Items matching gardens, greyscale (results page 2)

Ornate Rectangular FrameArt-Journal (1850)

This ornate rectangular frame or cartouche surrounded the volume number of the magazine on the title page. I liked the flourishes on the top and inside, with a hint of acanthus leaves. I have made sep [...]

Keywords: frames, borders, cartici, acanthus, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2015-09-24

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Cartouche with Sculpture, Art and ArchitectureArt-Journal (1850)

This is the main engraving from the title page of the 1850 Art-Journal, without the writing. A group of three topless women stand on an ancient sarcophagus; the women represent sculpture (with a hamme [...]

Keywords: cartici, frames, borders, art, architecture, sculpture, painting, people, statuary, circular, sarcophagi, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2015-09-24

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Dedication page With CartoucheArt-Journal (1850)

The dedication page comes after the title page and imprint page. Here it uses a giant circular frame or cartouche of gems or diadems to enclose the text. At the foot of the page, under the text, and s [...]

Keywords: page images, cartici, frames, borders, circular, statuary, art, heraldry, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-24

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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

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-24

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Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M.Desiderata (1779)

The engraving was taken from life and shows Francis Peck standing, holding some of his own books, and wearing perhaps an academic gown. The inscription says (in Latin) that he was born on the 4th May [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, frontispieces, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-03

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The Thames Illustrated: Title PageThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

The title page has a decorative border containing flowers, vines, and the face of a man with oak leaves for his beard, presumably intended as a reference to the Green Man of British folklore. The Tham [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-19

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (black version)Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from the title page of this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, inhabited borders, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-03

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Mediaeval Border from Title PageThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

This 1890s Victorian book has an arts-and-crafts-inspired Mediaeval/medieval-style calligraphic title page drawing, a design based on manuscript books and early printed books. The full-page border in [...]

Keywords: borders, calligraphy, lettert, inhabited borders, floriated borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-20

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Title PageHand-book of The Useful Arts (1852)

Putnam’s Home Cyclopedia Hand-book of the useful arts; including agriculture, architecture, domestic economy, engineering, machinery, manufactures, mining, photogenic and telegraphic art: being an exp [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-04

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Printer’s Flower from Title PageDie Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

Ths ornament is on the title page.

Keywords: ornaments, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-03-07

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Frontispiece: Don’t CryMagazine of Art Illustrated Vol 3 (1878)

A curly-haired boy squats with one arm around his younger sister, whose face is full of sadness. The boy is trying to cofort thegirl. They are dressed as poor people from Italy, so that perhaps they h [...]

Keywords: children, grief, sorrow, costumes, squatting, curly hair, boys, girls, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-07-04

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Detail from title pageCambridge (1920)

A line drawing of a castle tower with leaves in the foreground.

Keywords: sketches, castles, towers, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-06-21

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typographic ornament: rosetteThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A decorative rosette of oak leaves in a circle, used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. full title page - detail: the decorative rosette - detail: the right-pointing flower - det [...]

Keywords: ornaments, flowers, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-17

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typographic ornament: flower pointing rightThe Thames Illustrated: A Picturesque Journey from Richmond to Oxford (1897)

A calligraphic flower (a sort of predecessor to a printer’s flower) used as a typographic ornament on the title page of the book. full title page - detail: the decorative rosette - detail: the right-p [...]

Keywords: ornaments, typography, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-17

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Title PageSome British Ballads (1919)

“Some British Ballads Illustrated by Arthur Rackham Dodd Mead & Co. New York.” There is a picture, in the style of a woodcut, of a young man and woman kneeling in front of trees or bushes; the youth i [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Frontispiece: Cathedral o MessinaSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This engraving was published in 1877; since then, the cathedral was damaged in an earthquake in 1919 and mostly rebuilt, only to be bombed in the Second World War and again partly rebuilt. In spite of [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, churches, architecture, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2012-05-29

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Title Page, Architecture: Gothic and RenaissanceArchitecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)

Architecture Gothic and Renaissance By T. Roger Smith, F.R.I.B.A. Professor of Architecture at University College, London. London Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited St. Dunstan’s House, Fetter [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-08

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Household Treasures.The People’s Gallery of Engravings (1844)

The engraving shows a woman one arm about a girl and the other about an older girl who in turn cuddles a small dog. There’s an ornate couch and a curtain held back with a rope in the background and th [...]

Keywords: children, people, animals, dogs, affection, cute, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-12-05

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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and WhiteThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a version of the red border from Page 27 in black and white (actually grayscale, desaturated and darkened). There are also a green and a brown version. To make your own version of this old pag [...]

Keywords: borders, decorative elements, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-04

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Cartouche from Dedication PageEccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

This woodcut features a scroll-work oval cartouche or frame, with a wide-brimmed hat on top of it. Two cherubs, or winged putti, one on either side, hold multi-tassled rope. I don’t know the significa [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, cherubs, ornaments, nudity, bare feet, wings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-19

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