Items matching romance (results page 1)

Front Cover, Moderne Kunst 14Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XIV (1900)

The cover for the year’s collected issues of this 1900 magazine is roughly A3 sized (11.5 by 16.5 inches or so), and features a drawing of a topless woman holding a branch of what appears to be a thor [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, women, nudity, cherubs, sunrise, romance

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Added: 2022-05-21

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End Paper: the young mad read to her from a small book.The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The end-papers (inside the covers) are printed with an untitled design signed by the author. The picture shows a mediaeval scene: a young lady on an ornate seat in front of a log fire; behind her is a [...]

Keywords: romance, love, people, fire, fireplaces, books, reading, colour

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Added: 2011-08-17

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Printer’s ornament with birdsThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Two birds touch beaks, perhaps a mother feeding a baby, in this printer’s ornament, used as a tailpiece (tail-piece) at the end of a chapter. The design includes a harp, roses, ribbon or bunting and [...]

Keywords: ornaments, music, romance, roses, birds, musical instruments, harps, colour

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Added: 2014-08-26

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Frontispiece: Beata BeatrixDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

Beata Beatrix . . . Tate Gallery From a painting by Rossetti. Because mine eyes can never have their fill Of looking at my lady’s lovely face,         I will so fix my gaze That I may become bless’d, [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

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Added: 2008-07-25

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Frontispiece: A bride’s dreamDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Traum einter Braut. Mit Genehmigung der Photographischen Gesellschaft in Berlin. Which is, A Bride’s Dream, with permission of the Photographic Society of Berlin. Here there bride rests her head on [...]

Keywords: romance, love, marriage, women, people, cherubs, putti, nudity, bare feet, dreams, trees, fantasy, greyscale

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Added: 2025-04-19

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Border of Roses and ThornsDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

A decorative oval border or roses and thorns that was around a chapter title in this book.

Keywords: borders, frames, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-23

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The Day DreamDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

The Day-Dream. – Ionides Collection South Kensington. From a painting by Rossetti. Within the branching shade of Reverie Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be     Like woman’s budding day-dr [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

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Added: 2008-07-25

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The Ring on My FingerModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893)

Du Ring an meinem Finger, which is, The Ring on my Finger. A barefoot peasant girl sits on a wheelbarrow stacked high with sheaves of wheat. She is admiring a ring on her second-smallest finger: an en [...]

Keywords: women, romance, engagement, bare feet, farming, harvest, wheat, fields, greyscale

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Added: 2022-05-25

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Love Birds KissingIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

Two birds (doves?) touch their beaks together over a rose in this romantic engraving.

Keywords: romance, love, birds, kissing, roses, doves, flowers, greyscale

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Added: 2014-09-21

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Full-page border with bird, flowers, ivyIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This engraved border surrounded the table of contents in the original book. The text ended one blank line above the ornament at lower middle, although if you needed a little extra space you could dele [...]

Keywords: borders, gardens, flowers, birds, plants, ivy, creepers, spring, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2023-01-12

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Decorative Initial Letter IGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A German Fraktur letter “I” (or J) used as an initial drop cap, with a winged putti or cherub holding a rose and delivering a love-letter sealed with a heart-shaped kiss to a young woman or gitl sitti [...]

Keywords: initials, letteri, letterj, cherubs, romance, people, greyscale

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Added: 2010-08-07

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Cherub delivering a love-letterGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A cherub carries a rose and a love-letter to a seated girl in this romantic engraving; it illustrated a poem, and was originally a decorative initial letter I; in this version I removed the letter and [...]

Keywords: cherubs, people, girls, romance, dresses, colour

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Added: 2010-08-07

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Decorative initial “A” with girl and rosesGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A beautiful girl stands on, and holds, a ros biar. She has flowers in her hair and carries a flower-basket. A fancy capital letter ‘A’ is in the top right. This is a vignetted decorative initial, used [...]

Keywords: lettera, vignetted initials, initials, girls, people, roses, flowers, historiated initials, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2014-11-03

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The Triumph of LoveArt-Journal (1850)

The Triumph of Love Engraved by W. Roffe, from the group in marble by P Mac Dowell, R.A. Note: the sculptor’s name is written variously as Mac Dowell in two words or as Macdowell, both in this issue [...]

Keywords: statuary, sculpture, people, love, affection, men, women, cupid, cherubs, putti, children, bare feet, boys, women, men, nudity, romance, sandals, greyscale

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Added: 2017-12-29

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Chapter-head with cherubs, flowers, vines and birdsIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This chapter-head was above the start of the first chapter in the book. There’s flowers (marigolds?) both open and closed, leaves, and two naked children (putti or cherubs) each holding a string of fl [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, borders, cherubs, putti, flowers, roses, marigolds, foliated borders, floriated borders, inhabited borders, vines, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2019-01-21

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter B by Valerio SpadaItalian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “B” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: A couple sit together in the foreground, holding hands; in the backgrouns smoke rises from a buildi [...]

Keywords: letterb, initials, people, romance, frames, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-22

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Woman with initial letter “V”Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A decorative Fraktur (German) initial letter “V” in which a naked woman with flowers in herhair is kept modest by a cherub waving some cloth; another cherub clings merrily to a carved object to which [...]

Keywords: initials, letterv, romance, nudity, women, people, cherubs, greyscale

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Added: 2010-08-07

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Romantic Woman with Cherubs and CartoucheGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A blank cartouche or frame for a sign is placed on this image so you could use it as a decorative initital or drop cap; a woman is surrounded by signs of love. It is a version of this decorative lette [...]

Keywords: romance, nudity, women, people, cherubs, bare feet, greyscale

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Added: 2010-08-08

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Decorative initial letter “B” with boy and bookGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

This decorative initial letter B was used as a drop cap alongside a poem. It features an open book with a quill pen, old-fashioned spectacles scrollwork, roses, fruit, a styilized su with rays shoning [...]

Keywords: romance, cherubs, nudity, letterb, initials, books, pens, writing, sun, roses, flowers, cartici, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2012-10-14

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168.—Lovers in the bushes.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A gentleman and a woman, the man with a formal jacket with long tails and the woman with a long dress and a broad-brimmed hat or bonnet walk through bushes and trees, arm in arm.

Keywords: people, romance, lovers, costumes, formal, walking, bushes, greyscale

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Added: 2011-06-13

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