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Knight and HermitThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A knight in armour carrying a shield is on foot, leading his horse. He stands by a tree in front of a church or monastery door. A bearded monk beckons him in, pointing towards the open door. In a nic [...]

Keywords: castles, trees, hills, towers, knights, animals, horses, monks, armour, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-02-20

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Religious OrdersThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A note on page 90 reads: The names of the orders delineated in the annexed plate, follow in the same succession in which the figures stand; beginning with the nun on the left, and reckoning towards th [...]

Keywords: monks, cathedrals, churches, interiors, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-02-20

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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

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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15.—Group of Arch-Druid and DruidsOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A group of bearded older men wearing robes sit in disputation or discussion. They are in a forest.

Keywords: people, beards, monks, robes, druids, trees, astrology, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-02-13

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29.—Arch-Druid in his full Judicial Costume.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A fanciful drawing of an Arch-Druid (archdruid) in his full costume, judicial presumably meaning that he is ready to judge over people. An old and stern-looking man with a long flowing beard wears a r [...]

Keywords: people, beards, bare feet, monks, robes, druids, spooky, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-29

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Franciscan Monk Going Down StaircaseA Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885)

The monk here has a habit with cowl, or hooded robe. The text makes clear hs is a Franciscan monk; at one time they went barefoot and lived in poverty, in the manner of their founder, but the book her [...]

Keywords: monks, costumes, robes, people, death, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-02-23

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Sonnet Introduction BorderLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The border and decoration from page 103. An angel, wearing a toga, but with bare feet and bare-legged, beckons to the writer, depicted as a monk with a robe and medieval pointed shoes. I included fai [...]

Keywords: monks, angels, robes, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-13

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Myself when youngThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1905)

XXVII Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. A white-bearded sage teaches two boys t [...]

Keywords: people, children, bare feet, beards, colour, monks

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-26

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Geoffrey ChaucerHistoric Byways and Highways of Old England (1900)

This image is from the chapter “Chaucer and the Mediæval Inn.’ and bears the additional caption “From the Harleian MS. 4866, fol. 91.” The portrait of Chaucer, which the affection of his disciple, Tho [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, monks, chaucer, pointing, rosaries, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-17

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Saint Bonaventura as a MonkLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

An engraving of Saint Bonaventura standing in a Franciscan monk’s robe or cowl, hood back to reveal his tonsured head, staring up at birds, children singing, and rays of light suggesting a higher supe [...]

Keywords: saints, people, monks, robes, tonsures, borders, rustic borders, birds, twigs, christianity, religion, crosses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-25

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1028.—Franciscan, or Grey FriarOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Franciscan monk or friar shown here wears a robe (a habit) and sandals; he carries a small cross on a chain or rosary. [Saint Francis of Assisi] surrendered all, even to the last article of his cl [...]

Keywords: people, robes, religion, monks, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-22

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1029.—Dominican, or Black FriarOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The monk shown here is a Black Friar; despite the text he has neither bare feet nor sandals, but wears shoes; he also has more ornate robes than the text would seem to imply. In a great measure, men [...]

Keywords: people, robes, religion, monks, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-21

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1146.—Chair (Royal M.S. 14 E, iii.)Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The square-backed chair (Fig. 1146) was frequent in the mansions of the thirteenth century. In the fourteenth, they, and other articles combining household utility and elegance, were modified by the [...]

Keywords: furniture, chairs, people, writing, royalty, monks, scholars, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-19

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NovemberHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A portly man sits astride a bearded centaur. The centaur is wearing a helmet and carrying a spear. The mean wears a monk’s tunic and is mopping his tonsured brow. A poem underneath the image: NOVEMBER [...]

Keywords: people, centaurs, spears, monks, calendars, months, november, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-11-06

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Monk’s Walking Dress of the Middle AgesThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

Costume of a monk walking on foot in and around the time of Kind Eward IV: 1440 to 1480 or so, the second half of the fifteenth century.

Keywords: costumes, people, monks, religion, christianity, robes, greyscale

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Added: 2017-11-10

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DecemberHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1543)An old tonsured man wearing a monk’s robe and a gown is supping lustily from a giant bowl of liquid. He rides a goat, representing the lasciviousness of the pagan festivals at December, as [...]

Keywords: people, bowls, winter, animals, goats, monks, calendars, months, december, christmas, religion, wassail, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-11-06

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Begging Monk at the Door of a MosqueThe Table Book of Art (1880)

(From the original painting by J. L. Gérôme.) The standing monk gets our attention first, with his wicker alms basket hanging from his right arm, his right hand holding his cane. He wears only a rathe [...]

Keywords: people, monks, spooky, bare feet, loin cloths, beards, mosques, religion, worship, entrances, doorways, shoes, walking sticks, canes, lanterns, islamic scenes, simplicity, exposed, invisibility, enlightened, humility, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-11-18

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1805.—Arthur’s Show.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The engraving shows the interior of a large tent or pavillion, with a banner reading Socitie of Prince Arthur hanging from the ceiling, festooned with a garland. There is a round table and, in the fro [...]

Keywords: archery, weapons, events, soldiers, contests, gaming, gluttony, monks, people, costumes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Mile End; London; England

Added: 2012-12-05

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Out of the WorldIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“[...] The scene is one which we understand the artist witnessed years ago at the Franciscan monastery at Tivoli. In a whiewashed cell of the monastery a young monk sits playing the harpsichord—one of [...]

Keywords: monks, religion, musical instruments, pianos, music, books, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-31

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King Henry II whipped by the Pope’s OrderWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The text reads “K. Hen. 2. whipt by the Popes Order pa. 88” “henry the Second our King, was much vexed by this Pope [Alexander III] for the death of Thomas Becket, whom the Pope made St. Thomas for op [...]

Keywords: penance, punishments, religion, people, royalty, bare feet, woodcuts, cathedrals, interiors, monks, religion, christianity, grayscale

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-26

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