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146x200, 464x637, 618x849, 824x1131 | Frontispiece: Francis Peck, A.M.Desiderata (1779) The engraving was taken from life and shows Francis Peck standing, holding some of his own books, and wearing perhaps an academic gown. The inscription says (in Latin) that he was born on the 4th May [...] Keywords: portraits, people, frontispieces, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-06-03 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 150x200, 511x679, 681x905, 908x1206 | Frontispiece: The Right Hon. Lord Penzance.National Portrait Gallery, The (1888) A colour portrait of Mr. James Plaisted Wilde, the fourth son of Edward Archer Wilde, Esq., born in 1816. He became Judge of the Court of Probate and Judge Ordinary of the Divorce Court in 1863; he wa [...] Keywords: portraits, colour, people Places shown: none Added: 2010-07-28 + S K L |
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1283x1815, 141x200, 642x908 | Frontispiece - Portrait of Goethe with his signatureGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882) A portrait of the writer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe). Note: German copyright today is 90 years after death, but in 1882 it was shorter, and I do not know if this image is out of copyright. Keywords: portraits, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2010-01-30 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1100x1203, 1467x1604, 183x200, 619x677, 825x902 | Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit AuberFamous Composers and their Music (1901) From an engraving by G. Deblois, 1867. Auber was a French composer from Paris, born in 1782 and died in May 1871. He wrote a series of comic oeras with Scribe and Auber, including “Leicester” (based o [...] Keywords: portraits, musicians, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2010-11-14 + S K L |
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| 1279x1762, 145x200, 539x743, 719x991, 959x1321 | The Good ShepherdBible Symbols (1908) ernhard Plockhorst’s famous painting shows Jesus as a caucasian male (with a long straight nose), surrounded by sheep. He is barefoot, and carries a lamb, holding also a shepherd’s crook. He is protra [...] Keywords: easter, religion, portraits, people, sheep, art, bare feet, purple, colour Places shown: Palestine Added: 2010-06-22 + S K L |
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125x200, 1484x2370, 470x750, 742x1185 | John Carroll D..D., Portrait and SignatureMy Boy Life (1882) A portrait of the author, Dr. John Carroll, and a reproduction of his signature. Keywords: portraits, people, beards, signatures, handwriting, colour Places shown: none Added: 2015-09-01 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 152x200, 1820x2400, 569x750, 910x1200 | Frontispiece: A Girl’s Face, after GreuzeCassell’s Family Magazine (1889) This portrait, an engraving printed in red ink with a border in a delicate pale green, illustrates a poem by J. R> Eastwood: A GIRL’S face where, the budding rose Of youthful beauty blooms and grow [...] Keywords: portraits, people, girls, children, faces, poems, poetry, colour Places shown: none Added: 2019-02-18 + S K L |
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1194x1481, 161x200, 537x666, 716x888, 955x1185 | Inigo JonesThe Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909) Inigo Jones, along with Sir Christopher Wren, is surely one of the most famous of architects in England. “Inigo Jones was born on July 15, 1573, in the Parish of St. Bartholemew’s Smithfield, and was [...] Keywords: portraits, architecture, people, architects, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-05-28 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 156x200, 541x692, 676x865, 902x1153 | Title Page Detail: Francis QuarlesEmblems Divine and Moral (1866) A supposed portrait of the author, Francis Quarles, taken from the title page. He is shown with a goatee beard in appropriate seventeenth-century style, and holding a book. Short biography of Francis [...] Keywords: portraits, people, beards, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-09-16 + S K L |
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127x200, 521x820, 695x1094, 926x1458 | Frontispiece 3: Capt. E. J. SmithWreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912) Photo Underwood & Underwood [Captain] E. J. Smith
The Commander of the Titanic, who went down with his ship. Keywords: people, portraits, beards, uniforms, costumes, titanic, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-09-24 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 148x200, 1933x2605, 556x750, 966x1303 | Frontispiece: Portrait of Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1897) Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley engraved by Francis Holl after a miniature in the possession of Shelley’s son. Keywords: portraits, people, men, writers, poets, authors, youth, books, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-07-09 + S K L |
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1082x1703, 127x200, 487x766, 649x1022, 866x1362 | Bust of William of Wykeham. 1394.The Lives of British Architects from William of Wykeham to Sir William Chambers (1909) On a corbel in Muniment Room, Winchester College. The photograph shows a stone bust of William of Wykeham, wearing a bishop’s mitre and carrying a bishop’s crook. “Although William of Wykeham can in a [...] Keywords: portraits, carving, statuary, people, religion, interiors, greyscale Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England Added: 2007-05-28 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 121x200, 446x735, 595x980, 793x1308 | Christofel Cololus [Christopher Columbus]The New World (1671) Christopher Columbus, of Christofer, or Christofel Colonus as written here, was responsible for bringing many diseases to Turtle Island, including Catholicism and rampant individualism, corporate gree [...] Keywords: people, portraits, beards, cartici, frames, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2013-01-21 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 145x200, 496x685, 662x913, 882x1217 | Portrait of Professer Henry Fawcett, M.P.National Portrait Gallery, The (1888) Henry Fawcett was a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party, born in 1833 near Salisbury. He was struck blind in a hunting accident in 1858, and in 1864 was elected Member of Parliament for Brighto [...] Keywords: portraits, people, faces, colour Places shown: none Added: 2010-07-28 + S K L |
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1175x1479, 159x200, 199x250, 661x832, 881x1109 | 83.—Julias Cæsar. From a Copper Coin in the British Museum.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantry [...] Keywords: people, portraits, roman emperors, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-11-10 + S K L |
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