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1043x708, 1391x945, 1855x1260, 294x200, 782x531 | 59.—British Pearl Shells. Natural Size.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) a. Duck fresh-water Pearl Mussel (Anodon Anatinus). b. Swan ditto (Anodon Cygneus). “The pearl-fishery of Britain must have existed before the Roman invasion, for Suetonius says that the hope of acqu [...] Keywords: fish, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-11-08 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1054x894, 1406x1193, 1874x1590, 236x200, 790x670 | FebruaryHone’s Everyday Book (1826) “— — Then came cold February, sitting In an old waggon, for he could not ride, Drawne of two fishes, for the season fitting, Which through the flood before did softly slyde And swim away; yet had he b [...] Keywords: months, calendars, february, fish, people, carts, february, zodiac, pisces, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-02-14 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | PiscesHone’s Everyday Book (1826) The zodiacal sign of pisces, two fish, here with a ribbon or rope bound from the tail of one to that of the other. “This zodiacal sign is said to symbolize the fishery of the Nile, which usually comme [...] Keywords: fish, pisces, zodiac, astrology, february, march, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-06-03 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 153x200, 2714x3540, 575x750, 905x1180 | Methought what pain it was to drownA Painter’s Anthology (1924) Dangling seaweed from above; fishes; a treasure on the bottom; a watercolour scene of the sea to illustrate the dream of Clarence from Shakespeare’s play Richard III. Methought, what pain it was to [...] Keywords: colour, underwater scenes, water, fish, blue, art, treasure Places shown: none Added: 2015-05-09 + S K L |
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1241x1212, 205x200, 375x366, 698x682, 931x909, 95x91 | Pisces (the fish, or two fishes)Astrology (1806) Zodiac sign for Pisces taken from The Zodiac Keywords: zodiac, pisces, astrology, symbols, fish, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-09-28 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 117x200, 439x750, 590x1008 | Initial letter V with a mermaidBohemia Volume 2: Vltava (1884) She’s a naked woman from head to knee, but then her legs become a twisted knotted tail with fins at the bottom. This mermaid is wearing a wreath or headdress of roses, a garland symbolising romance or [...] Keywords: initial letters, letterv, mermaids, mermades, mythical creatures, spooky, women, people, nudity, fish, flowers, seduction, mythological creatures, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2024-12-05 + S K L |
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146x200, 1750x2399, 547x750, 875x1200 | The Lost City Under the SeaJugend [German art magazine] (1900) A naked bearded man sits on the spire of a cathedral in an underwater city and gazes upon the town; large fish and a jellyfish swim past. He is crowned with coral. The picture is delicate, printed in [...] Keywords: poetry, poems, cityscapes, views, cities, underwater, floods, flooded, people, men, nudity, bare feet, fish, spires, colour Places shown: none Added: 2018-09-06 + S K L |
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1287x1131, 1716x1509, 227x200, 723x636, 965x848 | Seamen in great distress eat one anotherWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685) These sailors have only a tattered sail on their mast, and are in a small lifeboat in a raging storm, with a sea inhabited by a strange giant fish. A sailor near the stern of the boat is about to be [...] Keywords: boats, people, storms, ships, fish, waves, food, colour Places shown: none Added: 2006-11-04 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1846x1978, 187x200, 700x750, 923x989 | Chapterheads with cherubs, dragons, fish, neptune, flowersTypographic Ornaments (1850) Three separate chapterheads: one with two cherubs, or naked boys, each holding one end of a rope, or a pipe with a bulb on the end, perhaps about to squirt some giant flowers; one with a Greek male h [...] Keywords: chapterheads, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, flowers, fish, greek gods, heads, neptune, dragons, wyverns, mythological creatures, wings, floriated borders, foliated borders, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2020-11-20 + S K L |
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115x200, 469x815, 626x1086, 834x1448 | Lobster primping before a mirrorAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) ’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.” As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and tur [...] Keywords: alice, fish, lobsters, cartoons, illustrations for children, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-30 + S K L |
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