Items matching colour, book covers (results page 66)

Bemersyde HouseThe Scott Country (1920)

“This Bemerside Hill is a ‘Mount of vision’ from which all the chief shrines and high places of the Scott Country can be surveyed, at least with the mind’s eye. Abbortsford itself, if not in actual vi [...]

Keywords: houses, buildings, flowers, gardens, trees, colour

Places shown: St Boswells; Berwickshire; Scotland

Added: 2005-09-19

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The Old Clarendon Building, Broad StreetOxford (1910)

...the Clarendon Building with its lofty pillared porch, where once the University Press was housed. [p. 30]

Keywords: buildings, towns, colour, roads, carts, streets

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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26: Melindana, AbessinorumOratio 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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Coity Castle, GlamorganshireHistory of Wales (1853)

A wood-engraving of the ruins of Coity Castle, complete with a young woman carrying a basket and a spade, perhaps growing vegetables in the former courtyard! The castle does not appear to be mentioned [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers, people, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Bridgend; Glamorganshire; Wales

Added: 2008-09-28

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Guy’s Cliffe, WarwickWarwick and Leamington (1920)

“The Coventry road to Guy’s Cliffe is a royal and a literary road. Kings, queens, princes, poets, painters and authors have trodden it; also that luckless King’s favourite, Piers Gaveston, whose come [...]

Keywords: manors, castles, water, trees, colour

Places shown: Guy’s Cliffe; Warwick; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-12

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Zeus and EuropaModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XIV (1900)

Here the Greek God Zeus appears to Europa as a beautiful and inspiring bull. She falls in love, and he takes her off and does naughty things to her. The print that i scanned here is 470×297mm (approx. [...]

Keywords: greek mythology, nudity, people, women, zeus, europa, beaches, seaside, bare feet, cattle, water, sand, waves, ancient greece, greek gods, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-07-01

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Farmer and his Wife, Ybbstal ValleyDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

The picture shows a farmer and his wife wearing (one assumes) clothing that was typical for such people in the 1880s in the Ybbstal Valley in Austria. I think, however, that these are not their workin [...]

Keywords: people, farming, costumes, men, women, boots, hats, dresses, colour

Places shown: Ybbstal; Austria

Added: 2014-05-14

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The ArchdruidParis Avant l’Histoire (1885)

The Archdruid, or chief druid, is depicted in this engraving standing near a stone monolith and holding herbs and a curved knife for harvesting plants. He is bearded and has perhaps a wreath of oak le [...]

Keywords: druids, people, religion, costumes, bare feet, beards, men, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-02-15

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PsalterThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

Part of a page from Fust & Schoiffer’s second Psalter. A.D. 1459. Johann Fust of Mainz was one of the earliest German printers; Peter Schoiffer, or Peter Schoffer, was his son-in-law. They set up a p [...]

Keywords: music, printing, history of printing, typography, christmas, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-16

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27: MalabaricaOratio 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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XXXIV.—Monument in the Cemetary of Père Lachaise, Paris.Monumental Architecture (1910)

Monumental architecture. XXXIV.—Monument in the Cemetary of Père Lachaise, Paris. Albert Bartholomé, sculptor. A stone entranceway is marked Aux Morts, which is, To Death; we see a naked man and a nak [...]

Keywords: sculpture, statuary, carving, monuments, nudity, bare feet, death, architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-11

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27, Malabarica, 3.5MByte scanOratio 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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A Good YearJugend [German art magazine] (1903)

Eingutes Jahr A workman with a peaked cap, waistcoat or vest over a long-sleeved shirt, long trousers tucked into tall leather boots, stands on the second rung of a ladder picking apples that are gro [...]

Keywords: apples, art nouveau, people, fruit, picking, ladders, windows, shutters, workers, workmen, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-09-11

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On the Lower RhineJugend [German art magazine] (1903)

On the top a chimney of a mediæval house or castle, with its steep tiled roof, suttered windows, rain gutters, and a dome, we see a large bird’s nest, a stork’s breeding-place, with one stork standing [...]

Keywords: birds, storks, castles, roofs, roofs, views, domes, windows, rivers, water, colour

Places shown: Lower Rhine; Germany

Added: 2018-12-04

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Gentiana crinita [The Fringed Gentian]Christian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

The Fringed Gentian, Gentiana Crinita

Keywords: flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-11

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28: BrachmanicaOratio 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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PersinaJugend [German art magazine] (1903)

A naked woman stands in a pond, her hands behind her head adjusting her long flowing hair, which reaches almost to her knees and covers her crotch modestly. There are yellow flowers, and she stands at [...]

Keywords: people, women, nudity, hair, water, mythological creatures, fairies, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-12-04

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Magdalan Bridge and TowerOxford (1910)

Magdalan 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 fariest sight in Oxford. [p. 9]

Keywords: bridges, towers, churches, water, boats, flowers, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Melrose Abbey: Choir and North TranseptThe Scott Country (1920)

“Melrose—“the light of the land, the abode of saints, the grave of monarchs” – is a glorious fragment, more beautiful, perhaps in detail than in general effect, in ornament than in design; and memorab [...]

Keywords: abbeys, ruins, windows, arches, trees, colour

Places shown: Melrose; Roxburghshire; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-20

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ArielThe Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

C. W. SHARPE, SCULPT.; H J. TOWNSEND, PINXT. Ariel, the spirit of wind, is bound to serve Prospero, in Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest,” and is here drawn as a miniature naked winged boy lying on the [...]

Keywords: shakespeare, the tempets, as you like it, ariel, nudity, cherubs, bare feet, fairies, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-07-19

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