Items matching owls (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg.Legends of the Black Forest (1890)

A ghostly woman glowing white floats in the air, her bare feet not touching the ground, as she reaches out to a knight, kneeling in awestruck adoration. In the background a statue of the same woman at [...]

Keywords: people, ghosts, spirit, spooky, owls, forests, knights, colour

Places shown: Baden; Germany

Added: 2009-03-24

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Decorative initial “K” on scroll with owl and rosesGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

This ornamental letter “K” was used as an 8-line drop cap initial. It featuers an owl, two rose flowers, leaves, and a German Fraktur letter “K” on a scroll.

Keywords: initials, letterk, birds, owls, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-23

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Barn OwlA Painter’s Anthology (1924)

An antique/vintage woodcut of a barn owl at rest, facing slightly to the side, isolated on a white background.

Keywords: birds, owls, barn owls, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-07-14

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Snake and Owl Border.The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

This border in red, featuring a snake and an owl with an outstretched wing, was around the word “Memorandum” but it could equally well do for an owl-deliverd Slytherin message in a Harry Potter film!

Keywords: snakes, owls, borders, birds, colour, cartici

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-01-12

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An Owl in the Pope’s CouncilWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The woodcut shows people using sticks to get rid of an owl that had entered a meeting of the pope, the people there taking this as a supernatural event. Pope John the Twenty Third called a Council at [...]

Keywords: woodcuts, popes, people, meetings, owls, birds, omens, portents, religion, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-02-01

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The Barn OwlThe Natural History of Selborne (1879)

The barn owl, or white owl (Strix flammea). “We have had, ever since I can remember, a pair of white owls that constantly breed under the eaves of this church. As I have paid good attention to the man [...]

Keywords: birds, owls, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-07-28

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The Brown Owl (Syrnium Aluco).The Natural History of Selborne (1879)

“When brown owls hoot their throats swell as big as a hen’s egg. I have known an owl of this species live a full year without any water. Perhaps the case may be the same with all birds of prey. When o [...]

Keywords: birds, owls, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-29

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Corner decoration: Owl with leaves and treeThe Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

This pointilliste-style decoration would look fabulous on a letterhead or in a scrapbook; it was filling in one corner of a pate in an 1870s edition of Shakespeare’s plays. It features an owl sitting [...]

Keywords: borders, owls, birds, leaves, trees, ornaments, decorative elements, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-16

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Corner decoration: brown owl with green leaves and treeThe Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight (1873)

I made a coloured version of the owl in the corner of the page.

Keywords: owls, birds, borders, nature, leaves, ornaments, decorative elements, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-17

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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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