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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NebuchadnezzarGreat Men and Famous Women, vol. II (1894)

“And he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen” by George Rochegrosse Here we see the former king under an arch, lying prone on the filthy ground fuly clothed. Immediately above him, a stern w [...]

Keywords: men, people, kings, royalty, jewish mythology, steps, stairs, staircases, arches, biblical illustrations, greyscale

Places shown: Babylon; Hillah; Babil Goernorate; Iraq

Added: 2025-09-17

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Hannibal from an old coinGreat Men and Famous Women, vol. II (1894)

Hannibal (247 – 183 B.C.) We see only a man’s head, complete with pupils in his eyes, from one side. looking to our left. he wears a helmet with a “Mohican” crest from front to back and feathers (perh [...]

Keywords: hannibal, portraits, men, berds, helmets, soldiers, kings, coins, circular, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-09-25

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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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