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Frontispiece: Jester and MonkThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A woman in a red jester’s outfit, including a jester’s hat with bells, and a black-robed monk wearing sandals, and with a black hood, hold hands as if preparing to dance.

Keywords: people, jesters, monks, sketches, colour

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Added: 2007-05-25

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Colour plate: Morris DanceOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This plate is inside the front cover, before the title-page, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to call it a frontispiece: it doesn’t face the title page. It shows some jesters, harlequins and dancers [...]

Keywords: morris dancing, dancers, costumes, robin hood, maid marian, medieval costumes, jesters, men, women, kings, queens, colour, stained glass, windows, page images

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Added: 2019-01-30

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The Well of KnowledgeThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The jester leads the donkey (or mule) to the well of knowedge (written, quaintly, “Knowledge. HerWelle”) but, stubbronly, the mule refuses to drink. The mule is wearing the board and gown of a univers [...]

Keywords: colour, humour, jesters, wells, sketches, cartoons

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Added: 2010-05-07

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Menu Card 1: Court JesterAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

Menukarte (Hofnarr) Court Jester, one of a series of four designs marked as modern in this 1882 book of emblems and symbols. The court jester here (Hofnarr in German) is laughing merrily, wearing a ha [...]

Keywords: jesters, medieval, food, service, waters, people, banners, banderols, menu cards, greyscale

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Added: 2025-06-28

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TroubleThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

They were driving to the poor-house when he car broke down. Granny is filling te engine, perhaps with fuel or with water, while someone in the foreground wields a hammer; behind them, a jester laughs.

Keywords: people, cars, jesters, cartoons, sketches, humour, colour

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Added: 2010-05-07

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Decorative initial letter “V” from 16th CenturyOrnamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

This capital letter “V” is suitable for use as a drop cap (dropped capital) or a decorative initial; there’s also a small version for an avatar or icon. It includes a mediæval court jester! Note tha [...]

Keywords: letterv, initials, people, jesters, greyscale

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Added: 2009-12-10

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62r.—Initial capital letter “R” from Dance of Death Alphabet.Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This decorative initial letter “R”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. The skeleton figures in the alphabet represent death. This letter, R, includes a ske [...]

Keywords: letterr, initials, death, people, skeletons, jesters, greyscale

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Added: 2012-05-11

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King Lear and Fool in a Storm.Record of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts, and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples.”

— Shakespeare

By Sir John Gilbert, R.A., P.R.W.S.

Keywords: shakespear, king lear, fool, people, beards, weather, night scenes, spooky, jesters, greyscale

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Added: 2006-10-28

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The Old year and the NewRecord of Fifty Years’ Work, A (1901)

A jester crowns the new year as a young woman, and ushers out the old year, an old woman. This picture was obviously made for the end of 1866 and the start of 1867; it is dated 1867 in the text. It w [...]

Keywords: comics, drawings, people, new year, jesters, women, people, greyscale

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Added: 2008-12-22

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