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The members of a family should be known to each other. Good Words (1865)

Two Victorian men in top hats and long-tailed jackets are comforting a distressed-looking boy who wears a cap and a cravat; the three people are dressed fo a funeral and indeed we see graves in the ba [...]

Keywords: people, death, funerals, grief, children, boys, men, hats, victorian costumes, graves, graveyards, greyscale

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Added: 2013-01-27

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The Owl Bible Animals (1877)

“I am a companion to owls.”—Job 30:29.Taking these words in order, we find in the first place that the Jewish Bible accepts the translation of the wordscôsandyanshûph, merely affixing to them the mark [...]

Keywords: tombs, owls, death, spooky, gloomy, despair, birds, ruins, columns, ravens, moon, night scenes, greyscale

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Added: 2012-08-31

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Druids Offering Human Sacrifice Ridpath’s History of the World (1897)

Drawn by A. de Neuville.The picture is fanciful since the only surviving accounts of the druids of ancient times comes from the Romans who were fighting them, and who did not portray them in positive [...]

Keywords: druids, sacrifice, human sacrifice, death, religion, occult, standing stones, megalliths, nighttime, greyscale

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Added: 2017-09-28

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Victor Hugo at his writing desk Victor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (1881)

Victor Hugo in his study – A Sketch from Nature by M. Régamey. The picture shows the poet Victor Hugo standing at his writing desk, which the text implies was in his bedroom. The engraving is also sig [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, interiors, victorian gentlemen, windows, beards, books, greyscale

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Added: 2016-02-26

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37: Sardica, ut in Oppidis loqu., Sardica ut in Pagis (JPEG, includes p.36) Oratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

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Added: 2000-05-16

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Initial letter “G” with a dragon Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

A Victorian decorative initial letter “G” used as a drop cap at the start of a section. The capital G has a dragon with wings, horns, a long scaly tail and clawed feet interwined around it.

Keywords: letterg, initials, mythical creatures, dragons, greyscale

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Added: 2010-02-25

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A Fair Reader Atalanta Magazine (1888)

A Fair Reader—perhaps a somewhat sexist caption by today’s standards! A lady, presumably fair or beautiful, is sitting at a desk holding an open book, reading; other books lie on the desk in front of [...]

Keywords: people, books, reading, pictures of books, bonnets, greyscale

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Added: 2011-01-13

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Tottering Under the Weight of Knowledge Atalanta Magazine (1888)

An unidentified elderly gentleman carries a large stack of heavy books; he holds the top one in place with his nose as he shuffles forward.This sketch accompanied an article on the Reading Room at the [...]

Keywords: books, people, pictures of books, people, greyscale

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Added: 2011-02-04

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Reaching After Knowledge Atalanta Magazine (1888)

A well-dressed lady, complete with bonnet, climbs a step-ladder to reach down a book.The sketch or cartoon is one of a number accompanying an article about the British Library and some of the people w [...]

Keywords: sketches, people, books, humour, greyscale

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Added: 2010-10-20

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Sir Thomas More The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A beautiful engraving showing Sir Thomas More in his prison cell; the gaoler [jailer] approaches, carring a heavy bundle of keys. Sir Thomas More (also Saint Thomas More) was executed by beheading whe [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, prisons, punishments, greyscale

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Added: 2008-06-24

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Sir Thomas More Reflects [detail] The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A detail from thePortrait of Sir Thomas Moresuitable for use as a computer desktop background (“wallpaper”). This one is for screens in the 4:3 aspect ratio; there is also awidescreen (8:5) version.

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

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Sir Thomas More Reflects [detail, widescreen version] The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

A detail from thePortrait of Sir Thomas Moresuitable for use as a computer desktop background (“wallpaper”). This one is for screens in the 8:5 wide-screen aspect ratio; there is also awidescreen (8:5 [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Plate XLII.—Astronomy. Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

The purpose of the four interwoven figures here is to explain how an eclipse of Jupiter’s satellites (or moons) works. I will scan the details on request. These are beautifully-engraved diagrams, wi [...]

Keywords: astronomy, diagrams, sun, labels, eclipses, zodiac, colour

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Added: 2009-10-22

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Plate XLII.—Astronomy: detail: antique star engraving Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

A copper-plate engraving representing a star from a diagram explaining astronomy; you can also seethe full diagram.

Keywords: diagrams, stars, astronomy, astrology, colour

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Plate XLII.—Astronomy: detail: sun and eclipses Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

A diagram with the sun in the middle, complete with a face, and showing the illumination of the earth at varoius times of the year, marked by month and zodiac sign. There is also a version of this dia [...]

Keywords: astronomy, sun, zodiac, diagrams, eclipses, planets, astrology, colour

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Plate XLII.—Astronomy: detail: the face of the sun. Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

This diagram, taken fromplate XLII on eclipses, shows the sun as an eight-pointed star with a face in the middle, including eyes, nose and mouth! (Obviously the sun does not have a beard, since the ha [...]

Keywords: astronomy, sun, diagrams, zodiac, colour

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Added: 2009-10-22

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St. Nicholas (Botticelli. Capitol, Rome) Sacred and Legendary Art (1890)

Saint Nicholas is remembered on the 6th of December.Devotional figures of St. Nicholas exhibit him as standing in the habit of a bishop. In the Greek pictures he is dressed as a Greek bishop, without [...]

Keywords: religion, saints, iconography, christmas, xmas, bishops, people, greyscale

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Added: 2012-12-06

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38: Lusitanica; Biscaina, sive Canabrica Oratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

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Knight, Death and the Devil (1513) Engravings on Metal by Albrecht Duerer

This is one of three engravings in a series calledMeisterstiche. The others areMelancholia IandSaint Jerome in His Study.The engraving is dated 1513, two hundred years after the dissolution of the Kn [...]

Keywords: knights, death, people, spooky, greyscale

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Added: 2005-06-25

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Hark! the sea is crying to me in pain! Atalanta Magazine (1888)

Thus the two lived on, each for the other, in one long summertime, lit by their great love. The nights grew long; day after day the sea fought fiercely with the cruel winds that broke its rest. and t [...]

Keywords: romance, warriors, people, nighttime, storms, water, beards, people, weapons, colour

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Added: 2010-02-14

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