Items matching maps, colour (results page 16)

January Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A mean wearing warm boots, coat and hat walks through the snow, blowing on his hands to warm them, and is accompanied by a dog. The roofs of a nearby farm and house are covered in snow.In the sky is a [...]

Keywords: snow, animals, dogs, people, winter, months, calendars, january, aquarius, zodiac, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-18

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Bird fishing Victorian Trade Cards (1890)

In this 1880s trade card there’s a group of creatures at a pond. In the foreground stands a long-necked bird, a crane, wearing a hat with feathers and carrying a leather satchel. The ird has caught a [...]

Keywords: trade cards, birds, cranes, frogs, butterflies, btterfly nets, colour, victoriana, monkeys, ponds, water

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-01-13

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Back of boy fishing cartoon Victorian Trade Cards (1890)

I scanned this, the reverse side of a cartoon about a boy fishing, because the typography somewhat dates the cartoon.There is part of an advert for Dry & Fancy [Goods], groceries, clothing, boots, hat [...]

Keywords: typography, fonts, advertisements, lettering, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-01-13

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Hobo bird meets aristocrat rabbit Victorian Trade Cards (1890)

In this somewhat surreal Victorian trade card, or something similar, a bird, perhaps a wild turkey, meets a rabbit (or hare) walking upright on its hind legs down an inpaved road. Theres a wooden whit [...]

Keywords: trade cards, animals, signposts, walking sticks, birds, rabbits, costumes, surreal art, illustrations for children, smoking, pipes, travel, chance meetings, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-09

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Front cover for the history of civilization La Civilizacion (1881)

Black printing with inlaid gold make this large red book cover look very strong. It would be great for a restaurant menu!Theouter borderis available as a separate image, as is the entirefront cover de [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, victoriana, lettering

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-05-19

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Gotch The Growth of the English House (1909)

The Growth of the English House (front cover)

The cover is red with gold stamping.

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2003-07-13

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Abstract border and front cover design La Civilizacion (1881)

This is the pattern and design from thefront cover.There are two main areas for text, there’s swirly barbed wire, there’s a Grecian urn, what more could you want? Well, OK, I can also provide the vari [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, templates, victoriana, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-05-20

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Ornate Early Victorian full-page Geometric Border La Civilizacion (1881)

This geometric full-page border includes stylized acanthus leaves and knotwork in blackand orange. It came from thefront coverof the book. The outer back border is a typographic ornament repeated.Thef [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, patterns, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-05-20

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Sheldons, Wiltshire [Frontispiece]. The Growth of the English House (1909)

“Sheldons Manor in Wiltshire is a charming example of alteration. The original house, of which the porch is a part, was built by the Gascelyns in the fourteenth century. The sixteenth-century addition [...]

Keywords: manors, entrances, trees, gates, colour

Places shown: Sheldons; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2004-04-01

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Rosa Lutescens Christian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

Rosa Lutescens is also known as Rosa hispida. The blooms are white with a faint tinge of yellow, so it might be that the colouring is a little too strong here. In english, it’s a sort of rose.The tex [...]

Keywords: flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-06-01

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half-title Oratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

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Added: 2000-09-18

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The Title Page and Frontispiece Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

Keywords: page images, title pages, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2002-09-30

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The Day Dream Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

The Day-Dream. –Ionides Collection South Kensington.From a painting by Rossetti.Within the branching shade of ReverieDreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be    Like woman’s budding day-dream s [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-25

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Plate 1: Book I, Chapter 2 Die Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes (1884)

Figs. 1 – 13: Plans of various Roman buildings, including the Pantheon in Rome and the Baths of Caracalla.

Also a cross-section of the Palace of Augustus in Rome.

Keywords: architecture, diagrams, roman architecture, plans, temples, palaces, towers, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-03-01

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Hollingbourne, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A half-timbered cottage in Kent. The steep tiled roof was probably once thatched.From a water-colour drawing by Mrs. Allingham, R.W.S.The image is also marked “by permission of Mrs. Lionel Beddington [...]

Keywords: cottages, flowers, moss, rooves, gardens, houses, colour, people, birds, colour, christmas

Places shown: Hollingbourne; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him. Works of Jane Austen (1906)

Mrs. John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters. To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the [...]

Keywords: people, children, interiors, fireplaces, jane austen, dogs, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-23

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Windsor Castle, The Royal Residence Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland (1870)

The history of Windsor Castle is the history of England and of England’s Kings and Queens. [...] The building is worthy of England, and of the long and illustrious line of monarchs who have sat upon o [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, buildings, water, boats, flags, views, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Windsor; Berkshire; England

Added: 2009-11-18

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Page 1: In those old days Out to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

“In those old days of the lost sunshine  Of youth” (p. 1)The picture is taken from a pencil or charcoal sketch of an orchard of three trees, and, judging by the full leaves and the sharp shadows, roug [...]

Keywords: trees, orchards, borders, colour, page images, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-16

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1.—January Week 1 The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

Tell the truth andshame the—family.I have also made higher-resolution versions of the cartouche surrounding the word January [cartouche] and the border decoration on the left [goth border] as separate [...]

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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Page detail: Art Neuveau border The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A detail from theJanuary Week 1 pageshowing the decorative border, which repeats on every fourth page throughout most of the book. A cat stands on a skull.

Keywords: borders, cats, skulls, sketches, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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