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Front Cover, Moderne Kunst 14Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XIV (1900)

The cover for the year’s collected issues of this 1900 magazine is roughly A3 sized (11.5 by 16.5 inches or so), and features a drawing of a topless woman holding a branch of what appears to be a thor [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, women, nudity, cherubs, sunrise, romance

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-21

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Title Page, Cosmography and AstrologyThe Gentleman’s Recreation (1686)

The title page to the section of The Gentleman’s Recreation is well-known for having the misspelling Cosmgrarhy at the top left. What is more interesting about it is the way Cosmography and Astronomy [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, graphic design, trees, diagrams, astrology, people, women, angels, heraldry

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-12-12

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Rosalind. In an Old Monastery Garden.The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

This painting of a young lady, Rosalind, in a (sketched) garden shows the young woman wearing brown dress, cloak and boots, and looking very much a product of 1914. She has red lips.

Keywords: people, women, gardens, art, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-08-17

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Aunt Silvia in her DomainLook at the Bright Side (1883)

A small girl plays with a toy horse, dolls, a doll-house and a sheep on wheels; she crouches on the floor. Behind her a boy holds a stick. An older girl talks to the servant, who is dark-skinned, and [...]

Keywords: people, children, women, slavery, slaves, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-06-18

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Frontispiece: A bride’s dreamDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Traum einter Braut. Mit Genehmigung der Photographischen Gesellschaft in Berlin. Which is, A Bride’s Dream, with permission of the Photographic Society of Berlin. Here there bride rests her head on [...]

Keywords: romance, love, marriage, women, people, cherubs, putti, nudity, bare feet, dreams, trees, fantasy, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-04-19

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Colour plate: Morris DanceOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This plate is inside the front cover, before the title-page, but I don’t think it’s appropriate to call it a frontispiece: it doesn’t face the title page. It shows some jesters, harlequins and dancers [...]

Keywords: morris dancing, dancers, costumes, robin hood, maid marian, medieval costumes, jesters, men, women, kings, queens, colour, stained glass, windows, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-30

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The Ring on My FingerModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893)

Du Ring an meinem Finger, which is, The Ring on my Finger. A barefoot peasant girl sits on a wheelbarrow stacked high with sheaves of wheat. She is admiring a ring on her second-smallest finger: an en [...]

Keywords: women, romance, engagement, bare feet, farming, harvest, wheat, fields, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-25

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Guild of Carriage-MakersAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

This incredibly busy design is for the guild of carriage-makers (I think) in 1612. The border includes two scantily-clad women, six scantily-clad or naked small children, two gryphons, a bunch of baro [...]

Keywords: heraldry, borders, full-page borders, page images, frames, people, cherubs, nudity, women, boys, shields, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-10-30

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Ornate baroque-stye border with herubs and gryphonsAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882)

This border is from the 1612 sign for the Nurenberg Guild of Carriage-Makers made by Adolf Mießner. The border includes two scantily-clad women, six scantily-clad or naked small children, two gryphons [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, cherubs, bare feet, women, people, nudity, scrollwork, cartici, frames, inhabited borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-10-30

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Aldermaston, BerkshireThe Mansions of England in the Olden Time (1906)

Aldermaston Court, the manor house in Aldermaston Park, was largely destroyed by fire just a few years after Joseph Nash painted this picture. Today (2020) the Victorian replacement manor is for sale. [...]

Keywords: interiors, mansions, stately homes, staircases, ceilings, people, statuart, dogs, chidren, women, boys, sculpture, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, carving, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: Aldermaston; Berkshire; England

Added: 2020-10-15

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Her mirror was the smooth water of the tide poolLegends of the Seven Seas (1929)

A mermaid, a young naked woman, sits on a rock and combs her long hair, her fish’s tail dangling in the water. Gulls circle by her head. A black and white drawing in a surprisingly modern art deco sty [...]

Keywords: peoppe, mermaids, women, nudity, birds, water, sitting, black and white, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-03-06

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Emblem 1. Serpent. Eve.Emblems Divine and Moral (1866)

This woodcut shows a naked woman (the Biblical Eve) near an apple tree; a snake or serpent coils round the trunk of the tree. In the background ar a palm tree, a camel, and, in the far distance, a ma [...]

Keywords: emblems, people, nudity, women, snakes, trees, temptation, biblical scenes, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-16

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The Triumph of LoveArt-Journal (1850)

The Triumph of Love Engraved by W. Roffe, from the group in marble by P Mac Dowell, R.A. Note: the sculptor’s name is written variously as Mac Dowell in two words or as Macdowell, both in this issue [...]

Keywords: statuary, sculpture, people, love, affection, men, women, cupid, cherubs, putti, children, bare feet, boys, women, men, nudity, romance, sandals, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-12-29

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Woman with initial letter “V”Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A decorative Fraktur (German) initial letter “V” in which a naked woman with flowers in herhair is kept modest by a cherub waving some cloth; another cherub clings merrily to a carved object to which [...]

Keywords: initials, letterv, romance, nudity, women, people, cherubs, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-07

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Romantic Woman with Cherubs and CartoucheGoethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A blank cartouche or frame for a sign is placed on this image so you could use it as a decorative initital or drop cap; a woman is surrounded by signs of love. It is a version of this decorative lette [...]

Keywords: romance, nudity, women, people, cherubs, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-08

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Strength and CunningModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893)

Kraft ud List, which is, Strength (the lion) and Cunning (the demoness or harpy). Here we have a lion with a chain around its neck; leaning against it is a dark-eyed winged woman; perhaps she holds th [...]

Keywords: lions, animals, demons, people, wings, women, imaginary creatures, fantasy, death, chains, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-06-23

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Marguerite, Countess of BlessingtonThe Cabinet of Irish Literature (1892)

After a painting by A. E. Chalon, R.A. The Countess of Blessington (1789 – 1849) lived in London in the first half of the nineteenth century, where she became a close friend of Byron and wrote several [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, women, faces, costume, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-03-11

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Choirboy singing from balcony pulpitModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

A beautiful boy chorister, or possibly a young lady by the costume and the long pointy fingers, is singing in a wooden pulpit or balcony high in the top-left corner of a page of sheet music (not shown [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, choirboys, boys, people, women, robes, singing, music, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-12-10

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286.—Costume of a Saxon Woman.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

[...] the ladies wore a long and ample garment with loose sleeves (the gunna, whence our gown), over a closer-fitting one, which had tight sleeves reaching to the wrist; over these a mantle was worn b [...]

Keywords: costumes, people, women, dresses, hoods, gowns, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-07-01

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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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