Items matching colour, book covers (results page 67)

Corner decoration: brown owl with green leaves and treeThe Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

I made a coloured version of the owl in the corner of the page.

Keywords: owls, birds, borders, nature, leaves, ornaments, decorative elements, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-17

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29: SinicaOratio 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 Leam at LeamingtonWarwick and Leamington (1920)

“For from leafy Leamington every old, historic, and romantic spot in the whole of Shakeslpeare’s classic land can be visited and inspected in a day’s ride in carriage, coach, or motor car.” (p. 32)

Keywords: rivers, water, churches, towers, trees, boats, people, colour

Places shown: Leamington; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2004-10-12

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Inside a feudal castle hallLa Civilizacion 3 (1881)

Interior de salon de un castillo feudal Which is, in English, Inside the hall of a feudal castle. A man wearing white tights (hose) and a red doublet, with a feather in his red hat, is reading perhaps [...]

Keywords: interiors, halls, men, women, people, medieval costumes, medievalinteriors, stained glass, windows, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-09-02

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Map XVII. british Isles; Showing places of greatest Historical Interest.History of the World Vol III (1885)

by A. Von Steinwehr. From Thalheimer’s Mediæval and Modern History, by permission. The map shows Ireland, before Northern Ireland was created in 1921, as well as England, Scotland, Wales, and part of [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: British Isles

Added: 2025-08-12

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30: Lectio MandarinicaOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

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Added: 2000-09-15

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Art Nouveau Border with ivy leaves and face.Jugend [German art magazine] (1903)

This border in green and brown features a the head of young man with a slightly puzzled smile, ivy leaves, perhaps a halo, and stylized rectangular vines. It originally surrounded a German poem, “Amer [...]

Keywords: borders, foliated borders, people, faces, hair, eyes, ivy, colour, frames, cartici, full-page borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-18

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Costumes, A.D. 1200 – 1300The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

A group of eight people stand on and around a red-carpeted raised platform or daïs, with a background of curtains or tapestries and a stone column. The king stands in front of his throne; the queen to [...]

Keywords: costumes, people, royalty, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-03-01

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Mediæval QueenThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

The Queen here is taken from the coloured plate Costumes A.D. 1200 – 1300; she wears a crown and what looks like a heavy green cape, along with other robes and a gown. She is seated on a wooden throne [...]

Keywords: costumes, royalty, people, crowns, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-03-10

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Mediæval KingThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

The King here is taken from the coloured plate Costumes A.D. 1200 – 1300; he is standing, wearing a golden crown and a pink robe with gold embroidery of solid lines and the fleur-de-lys and cross; ove [...]

Keywords: costumes, royalty, people, crowns, beards, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-03-06

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Infancy of SemiramisLa Civilizacion (1881)

Infancia de Semíramis We see the infant girl Semiramis naked and seemingly alone in a tropical forest, with doves. Semiramis was the wife of Onnes and, after the death of Onnes, of Ninus. Ninus was kn [...]

Keywords: nudity, infants, children, girls, birds, trees, jungles, forests, miraculous events, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-05-15

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

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2000-09-15

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Ludwig Richter-Haus in LoschwitzJugend [German art magazine] (1903)

A front door, with open wooden shutters, one having a bag hanging perhaps for mail. Windows on either side with open shutters and bars over the glass; a green bench by the door; an oval frieze contain [...]

Keywords: houses, colour, windows, doors, entrances, ladders, trees, drawings, sketches

Places shown: Loschwitz; Dresden; Saxony; Germany

Added: 2025-10-09

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Snow WhiteJugend [German art magazine] (1903)

Schneewitchen [Snow White, or, Little Snowdrop] This engraving reproduces a picture (probably a painting) by the German artist Alfred Zimmermann, in which the Dwarfs find Snow White asleep in the gras [...]

Keywords: snow white, people, dwarfs, dwarves, women, men, beards, orchards, fairy tales, illustrations for children, trees, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-09

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Druidical Temple, AveburyYouth’s Instruction (1830)

Engraved by Mc. Gahey. This engraving accompanied the December 1830 issue of the Youth’s Instructor and Guardian, the article being entitled Druidical Temple, Avebury (With an Engraving). “This once m [...]

Keywords: megaliths, druids, temples, people, churches, ruins, colour

Places shown: Avebury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-03-10

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Autumn Anemones (By Miss Alice Argyles)Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

The reviewers say some pretty rude things about this piece, making me wonder why they included it, even though it won a prize. Indeed, the prize shows, it seems to me, that the judges were wiser than [...]

Keywords: paintings, flowers, art, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-04-25

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Godey’s Fashions for May 1870Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Vol LXXXI January to June) (1870)

Five women and one girl are wearing what to our eyes are sumptuous and very elaborate early Victorian costumes. Fig. 1.—Walking dress of green silk, made with one skirt and casaque. The skirt is trim [...]

Keywords: costumes, victoriana, clothing, people, women, dresses, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2018-03-24

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Corners for Pocket-HandkerchiefsGodey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Vol LXXXI January to June) (1870)

Three designs meant to be used for sowing to decorate the corners of handkerchiefs. The idea is presumably to give the women of the house more work to do. There is a flower, a scroll or banderol, and [...]

Keywords: butterflies, banners, banderols, sewing patterns, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-03-25

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32: Siamica, MadagascaricaOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2000-09-18

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Candle SavingThe Real Mother Goose (1919)

A smiling good-natured bespectacled man wearing a light blue patterned nightgown fastened with a sash and a red and blue bobble-hat holds in his left hand a candlestick with a lighted candle. His righ [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, people, colour, bedtime, night clothes, night

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-01-23

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