Items matching crowns (results page 1)

Oval or Elliptical Victorian FrameArt-Journal (1850)

This giant elliptical (oval) frame or cartouche is taken from the dedication page of the magazine. The giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems enclosed the text. At the foot of the page, [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, crowns, heraldry, royalty, sculpture, statuary, art, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-24

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Frontispiece: Edward VII Taking the OathRoyal Children of English History (1904)

Edward (not yet King Edward) strikes a kingly pose with one hand on his hip, wearing attractive purple, with an ermine robe and a gold chain, as he prepares to try on the crown, which he thinks is ver [...]

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

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Added: 2012-09-08

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Bona Dea - The EarthHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(Frontispiece) Earth is represented as a woman with twelve stars forming a halo around the crown on her head, and a lion beside her. She is crowned with the stars! She is depicted inside a picture fra [...]

Keywords: people, animals, lions, zodiac, symbols, aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, virgo, libra, scorpio, sagittarius, aquarius, pisces, crowns, stars, greyscale

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Added: 2003-03-18

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Painted Window. Two Saxon Earls of Mercia, And Seven Norman Earls of Chester.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A reproduction in colour of a sixteenth-century painted glass window showing various earls and barons of Chester. Brereton Hall, in Cheshire, was built in the reign of Elizabeth, by Sir William Breret [...]

Keywords: windows, royalty, people, costumes, knights, crowns, swords, colour

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Added: 2010-12-04

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Catherine de Medici in front of the magic mirror of her astrologer Cosimo RuggieriDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Katharina von Medici vor dem Zauberspiegel ihres Astrologen Cosimo Ruggieri. This scene probably shows the astrologer and occultist Cosimp Ruggieri predicting that one of the sons of the queen regent [...]

Keywords: occult, astrology, robes, spooky, people, robes, symbols, queens, royalty, wizards, kings, crowns, interiors, greyscale

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Added: 2021-08-21

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53.5.—Cross With Unkempt HairOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This might be a symbol representing a crown, with the crosses implying rule over a spirtual realm but with temporal power, such as an abbot or bishop. I don’t know what the hairstyle is about. Maybe [...]

Keywords: crosses, symbols, spirit, religion, crowns, greyscale

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Added: 2005-11-02

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824.—Queen Eleanor.—From fer Tomb in Westminster Abbey.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

If it be true, as one of our poets remarks, that (we quote from memory) “It is the heart which glorifies this life,” then was there a glory shining about that of the king of Castile’s daughter, Edwa [...]

Keywords: royalty, crowns, people, portraits, greyscale

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Added: 2006-02-17

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Gods of our Saxon Ancestors.Error’s Chains: How Forged and Broken (1884)

In the engraving, Thor is seated at a throne; he wears a crown and voluminous regal robes, and has a halo or stars. Woden is also crowned, and wears medieval armour. In the back, in statue niches, the [...]

Keywords: gods, religion, weekdays, anglo-saxons, statuary, statues, kinds, thrones, worship, crowns, stars, greyscale

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Added: 2023-03-10

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1153.—Henry IV.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A portrait of Henry IV showing his face, and of course his kingly crown.

Keywords: people, royalty, beards, crowns, portraits, greyscale

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Added: 2006-11-02

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Nativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

September 8 is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin; that is, the supposed birthday of the mother of Jesus. She is shown wearing a crown, with a starburst of light emenating from her head, and floating [...]

Keywords: mythologial figures, people, crowns, christmas, greyscale

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Added: 2006-09-14

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Courtship in MayPan Pipes (1883)

Spring flowers adorn a grassy hill in a forest where a shepherd girl (by her crook, or sheep-staff) and a minstrel boy (by his pan pipes) are courting. The young man is about to put a wreath or garlan [...]

Keywords: romance, woods, crowns, courting, people, couples, colour

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Added: 2016-10-11

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Queen Alice.Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“I hope it encouraged him,” she said, as she turned to run down the hill: “and now for the last brook, and to be a Queen! How grand it sounds!” A very few steps brought her to the edge of the brook [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, chess, queens, crowns, girls, greyscale

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Added: 2015-10-11

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Do wake up, you heavy things!Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“What am I to do?” exclaimed Alice, looking about in great perplexity, as first one round head, and then the other, rolled down from her shoulder, and lay like a heavy lump in her lap. “I don’t think [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, chess, queens, crowns, royalty, girls, greyscale

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Added: 2016-04-18

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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

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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

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Added: 2016-03-06

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Crown from title page at p. 637The Holy Court (1663)

A woodcut of a crown, used as decoration on the title page of Disturbers of the Holy Court.

Keywords: crowns, royalty, greyscale

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Added: 2007-10-13

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Heraldic Crest from the end of RevelationGeneva Bible Scans (1581)

This armorial bearing has three lions en passant and three fleurs-de-lys in quarters. The scrollwork cartouche around it includes a crown and a tudor rose. It was printed at the end of the Book of Rev [...]

Keywords: heraldry, lions, fleurs de lys, crowns, cartici, borders, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-19

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Arrest of the Duke of GloucesterThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

On a grassy knoll, with trees, outside a castle, the King’s soldiers arrest the Duke of Gloucester on his horse. You can tell the King on the right by his crown and the royal coat of arms just visibl [...]

Keywords: royalty, nobility, knights, soldiers, horses, trees, boats, spears, crowns, robes, costumes, hills, castles, caparisons, greyscale

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Added: 2018-03-09

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