Items matching colour, book covers (results page 61)

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

Aramaic, written with the Hebrew alphabet including cantillation for marking vowels.

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, aramaic, hebrew, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2001-09-05

+ S K L

The Siren of the WildseaLegends of the Black Forest (1890)

Die Nixe des Wildsee’s The fairy is playing her harp, sitting in the form of an almost-nakd woman; a doe (a female deer) nestles beside her. But a snake crosses her foot, showing her sinister side. T [...]

Keywords: people, forests, trees, nudity, animals, mythical creatures, fairies, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-25

+ S K L

Plate 18.—Llanthony Abbey (Wallpaper Edition)History of Wales (1853)

A cropped and resized version of Plate 18 for use as a dekstop background image.

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, abbeys, churches, trees, ruins, colour

Places shown: Abergavenny; Monmouthshire; Wales

Added: 2004-04-07

+ S K L R N

Full-page brown and green border with ivy creeperBible Symbols (1908)

This border looks like it’s made of wooden rods with ivy growing around it. The illusion is made stronger by the brown and green colouring.

See also the Original black-and-white image.

Keywords: borders, ivy, rustic, full page, foliated borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-11-14

+ S K L

There Sleeps Titania (detail without the frame)The Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

This is the central image from There Sleeps Titania, with the architectural arch removed. There is also a magnified detail so you can see more clearly the fabulous technique of one of the greatest eng [...]

Keywords: shakespeare, titania, midsummer nights dream, people, fairies, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, forests, snails, soldiers, royalty, spooky, frames, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-22

+ S K L

Money Chest: The Treasurey (Coloured version)Bible Symbols (1908)

I coloured a copy of the Money Chest: The Treasury to make the pile of coins really gold (well, yellow) and the wood be brown.

Keywords: chests, boxes, money, wealth, coins, wood, gold, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-06-28

+ S K L

Mugo GlenThe Life of Mansie Wauch (1911)

Mungo Glen was a boy apprenticed to Mansie Wauch (the fictional Scottish tailor) at the age of fourteen. “Fro the days in which he had lain in his cradle, [Mungo Glen] had been brought up in a remote [...]

Keywords: people, children, colour

Places shown: Dalkeith; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-07

+ S K L R N

Merton CollegeOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by R. Kent Thomas. “It appears that [Queen’s College] was also anxious to pull down the chamber of King Henry V. This is a strange craze for destruction, that some time ago endangered [...]

Keywords: colleges, bridges, arches, people, colour

Places shown: Merton College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

+ S K L R N

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: 2003-03-23

+ S K L R N

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

+ S K L

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

+ S K L

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: 2018-09-15

+ S K L

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

+ S K L

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

+ S K L

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

+ S K L R N

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: 2005-08-07

+ S K L R N

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: 2006-09-17

+ S K L R N

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: 2014-08-11

+ S K L R N

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

+ S K L

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

+ S K L