Items matching colour, book covers (results page 68)

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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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: 2025-10-10

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Strawberry Season (Erdbeerenzeit)Jugend [German art magazine] (1903)

Children with an adult, perhaps their mother, carrying small baskets and filling them with strawberries they are picking in the woods. Actually they look more like flowers than berries to me, and the [...]

Keywords: people, children, women, woods, forests, trees, steeples, hills, rural, harvest, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2026-01-14

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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: 2005-03-11

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Autumn Anemones (By Miss Alice Argyles)Magazine of Art Illustrated Vol 3 (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: 2018-03-26

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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: 2014-01-24

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Christ ChurchOxford (1910)

Now let us stroll on – ’tis but a step – to Christ Church. Sometimes it seems as though this should take precedence of all other colleges. Its chapel is Oxford’s Cathedral, its quadrangles are the f [...]

Keywords: towns, churches, towers, roads, people, colour, colleges

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-03-11

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Plate 40.—Caerphilli Castle, GlamorganshireHistory of Wales (1853)

[unknown artist]

There is an official Caerphilly Castle web site (note modern spelling), complete with an image gallery.

Keywords: ruins, castles, clouds, cattle, colour

Places shown: Caerphilly; Glamorgan; Wales

Added: 2003-09-03

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33: Latina; Alia Versio, à Seb. CastalionaOratio 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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Map XIX. IrelandHistory of the World Vol III (1885)

A political map showing county boundaries, with counties in different colours, and Ulster, Connaught, Leinster, Munster labeled; railway are shown, and towns with more than 100,000 people are labeled [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Ireland

Added: 2025-08-12

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Medieval CustomsLa Civilizacion 3 (1881)

costumbres de la media. Mir. Tarradas Comas y Cā - Editores. This picture shows two knights on horseback jousting with long lances in front of a castle, watched by a handful of spectators that might [...]

Keywords: knights, horses, battles, fights, jousting, weapons, street scenes, castles, people, colour, middle ages

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-03-06

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34: Gallica, ItalicaOratio 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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35: Forojuliana, Rhætica seu Grisonum.Oratio 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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G to M from XIV. Century No. 1.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

See XIV. Century No. 1 for the full alphabet, miniscule and majiscule (capitals and small letters). Actually it’s not a full alphabet by modern standards. I have also made these letters available as [...]

Keywords: alphabets, calligraphy, lettering, red, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-16

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G to M from XIV. Century No. 1.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

See XIV. Century No. 1 for the full alphabet, miniscule and majiscule (capitals and small letters). Actually it’s not a full alphabet by modern standards. I have also made these letters available as [...]

Keywords: alphabets, calligraphy, red, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-16

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Lower row of lower-case (miniscule) blackletter from XIV. Century No. 1.The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

The small (miniscule) letters from p to z; strictly speaking these are not to be called “lower case” since they are for writing and not printing, but it is a distinction no longer widely followed. See [...]

Keywords: alphabets, lettering, calligraphy, red, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-16

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NazarethThe Land and the Book (1894)

Here we see a small Palestinian town with its white flat-roofed buildings, domes, and a mosque’s tower or minaret, nestled together amongst the hills. In the foreground a lady with a small child ridin [...]

Keywords: cityscapes, towns, villages, people, donkeys, xmas, christmas, religion, colour

Places shown: Nazareth; Palestine

Added: 2025-11-13

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