Items taken from Old English Country Cottages (1906) (results page 2)

Wrought Iron FiredogOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A fire dog used to hold logs, or more likely one of a pair used to support a grid for holding toast or other food over the fire.

See the coffee mill for more text.

Keywords: sketches, diagrams, kitchen implements, objects, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-11-04

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Wooden Coffee MillOld English Country Cottages (1906)

Detail from Fig. 42, The metalwork in these counties is of exceptionally fine character, and most of it is simply the shaping of the material into forms suitable for the purpose they have to fulfil; [...]

Keywords: sketches, kitchen implements, objects, clip art, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-11-04

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ivy-covered crubling stone sundialOld English Country Cottages (1906)

This little woodcut of a pillar with a sundial (you can see the gnomon) covered with ivy and leaning to one side was used as a tail-piece at the end of a chapter. Tempus Fugit.

Keywords: ornaments, sundials, pillars, time, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-02-22

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Letter T from page 47Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A decorative initial used as a drop cap (drop capital) at the start of a chapter. The letter features an open casement window with two birds sitting on the top and another flying downwards. The birds [...]

Keywords: windows, birds, initials, lettert, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-01

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Endpiece: well-pump with horse-troughOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A woodcut showing a stone trough for drinking-water for animals such as horses, sheep, cattle. The iron pump is fastened to an upright wooden post. This picture was used as a decorative tailpiece to m [...]

Keywords: pumps, water-troughs, troughs, handles, machinery, tailpieces, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-06-16

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Nether Alderly, CheshireOld English Country Cottages (1906)

“To the great majority of the public, the study of architecture is generally of little interest, but these cottages of black-and-white, more especially those of Cheshire, have always found a place in [...]

Keywords: cottages, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Nether Alderley; Cheshire; England

Added: 2006-03-23

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Letter N from page 63Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A decorative initial used as a drop cap (drop capital) at the start of a chapter. The letter features a candlestick with smoke.

Keywords: candles, initials, lettern, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-20

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Endpiece: Tree in a tubOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A mature tree is growing in a wooden planter held in shape with an iron ring. There’s an apple drawn on either side to tell us, if the shape of the tree did not, that it is an apple tree. This woodcut [...]

Keywords: trees, apples, apple trees, tailpieces, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-03-02

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Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire.Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour by Wilfrid Ball, R.E. An English country cottage in Spring or perhaps late Summer. There’s something particularly charming about thatched english cottages. The village of Long Witt [...]

Keywords: cottages, houses, colour

Places shown: Long Wittenham; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2008-02-19

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Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (Wide-screen background version)Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A version of Wilfrid Ball’s painting of a thatched house in the English village of Long Wittenham made to fit a wide-screen or high-definition screen, for use as a wallpaper or desktop background imag [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, cottages, colour

Places shown: Long Wittenham; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2008-02-19

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Decorative element: overgrown well bucketOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A woodcut of a well bucket with rope and overgrown winch, used at the end of a chapter. You could also see a letter “A” in it, so I have also marked it as a decorative initial A. I coloured it for yo [...]

Keywords: ornaments, initials, lettera, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-18

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Well Bucket Ornament, ColouredOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A coloured version of the well-bucket typographic ornament that I made as an example.

Keywords: colour, ornaments, decorations

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-18

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Suckley, Worcestershire.Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by E. A. Chadwick.

A brick cottage, with a half-timbered part. A girl kneels and another person, probably a child, seems to be talking with her. Lots of trees.

Keywords: cottages, houses, people, children, trees, colour, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Suckley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-10-07

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Pershore, WorcestershireOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a [painting] by Wilmot Pilsbury. A bucolic pastoral scene of half-timbered english country cottages, complete with a hay-rick and a cattle barn, and a string of washing.

Pershore travel site

Keywords: colour, cottages, houses, buildings

Places shown: Pershore; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-11-01

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Lustleigh, Devonshire.Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From an oil-painting by Grosvenor. “Of these cottages it can truly be said that they are growths of the soil, trimmed and clipped somewhat by man, but never enough that they can be described as “works [...]

Keywords: cottages, trees, people, houses, thatched cottages, windows, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Lustleigh; Teignbride; Devon; England

Added: 2005-09-29

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