Items matching roses (results page 1)

Title Page Detail: Basket of FlowersCraftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)

This woodcut of a basket or tub of chrysanthemums and I think roses is in a mediaeval style, and appeared as a page decoration on the title page of the book.

Keywords: flowers, ornaments, roses, greyscale

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Added: 2011-04-12

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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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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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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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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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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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Border of wine and rosesStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

This border includes a design that i think is roses and a carafe of wine; there’s a typographic ornament repeated round the page. The ornaments are slightly irregular and wavy, which i thought went wi [...]

Keywords: borders, romance, wine, roses, full-page borders, typographic ornaments, purple, colour

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Added: 2020-11-16

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Pierrot Galant [The romantic peasant]Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880)

A French troubadour or wadering minstrel, with his lute over his shoulder, presents a gift with roses to a lady. There is a sketchy suggestion of curtains on the right and of an animal-fur rug on the [...]

Keywords: romance, people, couples, musical instruments, roses, sketches, greyscale

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Added: 2017-02-08

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Full-page border with roses, black and whiteIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This full-page border or page surround or frame, has roses in bloom along with insects. It was engraved with black and white lines so can reproduce very well. The engraving is signed (I think; it is a [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, roses, flowers, surrounds, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2024-08-04

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Decorative initial “L” with wild flowers and weedsThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

A decorative initial capital letter “L” used at the start of a chapter. This one featuers thistles, clover (or shamrock), and a flower that could be a daisy. Update: it’s thistles (Scotland), shamrock [...]

Keywords: initials, letterl, flowers, weeds, wild flowers, thistles, shamrocks, roses, england, scotland, ireland, symbols, greyscale

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Added: 2010-08-11

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Cupid and rose briarIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A putto, or small naked boy, here carries Cupid’s bow, the sign of love and romance. He hides beneath a rose briar with thorns, leave, and a beautiful engraving of a rose. Perfect for a Valentine’s ca [...]

Keywords: cupid, romance, flowers, roses, nudity, putti, greyscale

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Added: 2014-01-13

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A walk in a romantic dreamAtalanta Magazine (1888)

A finely-dressed lady and a prince, a young man, walk together through the grass. The prince carries a rose: clearly they are in love. In the background, a peacock fans its tail, and the prince’s do [...]

Keywords: people, birds, peacocks, dogs, romance, roses, greyscale

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Added: 2010-02-08

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Saint Elizabeth of HungaryLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

St.Elizabeth of Hungary (1207 – 1231) is a patron saint of bakers, beggars, brides, charities and of the death of children. She was a princess and at the age of sixteen was taught by Franciscan friar [...]

Keywords: saints, people, women, xmas, christmas, nativity, roses, miracles, christianity, religion, men, forests, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2020-10-31

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Birth of the RoseArt-Journal (1850)

Engraved by T. W. Knight from the statue by B. Jennings. This statue won first prize for sculpture in the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was given to Birmingham Free Library in 1914; I do not know wheth [...]

Keywords: romance, flowers, roses, boys, people, men, statuary, cupid, cupids, angels, greyscale

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Added: 2017-01-28

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Mellon’s Baby Food with baby and rosesStrong’s Book of Designs (1917)

Meant apparently as a cover design for a bulletin, there is a chapterhead ornament of roses with vertical Art Deco stems, and also a rectangle with a baby sitting amidst leaves and thorns (ouch), the [...]

Keywords: babies, borders, chapterheads, roses, flowers, art deco, lettering, greyscale

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Added: 2024-08-29

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Festoon or Garland of RosesJugend [German art magazine] (1900)

This is a detail from the back cover of the bound collection of magazines for the year 1900. The image is of a string of red roses helpd up into a festoon or banner by tapes or ribbons, making a sort [...]

Keywords: roses, flowers, ornaments, borders, festoons, colour, red

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Added: 2014-06-21

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My Wandering BoyPictures of old books (2003)

There’s a freshly cut red rose on this old hymn book. The music is open at “Where is my Wandering Boy?” and also “Give Me thy Heart.” Underneath you see the tuning pins, felts and keyboard of the gra [...]

Keywords: colour, pictures of books, roses, romance, pianos, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2006-07-11

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1581 Psalter with RosePictures of old books (2003)

Warm sunlight streams down on this ancient prayer book, bible and psalter, open to the Lord’s Prayer set to music. A rose lies on the open book. There are also some page scans of this Geneva Bible. It [...]

Keywords: colour, books, pictures of books, roses, romance, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2006-07-11

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MemoriesPictures of old books (2003)

A photograph of an old leather-bound photograph album with a candle and a rose nearby. Sunlight, polished wood, and emotion.

This work is dedicated to the Public Domain.

Keywords: colour, pictures of books, candles, romance, roses, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

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Added: 2006-07-11

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Withered Love (clinical version)Pictures of old books (2003)

An old astrology book lies open, but on the open page is a withered rose. Love has faded. There is also a version of this photo with romantic colours. In both cases the background is close to white t [...]

Keywords: pictures of books, colour, roses, romance

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Added: 2006-12-27

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