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Oval frame, scallopedEmblems Divine and Moral (1866)

A full-page oval border with a strong solid interior. You could easily use an image editor, such as the GNU Image Manipulation Program, use fuzzy select, or magic wand, or select by region, to select [...]

Keywords: oval, borders, frames, cartici, full-page borders, scallops, greyscale

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Added: 2025-05-17

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Portrait of Ebeneezer Sibly, M.D>, F.R.H.S.Astrology (1806)

E. Sibly, M.D.   F. R. H. S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians in Aberdeen. Dodd delin’t. J. Pass scupl. Sibly, shown wearing a wig and a white silk cravat and with a smile as he faces to ou [...]

Keywords: portraits, doctors, people, men, wigs, oval, greyscale

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Added: 2025-03-24

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892.—Oval Frame With Leafy BranchesNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This oval frame has two different kinds of branch, with leaves, on either side, and a ribbon on the top. I could not identify the leaves. I have coloured the image; the original was printed in solid b [...]

Keywords: frames, oval, cartici, borders, leaves, foliated borders, colour

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Added: 2015-09-18

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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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Gargoyle, brighter versionCharles Meryon (1923)

This is a version of Meryon’s Gargoyle that has has the surface tone removed to make for better reproduction. Since the artist intended the background to be darkened, this should be printed on tinted [...]

Keywords: gargoyles, stryge, crows, gothic, goth, cityscapes, oval, greyscale

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

Added: 2025-09-07

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Full-page portrait border with nameplate spaceLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

This full-page rectangular border is designed like a picture frame, with flowers surmounting an inset oval frame or cartouche, and with a nameplate appearing to hang by a ribbon beneath the oval. Orig [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, rectangular, oval, full-page borders, cartici, flowers, greyscale

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Added: 2022-07-10

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Hymn to the SeasonsThe Circling Year (1870)

This stylized wreath of ivy includes allusions to all four seasons, as well as the words “Hymn to the Seasons”. It almost fills a page, and the following pages contain the hymn so mentioned. At the to [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, winter, seasons, summer, autumn, spring, ivy, flowers, borders, cartici, oval, greyscale

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Added: 2025-08-11

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Drawn Picture FrameLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

This engraving of a picture fram would be fabulous for a picture of a loved one. Simply place the PNG file as a layer on top of a person’s photograph (in the free GIMP image editor for Windows/mac/lin [...]

Keywords: frames, picture frames, surrounds, cartici, borders, ornate, oval, greyscale

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Added: 2025-08-30

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Monseigneur Roche, Bishop of GapLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

Here we have a portrait of a prelate, a French bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Gap; he lived from 1828 to 1880 and was made a bishop in 1879.

The portrait is in a fabulous engraved oval frame.

Keywords: portraits, frames, men, bishops, prelates, borders, oval, ovals, cartouches, cartici, greyscale

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Added: 2020-10-31

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Green leafy Victorian border of Irish shamrockSheet Music and Covers (1910)

This green border is of clover, or Irish shamrock, as befitted the cover of an Irish song.

You can also see the original cover page and there is a black and white shamrock border version too.

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, oval, foliated borders, shamrocks, leaves, clover, green, colour

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Added: 2021-01-05

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Oval shamrock borderSheet Music and Covers (1910)

This border is of clover, or Irish shamrock, as befitted the cover of an Irish song.

You can also see the original cover page and there is a green version too.

Keywords: borders, leaves, foliated borders, oval, clover, full-page borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-01-05

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