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156x200, 1831x2355, 583x750, 916x1178 | Summary of the Law, in goldHolman Family Bible (1875) A full-page setting of a biblical quote, with a gilt (gold) page background and red, blue, green, black inks, with scrollwork, a border with crowned seraphs at the codners, and a sidebar in a frame an [...] Keywords: typography, page images, commandments, religion, biblical texts, bibles, colour Places shown: none Added: 2025-01-25 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1056x1424, 148x200, 445x600, 594x801, 792x1068 | Frontispiece: When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole WorldThe Lost Boy (1913) “At last, [Hillel] said: “It is better to hope and to wait patiently for Him than to reckon the day of His coming. For if the reckoning is wrong, and He does not come, then men despair, and no longer [...] Keywords: religion, people, children, bare feet, people, beards, scholars, interiors, greyscale Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine Added: 2007-05-16 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 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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146x200, 462x630, 616x840, 770x1050 | New Testament Title PageGeneva Bible Scans (1581) Although I already had a photograph of the title page, it’s interesting enough that I wanted to add a 2400dpi scan. Notice the dragon! The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, Conferred diligently [...] Keywords: title pages, bibles, page images, religion, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-26 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 145x200, 1850x2546, 545x750, 925x1273 | Jesus and MosesHolman Family Bible (1875) Jesus, barefoot, with divided beard and long curly hair, wearing a long dress from which his toes protrude, holds up the start of the New Testament with the Gospel of Mark; crouching next to him is Mo [...] Keywords: jesus, moses, biblical characters, patriarchs, religion, christianity, people, men, beards, bare feet, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2025-06-12 + S K L |
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128x750, 172x1007, 34x200, 344x2013 | Border of Peace from Front Cover.Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887) The front cover of the book includes a border in gold and black on a red background; there are five florets containing symbols of peace, love and Christianity, as well as a vase of wheat and grasses a [...] Keywords: borders, colour, religion, peace, decoration, symbols, christianity, christmas, xmas Places shown: none Added: 2013-12-07 + S K L |
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153x200, 2669x3488, 574x750, 890x1163 | The Bishop of St. Praxed’s Orders his Tomb.A Painter’s Anthology (1924) In the picture, which is a colour reproduction of a watercolour painting it seems, the elderly Bishop is in bed. He has very pale skin. The bed is a four-poster and the surroundings are richly decorat [...] Keywords: death, illness, people, bedrooms, interiors, candlesticks, curtains, wealth, religion, old age, colour, purple, gold Places shown: none Added: 2015-03-23 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1077x1169, 184x200, 800x868 | Chi-rho symbol (Px) in red, black ad gold from front cover.Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887) The Chi-Rho, or Chiro, symbol is a PX monogram from te first two letters of the Greek word for Christ. This gold and christian Px symbol is set in a gold circle surrounded with flowers on a black fiel [...] Keywords: symbols, crosses, religion, christianity, colour, floriated borders, easter, geometric borders Places shown: none Added: 2013-12-08 + 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 | 1186x1651, 144x200, 667x928, 890x1238 | 1.—Martyrs suspended by one or both feet, by the arms with heavy weights attached to the feet; crucified; Christian women hung up by the hairTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903) A. Martyrs suspended by one foot. B. Suspended by both feet. C. Raised on the cross head uppermost. D. Nailed to the cross, head downwards. E. Hung up by both arms, heavy weights being attached to the [...] Keywords: death, torture, nudity, people, punishments, religion, bare feet, spooky, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-03-26 + S K L |
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1258x818, 1677x1090, 308x200, 943x613 | 11.—Gaulish Deity. Cernunnos.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) The Celtic god Cernunnos is crowned with antlers. He is sometimes also called as Herne the Hunter, and may be the Green Man of British folklore. “[...] Under the church of Notre Dame, at Paris, were f [...] Keywords: spirit, druids, gods, religion, greyscale Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France Added: 2005-03-13 + S K L R N |
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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 |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 145x200, 1636x2250, 545x750, 818x1125 | Angel MessengerEveryman (1930) The angel messenger announces the start of the play “Everyman” with raised hand and sword. He wears an ankle-length cloak fastened with a broach around his neck and a belt above his waist, has wings a [...] Keywords: angels, religion, christmas, wings, christianity, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2015-12-19 + S K L |
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1600x1600, 200x200, 800x800 | The Wassail BowlPeter Parlay’s Annual (1856) A bearded man in a tall hat and cravat, eighteenth or early nineteenth century leggings, and with a garland round his head reclines, one hand raised. Nearby, in the undergrowth and sitting on a rock, [...] Keywords: christmas, wassail, people, december, winter, bowls, beards, bare feet, religion, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2013-12-14 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1220x1688, 144x200, 514x711, 686x950, 915x1266 | 2.—Bound hand and foot to stakes and smeared with honey, and so left exposed to the sun, to be tortured by the stings of bees and other insectsTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903) A. Martyr suspended by both feet, and a great stone fastened to his neck. B. Sometimes the Blessed Martyrs, after being smeared with honey, were bound [naked] to stakes fixed in the ground, and so exp [...] Keywords: nudity, torture, people, death, punishments, religion, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-03-26 + S K L |
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1251x1737, 144x200, 527x732, 704x977, 938x1303 | 3.—Suspended by the thumbs, heavy stones being fastened to the feet; hung up over a slow fire and beatenTortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903) A. Martyr suspended by his thumbs, heavy stones being attached to his feet. B. Christians hung up, and a slow fire kindled underneath, so as to suffocate them with the smoke; the victims being scourge [...] Keywords: nudity, torture, punishments, people, death, religion, bare feet, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-04-03 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | | St. Simon Stylites, Hermit of the PillarHone’s Everyday Book (1826) (page 35) Saint Simon, partly bald but with a long flowing beard, kneels barefoot on the top of a pillar and holds up a cross. He is wearing sackcloth. Keywords: people, crosses, religion, bare feet, clouds, pillars, beards, easter, colour Places shown: none Added: 2003-03-31 + 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")
