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Detail from title pageCambridge (1920)

A line drawing of a castle tower with leaves in the foreground.

Keywords: sketches, castles, towers, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-06-21

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Title Page, Gaskonští KadetiGaskonští Kadeti (1906)

The title page is in Czech and has a library stamp. There is a sketch of maybe fifteen men wearing chain mail and round helmets fighting with sworeds in a close mêlée. HENI de GORSSE a JOSEPH JACQUIN [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-09-19

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Frontispiece: Jester and MonkThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A woman in a red jester’s outfit, including a jester’s hat with bells, and a black-robed monk wearing sandals, and with a black hood, hold hands as if preparing to dance.

Keywords: people, jesters, monks, sketches, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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Battle of KnightsGaskonští Kadeti (1906)

Men are being nasty to one another, as men are wont to do, some on foot and some riding horses, in this close mêlée or fight.

This is a detail from the title page.

Keywords: battles, sketches, drawing, men, people, horses, soldiers, weapons, swords, fights, hats, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: Gascony; France

Added: 2024-12-01

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Initial letter I with Transitional CapitalEnglish Cathedrals (1910)

This letter “I” is set about a sketch of an English “transitional” capital from the Galilee Chapel of Durham cathedral. The decorated top-part of a pillar is called a capital, and transitional architc [...]

Keywords: capitals, sketches, architecture, historiated initials, letteri, initials, pillars, architecture, transitional architecture, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Durham; County Durham; England

Added: 2025-03-31

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Page detail: Art Neuveau borderThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A detail from the January Week 1 page showing the decorative border, which repeats on every fourth page throughout most of the book. A cat stands on a skull.

Keywords: borders, cats, skulls, sketches, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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Page 5. The scent of the cherry-blossomsOut to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

“The scent of the cherry-blossoms blown After us, in the roadway lone” (p. 5) [page 4 is blank] The pencil sketch reproduced here shows a stream or river running past some trees, with some blossom in [...]

Keywords: sketches, trees, water, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: USA

Added: 2006-01-16

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II.—Brasenose College Quadrangle and St. Mary’s SpireThe Charm of Oxford (1920)

“Nowhere, except at Cambridge, can the series of architectural works be paralleles, and at both universities, the charm of their ancient buildings is enhanced by their beautiful setting in college gar [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, greyscale

Places shown: Brasenose College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-01-14

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John Dickens (Father of Charles)Charles Dickens Rare Print Collection (1900)

JA portrait of John Dickens, father of Charles Dickens; engraved by Edwin Roffe after a pencil drawing.

Keywords: dickens, men, people, portraits, sketches, jacket, balding, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-06-01

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I. Aetna over TaorminaIn the Land of the Temples (1915)

“For years I wanted to make this drawing—and for days after I reached Taormina I had to wait before I could make it: for a curtain of mist hung over the sea and land. Then suddenly in all its glory t [...]

Keywords: temples, mountains, sketches, ruins, colour

Places shown: Taormina; Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2003-12-14

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The Well of KnowledgeThe Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The jester leads the donkey (or mule) to the well of knowedge (written, quaintly, “Knowledge. HerWelle”) but, stubbronly, the mule refuses to drink. The mule is wearing the board and gown of a univers [...]

Keywords: colour, humour, jesters, wells, sketches, cartoons

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-07

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Tonbridge, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

Sketch of an Elizabethan cottage in Kent.

“Kent, Sussex and Surrey are three of the most delightful counties in England”

Keywords: houses, cottages, windows, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Tonbridge; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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115.—Rome—A fragment after Piranesi.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An engraving showing a fragment of a statue, or, more likely, a reproduction of a drawing by Piranesi of a Roman statue.

A short 1812 biography of Piranesi

Keywords: statuary, sketches, art, people, roman remains, shields, ruins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-11

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Biddenden, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed Sydney R Jones 1906.

Biddenden village Web site

Keywords: cottages, houses, windows, sketches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Biddenden; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-16

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HRH The Prince of WalesThese Be Your Gods (1929)

The Prince of Wales in 1929, when this book was written, was His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Cornwall, who later became (briefly, until he acceded) King Edward VIII. “I am glad that I was no [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, sketches, caricatures, cartoons, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-03

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Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed SRJ (Sydney R Jones) 1906. George and Frederick Hardy, George O’Neil and Thomas Webster formed the Cranbrook Art Colony here in the 1900s. Historic Kent notes about the village of Cranbrook “Ke [...]

Keywords: streets, cottages, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-24

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III.—View in Radcliffe SquareThe Charm of Oxford (1920)

“The visitor to Oxford often asks—“Where is the University?” The proper answer is: “The University is everywhere,” for the colleges are all parts of it. But if a distinction must be made, and some b [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, buildings, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-01-31

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Folly BridgeOxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

“Any places of strength in Oxford would command the roads leading to the north and west, and the secure, raised paths that ran through the flooded fens to the ford or bridge, if bridge there then was, [...]

Keywords: water, bridges, people, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-10-04

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Winged Mermaid from p. 199 rectoBuch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

A fifteenth-century drawing of a mermaid with wings (and breast) taken from fol. 199r of a (somewhat dubious) textbook on natural history. The mermaid has the trunk and head of a woman, the tail of a [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, mermaids, paintings, colour, drolleries, drawings, sketches

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-02-14

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II. The Theatre, SegestaIn the Land of the Temples (1915)

“Nothing, not even Taormina, is more magnificent than the set scene of the Theatre; how poor and mean must have been the forgotten mummers! The scene will exist till the end of time—even though scarc [...]

Keywords: temples, mountains, amphitheatres, sketches, ruins, ancient greek remains, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Segesta; Trapani; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2003-12-14

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