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Frontispiece: Edward VII Taking the OathRoyal Children of English History (1904)

Edward (not yet King Edward) strikes a kingly pose with one hand on his hip, wearing attractive purple, with an ermine robe and a gold chain, as he prepares to try on the crown, which he thinks is ver [...]

Keywords: kings, people, beards, royalty, colour, robes, costumes, crowns

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Added: 2012-09-08

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13.—Two Druids. Bas-relief found at Autun.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This carved likeness was found in an earth burial-mound, a barrow. “These remarkable monuments contain not only the bones and the ashes of the dead, but various articles of utility and ornament, domes [...]

Keywords: people, beards, astrology, druids, robes, greyscale

Places shown: Autun; Burgandy; France

Added: 2005-02-13

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15.—Group of Arch-Druid and DruidsOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A group of bearded older men wearing robes sit in disputation or discussion. They are in a forest.

Keywords: people, beards, monks, robes, druids, trees, astrology, greyscale

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Added: 2005-02-13

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29.—Arch-Druid in his full Judicial Costume.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A fanciful drawing of an Arch-Druid (archdruid) in his full costume, judicial presumably meaning that he is ready to judge over people. An old and stern-looking man with a long flowing beard wears a r [...]

Keywords: people, beards, bare feet, monks, robes, druids, spooky, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-29

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Franciscan Monk Going Down StaircaseA Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885)

The monk here has a habit with cowl, or hooded robe. The text makes clear hs is a Franciscan monk; at one time they went barefoot and lived in poverty, in the manner of their founder, but the book her [...]

Keywords: monks, costumes, robes, people, death, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-02-23

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Sonnet Introduction BorderLa Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The border and decoration from page 103. An angel, wearing a toga, but with bare feet and bare-legged, beckons to the writer, depicted as a monk with a robe and medieval pointed shoes. I included fai [...]

Keywords: monks, angels, robes, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-13

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Choirboy singing from balcony pulpitModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

A beautiful boy chorister, or possibly a young lady by the costume and the long pointy fingers, is singing in a wooden pulpit or balcony high in the top-left corner of a page of sheet music (not shown [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, choirboys, boys, people, women, robes, singing, music, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-12-10

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Earth Could Not AnswerThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1905)

XXXIII Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn; Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs reveal’d And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn. An old man [...]

Keywords: robes, beards, people, colour, candles, pictures of books

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-26

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Catherine de Medici in front of the magic mirror of her astrologer Cosimo RuggieriDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Katharina von Medici vor dem Zauberspiegel ihres Astrologen Cosimo Ruggieri. This scene probably shows the astrologer and occultist Cosimp Ruggieri predicting that one of the sons of the queen regent [...]

Keywords: occult, astrology, robes, spooky, people, robes, symbols, queens, royalty, wizards, kings, crowns, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-08-21

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Saint Bonaventura as a MonkLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

An engraving of Saint Bonaventura standing in a Franciscan monk’s robe or cowl, hood back to reveal his tonsured head, staring up at birds, children singing, and rays of light suggesting a higher supe [...]

Keywords: saints, people, monks, robes, tonsures, borders, rustic borders, birds, twigs, christianity, religion, crosses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-25

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783.—Costume of the time of John.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I do not know what the people are doing in this picture; it might be that the kneeling man is selling herbs to the man standing holding out coins. The costume of the Normans of both sexes was chiefly [...]

Keywords: costumes, people, men, women, hats, robes, boots, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-11-11

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PriestReligion in the Home (1913)

Showing the way a Jewish priest dressed in “Biblical” times (actually a span of over 1,000 years, so fashions might not have been totally constant). He has a beard, a turban, a long robe fastened wit [...]

Keywords: costumes, religion, turbans, people, bare feet, robes, judaism, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-12-01

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LeviteReligion in the Home (1913)

Showing the way a Jewish Levite dressed in “Biblical” times (actually a span of over 1,000 years, so fashions might not have been totally constant). He has a beard, a plain turban, a long robe with a [...]

Keywords: costumes, robes, religion, turbans, people, bare feet, judaism, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-12-01

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1028.—Franciscan, or Grey FriarOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Franciscan monk or friar shown here wears a robe (a habit) and sandals; he carries a small cross on a chain or rosary. [Saint Francis of Assisi] surrendered all, even to the last article of his cl [...]

Keywords: people, robes, religion, monks, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-22

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1029.—Dominican, or Black FriarOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The monk shown here is a Black Friar; despite the text he has neither bare feet nor sandals, but wears shoes; he also has more ornate robes than the text would seem to imply. In a great measure, men [...]

Keywords: people, robes, religion, monks, costumes, greyscale

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Added: 2007-08-21

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Monk’s Walking Dress of the Middle AgesThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

Costume of a monk walking on foot in and around the time of Kind Eward IV: 1440 to 1480 or so, the second half of the fifteenth century.

Keywords: costumes, people, monks, religion, christianity, robes, greyscale

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Added: 2017-11-10

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Étude a la PlumeMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

pour la Mort de la Vierge, par Albert Durer. (Collection Jvellanos à l’Institute de Gijon (Espagna) Study [using] the pen, for Death of the Virgin by Albrecht Dürer (Duerer). From the Jovellanos coll [...]

Keywords: scholars, people, robes, religion, beards, sorrow, greyscale

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Added: 2007-01-30

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Arrest of the Duke of GloucesterThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

On a grassy knoll, with trees, outside a castle, the King’s soldiers arrest the Duke of Gloucester on his horse. You can tell the King on the right by his crown and the royal coat of arms just visibl [...]

Keywords: royalty, nobility, knights, soldiers, horses, trees, boats, spears, crowns, robes, costumes, hills, castles, caparisons, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-03-09

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