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Wolfsthal Castle: Last view from AustriaDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888)

The Ruins of Pottenburg Castle, Wolfsthal, Austria Someone wearing a hat sits on a grassy bank in a forest of old mature trees and gazes up at the moon over the tuins of a castle, mysterious in the da [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, forests, woods, trees, moon, towers, monlight, nightime, spooky, halloween, greyscale

Places shown: Wolfsthal; Bruck an der Leitha; Lower Austria; Austria

Added: 2020-10-04

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Zodiac wheel with woman (detail)La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The central part of the illustration of the Zodiac wheel with the Evangelist symbols; here the main symbols are the astrological signs for the planets, the sun and the moon. I have also made separate [...]

Keywords: people, women, zodiac, astrology, colour, symbols, planets, sun, moon

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-26

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Owl borderModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XIII (1897)

This border contains the German text Erzählung von Ludwig Jacobowki, which means, Narrative by Ludwig Jacobowki. A heading benath the border reads Vorfrühling, which means First signs of Spring, or, E [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, cartici, mythical creatures, dragons, thistles, magic, owls, birds, nighttime, stars, moon, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-12-04

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Imploring the moon from th castle courtyardDer Rattenfänger von Hameln: Eine Aventiure (1890)

A young clean-shaven man wearing a feathered hat and a cloak which is gathered up in his arms stands with his tilted looking at the full moon. He is in the courtyard of a medieval castle, outdoor stai [...]

Keywords: men, people, dreams, hopes, castles, courtyards, buildings, moon, moonlight, nighttime, turrets, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Hamelin; Lower Saxony; Germany

Added: 2025-12-07

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Drawing of the moon with a bearded faceMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1881)

This engraving of the moon with a man’s bearded face in it appeared as a small detail on a decorated initial letter attributed to the French painter François Emile Ehrmann (1833 – 1910).

Keywords: moon, faces, beards, astroloy, symbols, drawings, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-11-04

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Naked angel with caduceusThe Hermetic Library (1678)

The nakedness of the angel here might symbolize perfection and unworldliness. It can also represent the raw substance from which the Grand Transformation into the Philosopher’s Stone begins, because t [...]

Keywords: nudity, mythological creatures, alchemy, occult, bare feet, sun, moon, symbols, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-08-21

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The OwlBible Animals (1877)

“I am a companion to owls.”—Job 30:29. Taking these words in order, we find in the first place that the Jewish Bible accepts the translation of the words côs and yanshûph, merely affixing to them the [...]

Keywords: tombs, owls, death, spooky, gloomy, despair, birds, ruins, columns, ravens, moon, night scenes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-31

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Plate XLIII.—Astronomy.Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

This full-page copper plate engraving contains a number of diagrams for the article on astronomy; I will post them as separate images on request.

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Keywords: astronomy, diagrams, eclipses, sun, moon, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-03

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Plate XLIII.—Astronomy.—Fig. 1.Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

Figure 1.

The full plate

Keywords: astronomy, diagrams, eclipses, sun, moon, astrology, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-10-02

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Plate XLIII.—Astronomy.—Fig. 3.Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

This diagram shows how (and why) the moon appears to grow and shrink at different times of the month.

I also made a full Sun with pointy rays based on the one on this diagram.

The full plate

Keywords: astronomy, astrology, sun, moon, diagrams, equinoxes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-10-09

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