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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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The First LessonGodey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Vol LXXXI January to June) (1870)

A duotone in black and turquiose. A lady with a cap tilted forward to her eyebrows, a fur-edged top, a long dreass, skating boots, is on the ice outdoors with a man in a bowler had with a checked wais [...]

Keywords: skating, people, men, women, victorian costumes, winter, outdoors, romance, xmas, christmas, colour

Places shown: New Haven; MA; USA

Added: 2025-11-11

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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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At LaundryMusée Artistique et Littéraire, Le (1881)

Au Lavoir Gravure de Smeeton et Tilly, d’après le tableau de Fernand Pelez. At laundry. Engraving by Smeeton and Tilly, after the tableau by Fernand Pelez. Two women are working on laundry. One (on ou [...]

Keywords: laundry, washing, drudgery, household tasks, people, women, buckets, clogs, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-11-16

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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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