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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 117x200, 377x646, 503x861, 671x1149, 894x1531 | Ecce Ancilla Domini [Behold the blesséd Mary]Days With the Victorian Poets (1910) This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect God’s Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee, Unto God’s will she brought devout respect, Profound simplicity of intellect, And [...] Keywords: religion, paintings, people, saints, mary, annunciation, biblical scenes, art, christianity, xmas, easter, colour Places shown: none Added: 2012-06-23 + S K L |
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1053x1447, 146x200, 444x610, 591x813, 789x1085 | The Boy was the Joy of the JourneyThe Lost Boy (1913) “The Boy was the joy of the journey. His keen interest in all things seen and heard was like a refreshing spring of water to the older pilgrims, who had so often traveled the same road that they had f [...] Keywords: children, paintings, people, bare feet, religion, greyscale Places shown: Palestine Added: 2007-05-16 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1250x795, 2500x1589, 315x200, 750x477 | A Boyar Wedding FeastModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1895) This engraving is of a Russian wedding feast among the Russian nobility. The groom has seen the bride’s face for the first time and is about to kiss her; the bride does not look very eager. I wouldn’t [...] Keywords: paintings, art, weddings, feasts, celebrations, indoors, interiors, windows, meals, feasts, tables, people, brides, grooms, greyscale Places shown: Russia Added: 2020-11-12 + S K L |
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138x200, 1687x2440, 519x750, 844x1220 | Adrift from The Snow QueenArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960) A watercolour painting of a helpless little girl adrift in a rowing boat without oars, on the wrong side of the river from a distant village with a castle. Arthur Rackham made the picture to illustrat [...] Keywords: people, children, girls, boats, water, despair, fear, villages, castles, paintings, winter, colour, illustrations for children Places shown: none Added: 2024-09-23 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 156x200, 1830x2348, 585x750, 915x1174 | An Egyptian Priest and ScribeMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) Scribes in ancient egypt seem to have been valued and inportant; a scribe was a high-ranking job, unlike in the Levant in the first century, when they were often slaves. The picture shows the bare-hea [...] Keywords: art, paintings, priests, stairs, scribes, ancient egypt, religion, rituals, greyscale Places shown: Egypt Added: 2025-02-02 + S K L |
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142x200, 493x693, 657x924, 876x1232 | 130.—Palazzo SanudoVenice (1907) A grand arch in a crumbling wall on the opposite side of a canal in Venice marks an entrance to the palace of Sanudo. If, before leaving the campo, we make a short journey on foot along the Salizzada [...] Keywords: paintings, art, doorways, canals, water, doors, architecture, colour Places shown: none Added: 2012-06-02 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | The Colosseum in a StormRome (1905) Dark and broody skies over one of the world’s most famous landmarks in this painting by Alberto Pisa. The writer in the extract that follows appears to be unaware that the Greeks also had amphitheatre [...] Keywords: roman remains, storms, art, paintings, ruins, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour Places shown: Rome; Italy Added: 2015-10-03 + S K L R N |
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154x200, 1833x2375, 577x750, 912x1185 | Summer EveningModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893) Sommerabend, which is, Summer Evening, painted by Hermann Sschlittgen and shown at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition (der Grossen Berliner Kunstausstellung) in 1893. The picture shows, i think, a mother [...] Keywords: paintings, art, chinese new year, lanterns, mothers, people, children, women, wonder, joy, excitement, art, colour Places shown: none Added: 2023-01-18 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480 | 1800.—Tric-trac, by Teniers.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) Four men are playing at dice, a game called tric-trac. A discarded clay pipe on the floor, together with a wine-jug and an open tankard, hint at moral excesses. The men wear seventeenth-century costum [...] Keywords: art, paintings, people, games, dice, beards, gaming, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-12-02 + S K L |
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1027x660, 2053x1319, 311x200, 750x482 | Usk Bridge, Monmouth, Coloured from aon old paintingHistory of Wales (1853) This is a version of the engraving of Usk Bridge to which i have applied the colour from an old painting; the artist of the painting was not attributed, but the details were a very close match so the [...] Keywords: bridges, rivers, water, colour, paintings, art, rivers Places shown: Usk; Monmouthshire; Wales Added: 2025-04-14 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1600x1200, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Poitiers.Cathedral Cities of France (1907) Saint Pierre at Poitiers [...] certain characteristics it has which connect it with the Angevin style, but unlike most of the Angevin churches, it has aisles throughout. From the outside the appearan [...] Keywords: cityscapes, views, paintings, art, cities, cathedrals, churches, roofs, sunsets, rivers, water, bridges, houses, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour Places shown: Poitiers; Poitou-Charentes; France Added: 2012-05-31 + S K L R N |
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281x735, 561x1470, 76x200 | Autumn Anemones (By Miss Alice Argyles)Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878) The reviewers say some pretty rude things about this piece, making me wonder why they included it, even though it won a prize. Indeed, the prize shows, it seems to me, that the judges were wiser than [...] Keywords: paintings, flowers, art, colour Places shown: none Added: 2011-04-25 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 146x200, 1773x2425, 548x750, 886x1212 | Collection of alms at the funeral of don Álvaro de LunaModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1895) Almosensammlung bei der beerdigung von don Álvaro de Luna Collection of alms at the funeral of don Álvaro de Luna The picture shows a young man on one knee throwing a coin into a plate next to a bier; [...] Keywords: death, skulls, funerals, grief, sadness, art, paintings, people, beards, priests, almsgiving, candles, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2022-12-19 + S K L |
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![Ecce Ancilla Domini [Behold the blesséd Mary]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/DaysWithTheVictorianPoets/pages/002-ecce-ancilla-domini/002-ecce-ancilla-domini-q85-117x200.jpg "Ecce Ancilla Domini [Behold the blesséd Mary] 1910")
