mighty cedar trees; in the far distance are some snow-capped mountains.

Keywords: trees, cedar trees, people, camels, forests, mountains, spears, colour

Places shown: Lebanon

Added: 2021-01-11

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Old Chained BibleMemorials of Hampshire. (1906)

The Knight Hospitaller’s Tomb and Old Chained Bible at North Baddesley Church. The bible dates from 1620 and was donated to the church in 1702. The tomb is now in the chancel of the church. (From a [...]

Keywords: books, pictures of books, gravestones, tombs, interiors, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: North Baddesley; Hampshire; England

Added: 2003-09-17

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Slaves for the HaremLa Civilizacion 3 (1881)

Cautivas Para El Harem Captives for the Harem. This picture shows two young women with their wrists bound being forced to walk alongside a man with beard and headdress (perhaps a turban) who is riding [...]

Keywords: slavers, slaves, slavery, captovoty, horses, people, spears, weapons, eunuchs, turbans, beards, men, women, boys, colour

Places shown: unknown

Added: 2021-03-06

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