Items matching kings (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Edward VII Taking the OathRoyal Children of English History (1904)

Edward (not yet King Edward) strikes a kingly pose with one hand on his hip, wearing attractive purple, with an ermine robe and a gold chain, as he prepares to try on the crown, which he thinks is ver [...]

Keywords: kings, people, beards, royalty, colour, robes, costumes, crowns

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-08

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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

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-30

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194.—Ringed Mail. Cotton MS. Claud. B, 4.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An illustration of a Biblical scene but with Anglo-Saxon costumes and weapons. A king (with a long forked breard) wears a crown, brandishes a heavy sword and carries a shield; he wears ring-mail. Next [...]

Keywords: soldiers, royalty, kings, weapons, swords, shields, mail, armour, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-07-19

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Catherine de Medici in front of the magic mirror of her astrologer Cosimo RuggieriDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Katharina von Medici vor dem Zauberspiegel ihres Astrologen Cosimo Ruggieri. This scene probably shows the astrologer and occultist Cosimp Ruggieri predicting that one of the sons of the queen regent [...]

Keywords: occult, astrology, robes, spooky, people, robes, symbols, queens, royalty, wizards, kings, crowns, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-08-21

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Xerxes orders the sea to be punishedLa Civilizacion (1881)

King Xerxes of Persia is shown here just after a storm destroyed the beginnings of a bridge he’d ordered to be built in order to send his army to conquor Greece. The following extract is from a transl [...]

Keywords: people, kings, xerxes, beards, men, soldiers, waves, water, rocks, colour, ancient persia, ancient greece, wars, illustrations for children

Places shown: Hellespont; Dardanelles; Turkey

Added: 2018-11-05

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Coronation of Henry IV (Harleian MS. No, 4679)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The image is taken, I think, from Harly MS. 4380, folio 186, verso; this is the second volums of Froissart’s Chromicles Vol IV part 2 (1470), and was drawn some three hundred years after the event. Th [...]

Keywords: coronations, royalty, kings, costumes, mediæval, kings, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2018-06-09

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Fifteenth Century Manuscript Border With JewelsL’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour) (1869)

This fifteenth century border originally would have surrounded a page of an Italian manuscript; it includes portraits of religious figures as well as bas-relief pictures of pearls. The background may [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, portraits, colour, cherubs, putti, people, men, beards, nudity, boys, religion, devils, kings

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-09-25

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Rudolph von Habsburg.Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

This engraving by Schultheiss is based on an oil painting by Moitz von Schwind, and depicts a scene about Rudolf von Habsburg (1218 – 1291), King of Germany. The story is that Rudolf, when he was stil [...]

Keywords: kings, royalty, servants, bare feet, forests, woods, trees, nighttime, priests, sacrament, the host, christianity, piety, bowing, kneeling, tobes, costumes, horses, people, knights, soldiers, greyscale

Places shown: Germany

Added: 2021-04-01

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King John Sealing Magna ChartaThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

King John sits on a throne under a huge canopy and raised up on a daïs, a large scroll in front of him which is presumably the original copy of the Magna Carta itself. He is about to press a seal into [...]

Keywords: magna carta, royalty, costumes, thrones, people, kings, bishops, ceremony, greyscale

Places shown: Ankerwick; Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2015-06-24

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King reflecting in courtAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. ‘Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?’ he asked. ‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’ [... the [...]

Keywords: alice, humour, courtrooms, royalty, kings, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-26

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