Items matching winter (results page 1)

Vintage gold circular leaf border or frameThe Circling Year (1870)

Today people looking at this circular wreath design stamped in gold would think first of Christmas: there’s holly and ivy and what could pass for ornaments. But if you look more closely it represents [...]

Keywords: borders, circular, gold, winter, seasons, christmas, xmas, frames, cartici, ornaments, frames, holly, ivy, mistletoe, leaves, foliate borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-01-20

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Frontispiece: The Snow Sweepers (1865)The Circling Year (1870)

A man in boots and tall hat, scarf, jacket and rolled-up trousers, stands on the steps of a grand front porch with stone columns while two faces peer out of a window in this city scene. A boy on the s [...]

Keywords: winter, street scenes, snow, people, cities, pillars, children, boys, men, snow shovels, victorian costume, top hats, colour

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2018-01-20

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Title page for Circling the YearThe Circling Year (1870)

The title page for ‘Circling the Year”for 1870 has a leafy border framing two large flowers at the top, and representations of the year beneath: spring with flowers; summer with warmth from a starry s [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, borders, spring, summer, autumn, winter, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-02-18

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JanuaryHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A mean wearing warm boots, coat and hat walks through the snow, blowing on his hands to warm them, and is accompanied by a dog. The roofs of a nearby farm and house are covered in snow. In the sky is [...]

Keywords: snow, animals, dogs, people, winter, months, calendars, january, aquarius, zodiac, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-18

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The Wassail BowlPeter Parley’s Annual (1856)

A bearded man in a tall hat and cravat, eighteenth or early nineteenth century leggings, and with a garland round his head reclines, one hand raised. Nearby, in the undergrowth and sitting on a rock, [...]

Keywords: christmas, wassail, people, december, winter, bowls, beards, bare feet, religion, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-12-14

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Howsham Hall.Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

A man on a horse, with a gun and hunting-dogs, approaching a country manor-house over snow. It looks like a storm is coming. There are ancient trees here. The text accompanying this is as follows: H [...]

Keywords: manors, buildings, snow, people, trees, dogs, winter, colour, christmas

Places shown: Malton; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2007-02-15

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Blow, Blow, thou winter windA Painter’s Anthology (1924)

This man struggling in high winter wind illustrates a sonnet by Shakespeare.

Keywords: winter, people, trees, cold, wind, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-03-27

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Four Seasons Personified, and Zodiac Signs PersonifiedTypo Ornamenty (1990)

The four seasons, each represented by a woman in a long dress, are shown inside a border with fancy corners; to the right are the pictures for the twelve signs of the zodiac. Spring is shown as full o [...]

Keywords: seasons, spring, summer, autumn, winter, zodiac, astrology, people, bare feet, women, symbols, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-08-19

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December Night (Dezembernacht)Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893)

Dezembernacht. An engraving by Richard Bong after a picture by R. Weihe. In a path in the woods, snow-covered, in moonlight, are two deer, a mother and her child. In the background a light gleams from [...]

Keywords: winter, christmas, xmas, forests, trees, snow, cold, deer, animals, shadows, light, rural scenes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-12-25

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The Blizzard in America; Dead Boy in the SnowHome Words for Heart and Hearth (1888)

The engraving shows a bly lying face up in teh snow, partly covered by it; from the accompanying text we know he is dead: Lost in the Snow: The Blizzard in America All hearts have been touched by the [...]

Keywords: boys, death, children, people, snow, winter, grief, blizzards, dying, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-08-11

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In the story-books.A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)

Summer fading, winter comes— Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books.   Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon; Still we find the fl [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, children, winter, comfort, reading, books, windows, snow, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-21

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Angel of the New yearModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

A winged angel, a woman, floats over a snow-covered village, a church and houses and farms visible in the background. She carries a severed evergreen tree over one shoulder and a shining lantern in he [...]

Keywords: christmas, new year, angels, women, people, dresses, bare feet, trees, winter, snow, villages, religion, christianity, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-26

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887.—Men Skating At Night.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Five men are skating on a frozen pond at night, leaving trails in the ice. They smile. They are wearing top hats and eighteenth-century dress. One of them carries a cane. In the background, wintry tr [...]

Keywords: people, winter, christmas, sport, costumes, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-12-13

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Lantern-carrierLondon (Volume I) (1841)

A bearded man wearing a broad-brimmed hat and wearing a heavy winter coat walks forward carrying a spear in his left hand and a lit lantern, or lanthorn, in his right. ‘Lanthorn, and a whole candle li [...]

Keywords: people, street scenes, lanterns, weapons, spears, beards, winter, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2012-12-15

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Adrift from The Snow QueenArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

A watercolour painting of a helpless little girl adrift in a rowing boat without oars, on the wrong side of the river from a distant village with a castle. Arthur Rackham made the picture to illustrat [...]

Keywords: people, children, girls, boats, water, despair, fear, villages, castles, paintings, winter, colour, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

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On the SerpentineThe Circling Year (1870)

A night-time Winter scene in Victorian London: it’s the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, and it’s frozen over with ice. People are skatin, carrying burning torches to light their way; in the foreground a [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, ice, winter, holidays, skating, bridges, crowds, torchlight, roast chestnuts, people, trees, lakes, rivers, colour

Places shown: Hyde Park; London; England

Added: 2018-06-09

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Decorative initial letter C with holly and icicles and snowThe Circling Year (1870)

A decorative drop cap letter C for Christmas, with a sprig of holly and snow on the C and icicles hanging down, engraved so it will reproduce at any size.

Keywords: xmas, christmas, letterc, letters, decorated initials, initials, holly, snow, winter, icicles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-07-21

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The Christmas WagonThe Circling Year (1870)

A covered wagon, drawn by four pairs of horses, crosses a snow-covered stone bridge over a river in this chromolithograph. I’m not sure whether the wagon brings gifts or relatives or is coming to take [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, chromolithographs, colour, horses, wagons, carts, bridges, snow, winter, rivers, water, trees, people, cold, travel

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2018-02-21

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Winter GamesThe Circling Year (1870)

A group of children are playing, i think on an icy pond; two of them have just fallen over. They are dressed in Victorian middle-class clothing, with caps and coats and striped trousers and boots or s [...]

Keywords: winter, children, playing, games, xmas, villages, rural scenes, genre painting, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-04-17

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DecemberHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1543)An old tonsured man wearing a monk’s robe and a gown is supping lustily from a giant bowl of liquid. He rides a goat, representing the lasciviousness of the pagan festivals at December, as [...]

Keywords: people, bowls, winter, animals, goats, monks, calendars, months, december, christmas, religion, wassail, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-11-06

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