Items matching love (results page 1)

End Paper: the young mad read to her from a small book.The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The end-papers (inside the covers) are printed with an untitled design signed by the author. The picture shows a mediaeval scene: a young lady on an ornate seat in front of a log fire; behind her is a [...]

Keywords: romance, love, people, fire, fireplaces, books, reading, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-08-17

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Frontispiece: A bride’s dreamDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Traum einter Braut. Mit Genehmigung der Photographischen Gesellschaft in Berlin. Which is, A Bride’s Dream, with permission of the Photographic Society of Berlin. Here there bride rests her head on [...]

Keywords: romance, love, marriage, women, people, cherubs, putti, nudity, bare feet, dreams, trees, fantasy, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-04-19

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Love Birds KissingIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

Two birds (doves?) touch their beaks together over a rose in this romantic engraving.

Keywords: romance, love, birds, kissing, roses, doves, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-09-21

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The Triumph of LoveArt-Journal (1850)

The Triumph of Love Engraved by W. Roffe, from the group in marble by P Mac Dowell, R.A. Note: the sculptor’s name is written variously as Mac Dowell in two words or as Macdowell, both in this issue [...]

Keywords: statuary, sculpture, people, love, affection, men, women, cupid, cherubs, putti, children, bare feet, boys, women, men, nudity, romance, sandals, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-12-29

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My Dearest Child (My Love)Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893)

Mein Lieb, or, My Love. A peasant woman has picked up her son, and is kissing his cheek. He is perhaps five of ssix years old. They wear cheap clothing, but warm enough for a North Italian Winter. The [...]

Keywords: parenting, affection, love, motherhood, people, women, children, art, peasants, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-27

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The Beach TreeIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A man and a woman, clearly a couple, stand at the stump of a tree on a waist-high bank; the man is carving their initials into it, i think. They seem rather formally dressed by modern standards, she w [...]

Keywords: romance, men, women, people, trees, forests, hats, love, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-12-31

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On the TerraceDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Auf der Terrasse. Nach einem Gemälde von E. Joorsz. On the Terrace. After a painting by Eufène Joors. A tall slender young woman (presumably wearing a corset under her full-length dark dress) is stan [...]

Keywords: women, dogs, people, animals, cherubs, romance, whips, trees, blossom, spring, love, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-04-17

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The SeranadeIllustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

A flautist on the rooftops in the moonlight! He is standing on top of a wall to play outside someone’s bedroom window, watched i think by a cat. Despite the text reproduced below, i am not certain he [...]

Keywords: romance, courtship, love, musicians, musical instrumentsromance, love, moonlight, night, roofs, rooftops, moonlight, men, people, love, courting, walls, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-10-27

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Initial Letter T With Cherubs and Dancing CoupleAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

This vignetted initial shows a dance, with couples wearing elaborate clothing; the front-most couple is shown in detail and the others as shadowy sketches. A putto or cherub, a naked boy in the sky, p [...]

Keywords: cherubs, romance, love, dancing, putti, wings, initials, lettert, music, vignetted initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-30

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Le Baiser (The Kiss)Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

In this orange and black duotone print, a man wispers into the ear of a slghtly younger woman, or maybe kisses her ear or even nibbles on it a bit, as one does. A poem beneath it is attributed to some [...]

Keywords: kisses, romance, people, men, women, couples, affection, love, duitones, hair, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-29

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Paul and Virginia in the ForestThe Table Book of Art (1880)

«Paul Virginie dans la forêt» – Huile datant du milieu du XIXe siècle, d’après Frédéric Henri Schopin, et dont l’auteur est inconnu This engraving by A. L. Dick is of a painting by Frédéric Henri Scho [...]

Keywords: people, art, bare feet, men, women, romance, love, forests, trees, bodices, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: Mauritania

Added: 2018-12-31

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MusicWorld’s Best Music (1900)

A lady plays a 16-stringed sitar or guitar, or more likely a chitarrone; she is sitting by a rosebush wearing a white dress, and plays from music. Behind her a cherub plays the violin; he is naked and [...]

Keywords: love, romance, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, music, musical instruments, people, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-17

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Venus and CupidEl Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

In the book this engraving is captioned Caprichos de Cupido, but the original oil painting was in an auction catalogue entitled Venus and Cupid. Here, Cupid, shown as a naked curly-haird boy with wing [...]

Keywords: romance, cupid, cupids, boys, people, women, nudity, venus, bare feet, outdoors, trees, love, kisses, wings, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-17

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