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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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Music book and wreathsFamous Composers and their Music (1901)

Sheet music (score) with wreaths, perhaps of laurel leaves to signify victory; this is a detail from the musical border from the title page.

Keywords: music, sheet music, wreaths, xmas, christmas, page elements, ornaments, colour

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Border of Peace from Front Cover.Fabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The front cover of the book includes a border in gold and black on a red background; there are five florets containing symbols of peace, love and Christianity, as well as a vase of wheat and grasses a [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, religion, peace, decoration, symbols, christianity, christmas, xmas

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Added: 2013-12-07

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Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sizedThe Circling Year (1870)

This leafy border features ivy with some holly thwoen in for good measure: it’d be great at Christmas but could be used at other times too. It surrounds the titlepage of the book. This version is prop [...]

Keywords: borders, xmas, christmas, foliated borders, vinles, leaves, full page, surrounds, frames, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-02-20

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Ecce Ancilla Domini [Behold the blesséd Mary]Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect God’s Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee, Unto God’s will she brought devout respect, Profound simplicity of intellect, And [...]

Keywords: religion, paintings, people, saints, mary, annunciation, biblical scenes, art, christianity, xmas, easter, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-23

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Victorian Carol SingersPeter Parlay’s Annual (1856)

Three Victorian men are stnading singing Christmas songs; one of them plays the harp. A boy watches, and other figures stand in the background. The dress is from the early Victorian era. Jolly be our [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, music, people, singing, wassail, costumes, victorian england, victorian costumes, victoriana, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2013-12-12

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The baron’s Hall at Christmas.The People’s Gallery of Engravings (1844)

We see the inside of a medieval banquet hall, probably (by the size of the windows) from the 16th Century or modified at that time. It is Christmas, and various people are enjoying the hospitality of [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, interiors, people, windows, tables, halls, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2016-12-11

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Christmas MassModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

Choirboys, an orchestra, a conductor who appears to be starting into space, an inuntersested congregation, some of whom are kneeling at at the door. It looks as if perhaps we see a minstrel’s gallery, [...]

Keywords: christmas, choirboys, boys, people, singing, music, religion, xmas, interiors, chapels, churches, musical instruments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-12-10

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Auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt (At Christmasfest)Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

At the Christmas Festival Market. The boy in the engraving sits holding a box, perhaps containing boxes of matches or small cakes; a candle (perhaps) is lighting up a sheet of paper at the front of t [...]

Keywords: chistmas, xmas, boys, people, lighting, faces, selling, vendors, markets, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-12-10

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Ornate Victorian BorderModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

On the edge of Art Nouveau, this coloured border includes a cherub or putto (a naked boy with or without wings) playing the violin. Originally it surrounded a drawing of a young German woman. This wou [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, victorian borders, cherubs, shields, trelliswork, xmas, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-12-10

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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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Cherub playing a grand pianoModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (1898)

Strictly speaking i think he’s a putto, as cherubs have wings and putti are just plump little naked children, usually boys, although putti are sometimes depicted with wings. In this picture a red-hair [...]

Keywords: cherubs, putti, nudity, bare feet, boys, pianos, musical instruments, xmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-12-10

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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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Christmas Still LifeModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

A man wearing a brown suit jacket, red waistcoat, white cravat and top hat has a smile has a carried a platter of Christmas food over one shoulder and a wicker basked containing four bottles of wine. [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, colour, feasts, people, waiters, men, top hats, poems, poetry, thanksgiving

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-10-31

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787.—Bob Apple.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Bob-apple is a game in which an apple is hung by a string from the ceiling or other high piece, or put into a a bowl of water, and people have to eat it or pick it out of the bowl, allw ithout using t [...]

Keywords: people, games, christmas, xmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-10-10

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Chester Cathedral Tower from St. John’s StreetThe River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

A narrow cobbled street with black-and-white half-timbered buildings, an overhanging turret with a percariously-mounted lamp, a heavily-laden cart pulled by two horses, and in the background, with bir [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, streets, cars, buildings, cities, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, xmas, christmas, dickens, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2010-08-12

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934.—Gable Crosses.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Crosses from the gables at the ends of the roof of Salisbury Cathedral. There are three crosses in the picture, so I have marked it as being for Christmas, or for Epiphany or even Easter perhaps, beca [...]

Keywords: crosses, stonework, gothic architecture, carving, christmas, xmas, easter, religion, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2012-12-01

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Oval orange border with ivy leavesGreat Men of Canada, Vol II (1929)

This oval/elliptical border or cartouche surrounded a vignette portrait in the book. The same frams is used for all the pictures.

You can use the Colour tab to change the colour of the border.

Keywords: borders, orange, leaves, ovsal, cartici, wreaths, xmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-05-02

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1054.—Border with Mary, Jesus and JosephNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This frame, or cartouche, forms a decorative border around a rectangle for inserting type, such as a place-setting or perhaps an invitation to a Christening. On the left are Mary and Jesus; on the rig [...]

Keywords: mary, jesus, joseph, borders, frames, cartici, people, religion, christianity, christmas, easter, xmas, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-08-12

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They Crossed the Delaware in SafetyThe American Boy’s Life of Washington (1870)

The picture shows a boat of perhaps sixteen men in a small row-boat; George Washington stands near the stern looking behind anxiously for any sign of the British troops. Near the front, implausibly, s [...]

Keywords: george washington, people, boats, soldiers, snow, xmas, rivers, water, american uprising, traitors, rowing, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-12-02

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