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Thought IconIllustrations fo Goethe’s Fause (1871)

This strangee picture features an outline of a human head, conventionally male b proportion, with a cod in the middle, perhaps symbolizing cogitation. There is an asymmetrical circular design surround [...]

Keywords: symbols, heads, people, cogs, concepts, thinking, thought, greyscale

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Added: 2025-04-26

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Grotesque HeadMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

By M. Legrain. From the Cascade Basin. [at the Paris Exhibition of 1878] A good gargoyle picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween! “These masks, modelled by M. Legrain, were among the most amusing ex [...]

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, horror, mythical creatures, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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Grotesque Head [detail]Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

A good picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween!

A detail from Grotesque Head

Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, horror, mythical creatures, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-10-27

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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

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Added: 2020-11-20

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