Items taken from Hone’s Everyday Book (1826) (results page 2)

St. John in the Isle of Patmos.Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Saint John the Evangelist is shown writing onto sheets of paper with a large eagle behind him; a staff and pouch are at his side, and he wears animal skins and sandals. He hasa long white beard. May [...]

Keywords: people, saints, religion, beards, writing, greyscale

Places shown: Patmos; Greece

Added: 2009-12-12

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Francis Grose, Esq. F.S.A. etc.Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Francis Grose was a well-known historian and lexicographer. There are some scanned images from his Antiquities and also his 1811 dictionary of slang and a short biogrify of Fancis Grose.

Keywords: portraits, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-05-04

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JuneHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 738)

A man bearded man strewn with garlands and leaves rides a crab. He faces backwards. he carries spear and shield, and on his lap a shovel. He wears sandals and a long robe.

Keywords: summer, people, beards, calendars, months, june, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-01-06

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SummerHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 817)A barefoot, bare-legged and barechested man, clad only in a flowing scarf draped over his left arm and around his loins, holds a bundle of wheat in his outstretched left hand and a sickle in [...]

Keywords: people, bare feet, nudity, sickles, summer, harvest, calendars, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2002-09-30

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JulyHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A naked and barefoot bearded man rides a lion, holding reins. He carries a two-handed scythe strapped to his back, with a sickle at his side, and laughs, with his right arm arm raised. The lion appe [...]

Keywords: people, animals, lions, nudity, bare feet, scythes, summer, calendars, months, july, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-28

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August and VirgoHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“AUGUST The eighth was August, being rich array’d In garment all of gold downe to the ground: Yet rode he not, but led a lovely mayd Forth by the lily hand, the which was crown’d With eares of corne [ [...]

Keywords: people, weapons, swords, summer, calendars, months, august, virgo, zodiac, astrology, september, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-02

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CatsHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A group of cats gathers round an open music book to sing christmas carols. A trombone, violin, banjo and other instruments are visible, along with playing cards. Some mice play nearby. From p. 1100: [...]

Keywords: animals, cats, music, christmas, mice, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-05-01

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1134.—Ancient Printing-officeHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“An exact old writer says of printers at this season of the year [August 25th], that “It is customary for all journeymen to make every year, new paper windows about Bartholomew-tide, at which time the [...]

Keywords: printing, people, typography, beer, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-09

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SeptemberHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1146)A man carries a bushel of wheat over his shoulder, and in his hands a scythe and a scale. A poem follows:September.Next him September marched eke on foot;    Yet was he heavy laden with th [...]

Keywords: people, harvest, calendars, months, september, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-11-06

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Hare and TaborHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Every image collection needs a picture of a hare or rabbit beating a drum, so here it is! “Ben Jonson’s mention of the hare that beat the tabor at Bartholomew Fair in his time, is noticed by the indef [...]

Keywords: music, animals, hares, rabbits, musical instruments, drawings, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-10-21

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Nativity of the Blessed Virgin MaryHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

September 8 is the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin; that is, the supposed birthday of the mother of Jesus. She is shown wearing a crown, with a starburst of light emenating from her head, and floating [...]

Keywords: mythologial figures, people, crowns, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-14

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AutumnHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1282)A bearded man of middle years, barefoot and wearing only a loin-cloth, carries on his head a basket overflowing with apples and other fruit. Under his right arm he carries vines with bunch [...]

Keywords: people, harvest, calendars, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-12-14

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OctoberHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A barefoot, bare-legged and bare-chested man sits astride a giant scorpion. He holds aloft a branch from a grapevine.

(page 1346)

Keywords: zodiac, people, insects, scorpions, scorpio, bare feet, beards, calendars, months, october, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-11-06

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NovemberHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A portly man sits astride a bearded centaur. The centaur is wearing a helmet and carrying a spear. The mean wears a monk’s tunic and is mopping his tonsured brow. A poem underneath the image: NOVEMBER [...]

Keywords: people, centaurs, spears, monks, calendars, months, november, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-11-06

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5th November: Guy FawkesHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Boys carry a stuffed dummy, a straw-stuffed effigy of Guy Fawkes, through a town; the figure is arranged on a chair supported by two poles, a litter. In the background people watch, or raise their hat [...]

Keywords: people, children, street scenes, religion, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2007-08-31

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St. CeciliaHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A crowned woman with long hair, robes and sandals wears a pendant and sits clutching her chest. A carved music seat in the shape of an eagle holds a score (sheet music). A winged angel plays a portab [...]

Keywords: angels, people, music, wings, bare feet, cherubs, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-05-22

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DecemberHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 1543)An old tonsured man wearing a monk’s robe and a gown is supping lustily from a giant bowl of liquid. He rides a goat, representing the lasciviousness of the pagan festivals at December, as [...]

Keywords: people, bowls, winter, animals, goats, monks, calendars, months, december, christmas, religion, wassail, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-11-06

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WinterHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

“WINTER. Hoary, and dim, and bare, and shivering Like a poor almsman comes the aged Year, With kind “God save you all, good gentlefolks!” Heap on fresh fuel, make a blazing fire, Bring out the cup of [...]

Keywords: people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-23

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Ancient Representation of the NativityHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A picture for Christmas, taken from the entry for December 24th. “This introduction of the ox and the ass warming the infant in the crib with their breath, is a fanciful construction by catholic write [...]

Keywords: christmas, religion, astrology, animals, peoplechristmas, greyscale

Places shown: Bethlehem; Judea; Palestine

Added: 2005-10-24

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