Items matching spooky (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Burkard Keller of Yburg.Legends of the Black Forest (1890)

A ghostly woman glowing white floats in the air, her bare feet not touching the ground, as she reaches out to a knight, kneeling in awestruck adoration. In the background a statue of the same woman at [...]

Keywords: people, ghosts, spirit, spooky, owls, forests, knights, colour

Places shown: Baden; Germany

Added: 2009-03-24

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Frontispiece, Judges V. 20.Astrology (1806)

The engraving opposite the title page of this erly 19th century (1806) book on Astrology clearly tries to place a Biblical and Christian veneer over the proceedings. It falls perhaps a little wide of [...]

Keywords: astrology, temples, people, zodiac, spooky, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-23

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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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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

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12.—Gaulish Deity. Hesus.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A Celtic war god

Keywords: spirit, druids, gods, religion, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-03-13

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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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Catacombs in AlexandriaPictureseque Egypt Vol I (1878)

“By far the most magnificent portion [of Alexandria] was the Bruchium (granery, or height), bathed by the waters of the Great Harbour, and adjoining the oldest part of the city, namely, the original f [...]

Keywords: death, interiors, caves, catacombs, tombs, spooky, ancient egypt, greyscale

Places shown: Alexandria; Egypt

Added: 2006-02-10

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Young BekieSome British Ballads (1919)

The picture shows a young man lying on the floor of a prison cell or castle dungeon [donjon], his hands on his head, and with one ankle chained to the wall. There are a great number of rats or mice i [...]

Keywords: interiors, prisons, animals, people, chains, colour, spooky

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2006-05-13

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In a Gloomy WoodInferno: The Vision of Hell (1870)

In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growt [...]

Keywords: forests, spooky, people, trees, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-28

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Initial letter T with sundial and scytheIn the Grip of the Corsair (1898)

This capital letter “T” is a vignetted initial—that is, an initial letter with a drawing around it rather than inside it. The vignette, or scene, shows a fluted stone pillar or pedestal with a sundial [...]

Keywords: lettert, initials, death, spooky, scythes, sundials, vignetted initials, fields, outdoors, time, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-30

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In Needwood ForestThe Story of Some English Shires (1897)

“. . . the Roman road from leicester to Chester skirted the Forest of Needwood, and was held by a station at Uttoxeter” (p. 177) In Needwood Forest is some of Britain’s most ancient woodland. It is ma [...]

Keywords: forests, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Needwood Forest; Tutbury; Staffordshire; England

Added: 2005-09-20

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18. Five SkullsFabrica... (1543)

The top-left skull here is normal, and the others are abnormal.

Keywords: anatomy, skulls, death, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-11-03

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Arches of Cloister of S. Aubin’s Abbey, AngersA Short History of the English People (1902)

The Abbey of S. Aubin, founded in Merovingian times, seems to have been rebuilt by Geoffrey Greygown and Fulk the Black. “Only one huge tower remains, but fragments of it are still to be seen embedde [...]

Keywords: ruins, pillars, arches, abbeys, occult, spooky, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Angers; Maine-et-Loire; France

Added: 2008-07-07

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289.—Coffin and Grave Clothes.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An Anglo-saxon drawing of the raising of Lazarus from the dead (an early account of a zombie in the Bible?), showing the Saxon funeral clothes and coffin. One of the two figures on the left is Jesus. [...]

Keywords: jesus, religion, death, spooky, saxon england, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-11-04

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The giants tore up treesArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

This painting was for The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1906). Two giants persenting as male, beardless, dressed in animal skins, barefoot, are each wielding a tree, roots and all, as a weapon, i [...]

Keywords: giants, ogres, trees, bare feet, colour, fantasy, illustrations for children, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

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Dark brown fantasy watercolour borderArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

This border of symbols, grapes, eyes, and dark daisies, was painted by Arthur Rackham to surround the battle of giants.

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders, foliated borders, spooky, full-page borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

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Dunstan and the DevilRoyal Children of English History (1904)

A young man (the devil in disguise) kneels on a window-sill looking in at a very frightened person within. Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, was one of the most sagacious of these monks. He was an [...]

Keywords: spooky, people, windows, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-11-11

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Hobgoblin HallThe Leisure Hour (1904)

A ruined hall, with cobwebs galore, a gothic mansion, a scene of death and decay, of neglect and ruin, a goth dream, perhaps the home of Victor or Victoria from the film Corpse Bride! “HOBGOBLIN HALL [...]

Keywords: manors, wallpaper, backgrounds, ruins, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-24

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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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A Procession in the Catacomb of CallistusRome (1905)

Navigating the underground paths of the dead in Rome, carrying only a flickering torch to fend off the darkness! The note printed on the tissue-paper protecting this image reads: The nucleus of the gr [...]

Keywords: death, caves, people, roman remains, catacombs, interiors, colour, spooky

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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