1522x1539, 198x200, 741x750 | Corner Bookcase OrnamentTypo Ornamenty (1990) This vignette or round image could ba a tailpiece, an ornament at the end of a chapter, or a decoration for an article about books or reading, perhaps, or a private secret place where we love to go, w [...] Keywords: ornaments, books, pictures of books, decoration, tailpieces, round, circular, bookcases, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2022-09-20 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1238x1211, 204x200, 750x734 | Roundel with roses and thornsThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930) This roundel, or circular wreath illustration, was made as a typographical decoration for the end of one of Spenser’s sonnets. It features flowers with red petals, although the leaves and stems were p [...] Keywords: decoration, ornaments, wreaths, flowers, leaves, frames, tailpieces, roundels, colour Places shown: none Added: 2015-02-01 + S K L |
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1320x1238, 213x200, 750x703 | Roundel with stylized blue flowersThe Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930) This roundel, or circular wreath illustration, was made as a typographical decoration for the end of one of Spenser’s sonnets. It features flowers with blue petals, perhaps meant to be forget-me-not. [...] Keywords: decoration, ornaments, flowers, wreaths, frames, leaves, tailpieces, roundels, colour Places shown: none Added: 2015-03-04 + S K L |
Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required | 1250x786, 2500x1571, 318x200, 750x471 | Tailpiece of hunting paraphernaliaOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845) This arrangement of antlers, quiver and arrows, hunting horn, spears, dagger, fur skins and iphone appeared at the end of Book Two, Chapter One, from the Norman Conquet [year 1066] to the death of Kin [...] Keywords: tailpieces, antlers, horns, quivers, arrows, weapons, spears, hunting horns, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2025-05-13 + S K L |
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| 1009x999, 200x200, 2017x1997, 750x743 | Endpiece: well-pump with horse-troughOld English Country Cottages (1906) A woodcut showing a stone trough for drinking-water for animals such as horses, sheep, cattle. The iron pump is fastened to an upright wooden post. This picture was used as a decorative tailpiece to m [...] Keywords: pumps, water-troughs, troughs, handles, machinery, tailpieces, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2019-06-16 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x640, 1152x720, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 320x200 | Crumbling elegance: floriated tailpiece with criblé backgroundSagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882) This typographic decoration was printed as a tail-piece at the end of a chapter. The stippled white dots on a black background are called a criblé effect; this style was popular in the sixteenth centu [...] Keywords: ornament, tailpieces, typography, criblé, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2014-01-04 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | |
1384x439, 2767x877, 623x200, 700x222 | Tailpiece with grotesque gargoyle figureMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1881) This ornate end-of-chapter ornament, or tail-piece, includes a grotesque horned head with a hollow mouth, as for a drain-spout of a gargoyle. Keywords: tailpieces, gargoyles, grotesques, mouths, mythical creatures, ornament, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2020-08-19 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 138x200, 1730x2500, 519x750, 865x1250 | Tailpiece with peacockFabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887) This peacock is standing on a tiny island with a small broken tree. It is surrounded by vines with berries. This tailpiece was used as a decoration to mark the end of a chapter. Keywords: tailpieces, birds, peacocks, islands, ornaments, decoration, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2025-05-17 + S K L |
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1063x685, 200x129, 2125x1369, 310x200 | Tailpiece ornament - Harp with oak leaves and mistletoeVictor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881) This woodcut was used as decoration to mark the end of a chapter; it features oak branches, with leaves and acorns in their cups, and also misteltoe branches with leaves and the white berries, a harp [...] Keywords: ornaments, tailpieces, musical instruments, harps, mistletoe, leaves, oak, acorns, christmas, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2015-08-29 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x1400, 146x200, 2048x2800, 512x700 | A Mighty QueenDie Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (1888) This engraving shows a queen holding her globus cruciger (an orb with a cross on top symbolizing spiritual and temporal power) and a wand or sceptre (or possibly a spear); she wears a crown and what m [...] Keywords: people, royalty, queens, cherubs, religion, christianity, tailpieces, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2017-09-22 + S K L |
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1219x739, 2437x1477, 300x200 | Typographic ornament with horse’s head and harp stringsLa Civilizacion (1881) This tailpiece, or typographic ornament, was used at the end of a chapter. It includes a horse’s head perhaps in a stylized horseshoe, with an anvil or yoke behind it, a harp and other musical instrum [...] Keywords: ornaments, tailpieces, horses, animals, symbols, anvils, yokes, harps, musical instruments, ivy, mistletoe, decorations, ribbons, christmas, xmas, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-11-05 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1253x1010, 248x200, 2506x2020, 750x605 | Tailpiece with FishermanA Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737) This elaborate frame, surmounted by a basket of flowers, was used to mark the end of a chapter in the printed book. The central design features a man fishing with rod. Keywords: frames, tailpieces, ornaments, fishing, people, cartici, flowers, scrollwork, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2015-01-15 + S K L |
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1207x1261, 192x200, 679x709, 905x946 | Cul-de-lampe composé par Mariller, gravé par Marquet.Musée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1880) A tail-piece, or end-of-chapter ornament, featuring a putto or cherub standing on a shelf to which are chainedsome books and, underneath, a bat or gargoyle. There is also an ink-pot and two quill pens [...] Keywords: tailpieces, books, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, pictures of books, pens, feathers, gargoyles, romance, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-06-11 + S K L |
Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required | 1371x511, 2742x1022, 537x200 | Tailpiece ornament: flowerMy Boy Life (1882) This woodcut of a flower on a stem with a leaf was used as an end-of-chapter ornament, or tailpiece, in the second book bound in this one volume; the book is called “Ben Owen: A Lancashire Story.” Keywords: tailpieces, ornaments, flowers, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2015-09-26 + S K L |
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