Items matching mythological creatures (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Why has your tree no flowers while ours are pink?The Sun’s Babies (1910)

The sun shone brightly, the air was clear and warm, and the apple fairies came up from their workrooms for their spring dance on the young clover-leaves. “But where is our little sister?” they asked. [...]

Keywords: fairies, wings, gnomes, mythological creatures, illustrations for children, trees, colour

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Added: 2022-05-25

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Alchemy Full Page BorderThe Hermetic Library (1678)

The title page of this compilation of occult books represents the journey towards the Great Work of alchemy, that is, of creating the Philosopher’s Stone, a stone that grants immortality (as well as t [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, inhabited borders, alchemy, occult, symbols, mythological creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2025-08-21

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Title page detail: facing the gorgonThe New World (1671)

In this engraving from the title page, a two-faced woman uses a mirror to look safely at the medusa in the border of the picture. She is Prudence, trampling on Envy, a man with snakes instead of hair, [...]

Keywords: people, mythological creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2008-04-09

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Cherub Facing RightModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

This is only a baby cherub, with tiny wings not-yet grown, a little Cupid or Eros. he sits naked on the ground and gestures in front of him with his left hand. This was part of the masthead for the mo [...]

Keywords: cherubs, putti, boys, wings, winged, love, romance, mythological creatures, bare feet, infants, greyscale

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Added: 2025-08-27

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135.—Roman Image of Victory.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Victory, or more properly Victoria, was a Roman goddess personifying victory, including victory after war. Depictions (in painting, sculpture, coins, and elswhere) of Victoria with wings, such as this [...]

Keywords: statuary, roman remains, sculpture, victory, gods, mythological creatures, wings, people, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-07

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Vitzlipuztli, God of the MexicansThe New World (1671)

The image is captioned, in Latin, Viztlipuztli idolum Mexicanorum, which is, Viztlipuztli, idol of the Mexicans. The usual modern spelling appears to be Vitzlipuztli; he/it was worhipped as a god or w [...]

Keywords: mythological creatures, people, religion, worship, native america, aztec, interiors, temples, shields, wings, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: Mexico

Added: 2016-11-27

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Decorative Initial letter FSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A decorative initial capial letter “F” used as a drop cap atthe start of a chapter. It features a Greek urn, a Minotoar or Bull mask, vine leaves, and, at the top, a naked woman riding a creature that [...]

Keywords: letterf, initials, mythological creatures, nudity, people, greyscale

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Added: 2012-05-29

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Art Nouveau Nude Archer in ForestTypo Ornamenty (1990)

A boy or young man (based on his proportions) is about to fire an arrow from his bow. He is naked, barefoot, and has wings that reach down to his heels; there’s a strap over one shoulder, probably for [...]

Keywords: cherubs, people, angels, mythological creatures, wings, winged, archery, forests, trees, woods, bare feet, boys, weapons, art nouveau, nonbinary, androgyny, greyscale

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Added: 2020-08-30

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The Gorgon’s HeadMyths Every Child Should Know (1914)

A silhouette of Perseus with shield and sword, and with winged sandals on his feet. This is a Chapter-head illustration for “The Gorgon’s Head.” There is also a detail of this picture, showing just P [...]

Keywords: people, mythology, weapons, chapterheads, wings, illustrations for children, silhouettes, mythological creatures, bare feet, swords, mountains, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-19

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Maenad and Faun Full Page BorderStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

In this full-page design a mænad, or female faun, part human and part goat, is sitting under a tree playing a pipe; a male faun is seated next to her playing pipes and with a laurel wreat round his ha [...]

Keywords: fauns, maenads, romance, mythological creatures, borders, full-page borders, colour, trees, musical instruments, musicians, music

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Added: 2020-11-16

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Faun playing pipes to his childrenStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

An adult faun, with the legs of a goat and garlands of flowers in his hair, plays the pan pipes to three faun children. All are topless and have horns. This is a clean design that could be used in p [...]

Keywords: fauns, maenads, romance, mythological creatures, children, horns, borders, full-page borders, colour, trees, musical instruments, musicians, music

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Added: 2021-09-10

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Then Satan First Knew PainDoré Gallery: Paradise Lost (1884)

In this pcture signed by Gustav Doré and engraved by Antoine-Alphée Piaud Satan is depicted as a man with bat-like dark wings and curly hair, wearing a chainmail shirt or tunic and rags for a skirt or [...]

Keywords: angels, wings, demons, mythological creatures, christianity, religion, darkness, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2016-10-17

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When She Saw Tinyboy she hid her face shyly in her curlsThe Sun’s Babies (1910)

“Let us see if anyone is at home here,” said the Butterfly, stopping at a large pink rose. “Come out, Rose-lady!” she called, and out came the prettiest little lady you ever saw. She was dressed in so [...]

Keywords: fairies, wings, mythological creatures, illustrations for children, trees, colour

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Added: 2022-05-25

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Cartouche With CherubsMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

This cartouche, or border, or frame, was drawn and then engraved by the French designer Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau, or Ducerceau, in or around 1560. The cherubs look like nine or ten year old boys [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, place settings, cherubs, boys, nudity, bare feet, harpies, mythological creatures, skulls, greyscale

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Added: 2022-07-13

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Gospel of MarkThe Four Gospels (1931)

This full-page engraving appears at the start of the Gospel of Mark (as you might have guessed). It shows the symbol of Saint Mark, a winged lion, en passant (in passing), and obviously male and erect [...]

Keywords: evangelists, symbols, page images, christianity, religion, saint mark, mythological creatures, iconography, wings, greyscale

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Added: 2015-04-06

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Panik! Panik!Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

Everyone in the dance hall runs screaming, fleeing for their lives, when the medusa demon appears! Note, this was a double-page spread in issue 8 of Jugend Magazine, and the line down the middle is wh [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, medusa, fear, crowds, panic, mythological creatures, screaming, colour

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Added: 2013-04-13

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A Christmas-Box From ChinaModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

A family in Germany have received a box of Christmas gifts from China in this coloured engraving from 1901. The mother is wearing (i think) a traditional embroidered xiuhe dress or shirt/blouse or jac [...]

Keywords: xmas, christmas, gifts, family, surprise, trees, ornaments, people, men, women, children, costumes, buddha, demons, mythological creatures, colour

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Added: 2025-07-24

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O Earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred More justlyDoré Gallery: Paradise Lost (1884)

Satan here is wearing only a cloth around his waist: his chest, arms, legs, feet are all bare; his wings are spread but he sits on a rock at the edge of a forest bathed in a pool of sunlight; in the b [...]

Keywords: angels, wings, forests, nudity, biblical scenes, bible illustrations, demons, mythological creatures, christianity, religion, darkness, spooky, greyscale

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Added: 2016-10-23

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The Grotesque (Le Stryge)Charles Meryon (1923)

This etching from 1852 is of a 19th century gargoyle on Nôtre Dame cathedral in Paris. The engraving shows a horned and winged grotesque figure with its tongue sticking out. Strictyl speaking is it no [...]

Keywords: gargoyles, statuary, sculpture, statues, spooky, tongue, towers, views, cityscapes, crows, birds, gothic architecture, gothic, goth, wings, mythological creatures, oval, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2025-09-07

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Alice Meets Humpty DumptyThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

So she went on, wondering more and more at every step, as everything turned into a tree the moment she came up to it, and she quite expected the egg to do the same. (p. 113) But the egg from the Sheep [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, humpty dumpty, mythological creatures, eggs, greyscale

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Added: 2015-10-17

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