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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1522x1539, 198x200, 741x750 | Corner Bookcase OrnamentTypo Ornamenty (1990) This vignette or round image could ba a tailpiece, an ornament at the end of a chapter, or a decoration for an article about books or reading, perhaps, or a private secret place where we love to go, w [...] Keywords: ornaments, books, pictures of books, decoration, tailpieces, round, circular, bookcases, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2022-09-20 + S K L |
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1187x369, 158x49, 1583x492, 1978x615, 211x66, 2637x820, 281x87, 375x117, 645x200, 667x207, 890x277 | Chapter Heading Woodcut featuring EagleA Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737) This decorative woodcut was at the start of the preface; the woodcuts do not appear to bear any relation to the text, but are purely decorative. This one features an eagle, the symbol of the Roman Emp [...] Keywords: decorations, eagles, chapterheads, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-07-31 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1203x1052, 229x200, 677x592, 902x789 | Skull and one side of mandible of Musk Rat.American Animals (1902) N nasal. F frontal. P parietal. O occipital. Z zygomatic arch. B audital bulla. Mx Maxillary. PMx premaxillary. I incisors. M molars. CP coronoid process. C [...] Keywords: diagrams, animals, skulls, death, rodents, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-11-13 + S K L |
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100x100, 1721x1794, 192x200, 269x280, 360x375, 48x48, 56x56, 64x64, 75x75, 861x897 | Initial letter B WoodcutA Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737) A decorative initial letter “B” used as a drop cap (drop capital) at the start of a paragraph. The woodut (or wood engraving) shows a tree and a building in the background. I have included multiple [...] Keywords: initials, letterb, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-08-09 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 142x200, 548x770, 731x1026, 974x1368 | Title Page, Great Men and Famous WomenGreat Men and Famous Women, vol. II (1894) Great Men and Famous Women A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Edited by Charles F. Horne New York: Selmar Press, Publisher Co [...] Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-08-30 + S K L |
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1186x1651, 144x200, 667x928, 890x1238 | 1.—Martyrs suspended by one or both feet, by the arms with heavy weights attached to the feet; crucified; Christian women hung up by the hairTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903) A. Martyrs suspended by one foot. B. Suspended by both feet. C. Raised on the cross head uppermost. D. Nailed to the cross, head downwards. E. Hung up by both arms, heavy weights being attached to the [...] Keywords: death, torture, nudity, people, punishments, religion, bare feet, spooky, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-03-26 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 123x200, 455x740, 607x987, 809x1316 | Perseus und Andromeda.Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882) A damsel in distress if ever the was one! The woman (Andromeda) is chained at wrist and ankle to a rock in the sea, and a viscious sea-monster is about to swaller her up. But look! The helmeted and sa [...] Keywords: dragons, monsters, chains, bare feet, gods, heroes, swords, water, waves, mythology, illustrations for children, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-06-14 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1289x1053, 245x200, 725x592, 967x790 | 10.—Astronomical Instrument.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The precise description which Cæsar has thus left us if tghe religion of the Druids—a religion which, whatever doubts may have been thrown upon the subject, would appear to have been the prevailing re [...] Keywords: astrology, occult, druids, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-03-13 + S K L |
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1258x818, 1677x1090, 308x200, 943x613 | 11.—Gaulish Deity. Cernunnos.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The Celtic god Cernunnos is crowned with antlers. He is sometimes also called as Herne the Hunter, and may be the Green Man of British folklore. “[...] Under the church of Notre Dame, at Paris, were f [...] Keywords: spirit, druids, gods, religion, greyscale Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France Added: 2005-03-13 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1102x766, 1469x1022, 1680x1050, 287x200, 827x575 | Title page detail: facing the gorgonThe New World (1671) In this engraving from the title page, a two-faced woman uses a mirror to look safely at the medusa in the border of the picture. She is Prudence, trampling on Envy, a man with snakes instead of hair, [...] Keywords: people, mythological creatures, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-04-09 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1152x1436, 160x200, 648x808, 864x1077 | 13.—Two Druids. Bas-relief found at Autun.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) This carved likeness was found in an earth burial-mound, a barrow. “These remarkable monuments contain not only the bones and the ashes of the dead, but various articles of utility and ornament, domes [...] Keywords: people, beards, astrology, druids, robes, greyscale Places shown: Autun; Burgandy; France Added: 2005-02-13 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1232x580, 1643x773, 426x200, 924x435 | 14.—Druidial OrnamentsOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) “These remarkable monuments contain not only the bones and the ashes of the dead, but various articles of utility and ornament, domestic utensils, weapons of war, decorations of the person, perhaps in [...] Keywords: druids, jewellery, greyscale Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England Added: 2005-03-17 + S K L R N |
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