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Arrest of the Duke of Gloucester The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

On a grassy knoll, with trees, outside a castle, the King’s soldiers arrest the Duke of Gloucester on his horse. You can tell the King on the right by his crown and the royal coat of arms just visibl [...]

Keywords: royalty, nobility, knights, soldiers, horses, trees, boats, spears, crowns, robes, costumes, hills, castles, caparisons, greyscale

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Added: 2018-03-09

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69: Versio Cl. Viri Jo. Checi, Edvardi VI. Præceptoris Eruditissimi. Oratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

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70: Additamentm: Pater Per omnes hasce, aliasq; Linguas. Oratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

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Added: 2000-09-19

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Ladies’ Costume, Time of Edward I The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

In this woodcut a man in 13th century costume holds up a woman’s garment, a tunic perhaps although I am not certain. This is a Victorian engraving based on a thirteenth Century drawing.In the origina [...]

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Added: 2015-08-29

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Anton Rubinstein Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

A most characteristic silhouette by Mrs. Behr made in 1886 in St. Petersburg. The fac-simile autograph is Rubinstein’s name in Russian. (p. 795)The composer-pianist Anton Rubinstein was born in Novem [...]

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Added: 2010-11-14

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71 (continued) Oratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

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Plate XCIX.—Hydrostatics.—Fig. 1. A quadruple pump-mill for raising water. Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

The height of modern technology in 1771: a super-efficient pump powered by a water wheel!The ngine is represented in Plate 99. fig. 1. In which ABCD is a wheel, turned by water according to the order [...]

Keywords: diagrams, machinery, wheels, pulleys, chains, whaterwheels, pumps, hydraulics, greyscale

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Plate XCIX.—Hydrostatics.—Fig. 8. Cup of Tantalus. Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

Tantalus’s cup.Let a hole be made quite through the bottom of the cup A (fig. 11) and the longer leg of the bended syphon BCED be cemented into the hole, so that the end D of the shorter leg DE may al [...]

Keywords: diagrams, cups, water, hydraulics, greyscale

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Plate XCIX.—Hydrostatics.—Fig. 8. Cup of Tantalus (no letters) Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

This is a version of theCup of Tantalusdiagram, without the letters that tie it to the text.

Keywords: cups, goblets, syphons, hydraulics, diagrams, greyscale

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Mary Stuart The Holy Court (1663)

The true Portraiture of Princesse Mary Queene of Scotland and Dowager of France.I left the calligraphic caption in the image, as it seems well done. The author of the book is extremely biased in favou [...]

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Added: 2011-01-30

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828.—Great Seal of Edward I. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

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Red and Blue Medieval Border with Butterfly The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This border was taken from “Hours of the Virgin” (Harl. 2,936). The book is attributed to the Master of Martainville and includes 24 miniatures with foliate borders (such as this one) in colours and g [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, butterflies, insects, flowers, vines, colour

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Added: 2012-07-04

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Gold and Purple Medieval Foliated Border, Vertical The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A side-border or vertical area with vine-leaves and berried, partly in purple and partly in gold. The scanner didn’t pick out the gold very well, so I had to redo it afterwards. This border would make [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, gold, vines, colour

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Added: 2013-10-14

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Blue vine border from 15th century manuscript The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

Anther side-border or edge (edging?) taken from “Hours of the Virgin” (Harl. 2,936). This one has blue vine leaves on a dark brown background.The book is attributed to the Master of Martainville and i [...]

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Added: 2015-08-19

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Full-page gold and coloured medieval border The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

It’s easy to imgine that interest in medieval borders, calligraphy and decoration started with William Morris and Edward Johnston in the 1880s, but this book was produced in 1860 and includes such bea [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, birds, ornament, illuminated manuscripts, frogs, floriated borders, vines, colour

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Added: 2012-06-30

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The Balloon The Real Mother Goose (1919)

Two women stand on a path; one holds a basket under one arm and leads a small child with her other hand. the other faces away from us and has hands on hips. They exchange gossip under a tree.THE BALLO [...]

Keywords: people, women, children, illustrations for children, colour

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Added: 2014-01-22

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Back Cover Farm Weeds (1906)

The weed shown here is Purslane or Pusley, also illustrated in Plate 18.

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Added: 2006-01-14

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Colophon with full-page border The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This colophon identifies the printer of the book; it is set in pseudo-mediæval banderols, or banners, in blue and black, with red, bluee and gold decoration.Day & Son Lithographers to the Queen. Londo [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, colour, red, blue, gold, colophons, ornaments

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Added: 2022-05-27

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Back cover Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

The back cover of this bound collection of Jugend magazine for 1900 shoes a bearded man resting his arms on a large closed book. Perhaps it’s Jugend and he just finished reading it. The red garland at [...]

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Added: 2012-05-23

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Festoon or Garland of Roses Jugend [German art magazine] (1900)

This is a detail from theback coverof the bound collection of magazines for the year 1900. The image is of a string of red roses helpd up into a festoon or banner by tapes or ribbons, making a sort of [...]

Keywords: roses, flowers, ornaments, borders, festoons, colour, red

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Added: 2014-06-21

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