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139x200, 508x733, 677x977, 903x1303 | Clip-art: Victorian Floriated BorderThe Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860) A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! The original (this version) was black; there are also brown and green border version, and a sidways, or po [...] Keywords: borders, floral, floriated borders, decoration, floriated borders, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2011-02-17 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 159x200, 1888x2380, 595x750, 944x1190 | Frontispiece: The Barbican, SandwichEngland’s Outpost (1930) A wide arch with a roof and two circular turrets one on each side, at one end of a bridge. There are boats moored nearby, punts perhaps, and it looks like three people, maybe two men and a boy, are ab [...] Keywords: bridges, turrets, water, rivers, people, men, boats, windows, circular, weather vanes, roofs, tudor architecture, greyscale Places shown: Sandwich; Kent; England Added: 2025-10-14 + S K L R N |
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1283x1815, 141x200, 642x908 | Frontispiece - Portrait of Goethe with his signatureGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882) A portrait of the writer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe). Note: German copyright today is 90 years after death, but in 1882 it was shorter, and I do not know if this image is out of copyright. Keywords: portraits, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2010-01-30 + S K L |
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1210x900, 2420x1800, 269x200, 4840x3600, 750x558 | Chester, from the Alford Road.The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875) Probably this view was drawn from the road between Chester and Aldford, as it’s written today, at the bank of the River Dee. Keywords: views, cityscapes, cows, animals, water, rivers, boats, towers, trees, fences, cities, cityscapes, towers, churches, buildings, cathedrals, greyscale Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England Added: 2018-08-07 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1100x1203, 1467x1604, 183x200, 619x677, 825x902 | Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit AuberFamous Composers and their Music (1901) From an engraving by G. Deblois, 1867. Auber was a French composer from Paris, born in 1782 and died in May 1871. He wrote a series of comic oeras with Scribe and Auber, including “Leicester” (based o [...] Keywords: portraits, musicians, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2010-11-14 + S K L |
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125x200, 522x835, 696x1114 | Title PageThe Leisure Hour (1904) The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading. Volume: 1904 – 5. 4 Bouverie St., London E.C. Atists in this volume: Barraud, Allan Copping, Harold Dunlop, M. P. Forestire, A. Finnemore, [...] Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-05-13 + S K L |
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1246x855, 1661x1140, 292x200, 701x481, 934x641 | Frontispiece: United States Capitol, WashingtonElements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825) Engraving (probably a woodcut) of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. The building was burned down in the War of 1812 by the British (from Canada), and this engraving was made before the new c [...] Keywords: buildings, greyscale Places shown: Washington; DC; USA Added: 2009-01-25 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1440x900, 1680x1050, 304x200 | Frontispiece 1: A Titan of the polar sea lazily drifting with the currentWreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912) Illustration News Service A photograph of an iceberg; it is not, I think, the one that sunk the Titanic; there is a photograph of that iceberg elsewhere in the book. Keywords: icebergs, water, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-09-24 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1113x1530, 146x200, 626x860, 835x1148 | The grand Door of Barfreston Church in Kent.The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) On some of these arches is commonly over the key-stone represented God the Father, or our Saviour surrounded with angels; and below a melange of foliage, animals, often ludicrous, and sometimes even i [...] Keywords: entrances, norman architecture, churches, greyscale Places shown: Barfreston; Kent; England Added: 2008-04-23 + S K L R N |
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1123x1359, 165x200, 174x211, 310x375, 473x573, 631x764, 842x1019, 87x106 | Ornament: CornucopiaThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) This antique typographic ornament was used as a chapter tail-piece at the end of a section of the preface. You could also use it as a decorative page element. This was scanned from a 1780s book, and i [...] Keywords: ornaments, cornucopias, fruit, harvest, horns, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2008-03-25 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1318x738, 1757x984, 2342x1313, 357x200, 988x554 | Carne or Carnedd, from the Druidical Antiquities plateThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) A cairn is a pile of stones or rocks used to mark a place, perhaps a burial. This is one item from a full-page plate, Druidical Antiquities Keywords: druids, ruins, megaliths, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-08-05 + S K L |
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1046x813, 1394x1084, 1955x1448, 257x200, 784x610 | Kist-vain, from the Druidical Antiquities plateThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) This is an engraving of a kist-tomb. Kist is an old name for chest or coffin, and vain used also to mean empty or pointless, as, in vain. This is one item from a full-page plate, Druidical Antiquities Keywords: ruins, druids, megaliths, tombs, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-08-05 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1089x941, 1452x1254, 231x200, 817x705 | Cromleh near Dundalk Ireland, from the Druidical Antiquities plate.The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) This is an engraving of Proleek Dolmen, part of a megalithic portal tomb, although this should not be taken to imply that there is a burial chamber. The capstone is almost four metres long and over t [...] Keywords: druids, megaliths, ruins, tombs, greyscale Places shown: Dundalk; County Louth; Ireland Added: 2005-08-05 + S K L R N |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1200x900, 1600x1200, 267x200 | Lanyon Cromleh Cornwall. From the Druidical Antiquities plate.The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783) This appears to be an engraving of a dolmen called Lanyon Quoit in Cornwall. The monument was actually destroyed in 1815 by a storm, and was rebuilt incorrectly. This engraving is of the original mon [...] Keywords: druids, tombs, ruins, megaliths, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Bosiliack; Cornwall; England Added: 2005-08-05 + S K L R N |
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