Items matching pipes (results page 1)

Hobo bird meets aristocrat rabbitVictorian Trade Cards (1890)

In this somewhat surreal Victorian trade card, or something similar, a bird, perhaps a wild turkey, meets a rabbit (or hare) walking upright on its hind legs down an inpaved road. Theres a wooden whit [...]

Keywords: trade cards, animals, signposts, walking sticks, birds, rabbits, costumes, surreal art, illustrations for children, smoking, pipes, travel, chance meetings, colour

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Added: 2018-08-09

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Cæsar treating with the BritonsBill Nye’s History of England (1900)

Cæsar (the Roman emperor) sits cross-legged on the ground, sharing a Native American peace pipe with the barefooted Britons. Of course, tobacco was not known in the ancient Western world; it came from [...]

Keywords: pipes, humour, cartoons, people, bare feet, beards, greyscale

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Added: 2006-08-08

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Shepherd BoyA Painter’s Anthology (1924)

A young man, a shepherd, wears a broad-brimmed hat and a ragged animal skin, spotted like that of a tiger; he appears to be barefoot in long grass, although the effect is that of a hooved satyr. He is [...]

Keywords: shepherds, people, engravings, animals, sheep, pastoral scenes, musical instruments, pipes, trees, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2015-03-23

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A Dance of ShepherdessesMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1881)

The drawing reproduced as an engraving shows three women, barefoot and in ankle-length short-sleeved dresses. One is seated, playing divided pipes; she’s sitting on the steps of a circular neo-Classic [...]

Keywords: dance, dancing, people, women, bare feet, temples, columns, music, pipes, sheep, animals, trees, water, pillars, spring, fecundity, greyscale

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Added: 2019-01-26

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