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Love Birds KissingIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

Two birds (doves?) touch their beaks together over a rose in this romantic engraving.

Keywords: romance, love, birds, kissing, roses, doves, flowers, greyscale

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Added: 2014-09-21

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Full-page border with bird, flowers, ivyIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This engraved border surrounded the table of contents in the original book. The text ended one blank line above the ornament at lower middle, although if you needed a little extra space you could dele [...]

Keywords: borders, gardens, flowers, birds, plants, ivy, creepers, spring, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2023-01-12

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Chapter-head with cherubs, flowers, vines and birdsIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This chapter-head was above the start of the first chapter in the book. There’s flowers (marigolds?) both open and closed, leaves, and two naked children (putti or cherubs) each holding a string of fl [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, borders, cherubs, putti, flowers, roses, marigolds, foliated borders, floriated borders, inhabited borders, vines, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2019-01-21

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Vignetted Letter W With Bird in forestIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A rustic initial letter W with a built-in illustration showing a bird sitting on a twig and singing, with winter trees in the background: the bird is perhaps heralding the Spring.

Keywords: letterw, initials, spring, birds, trees, vignetted initials, greyscale

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Added: 2014-10-03

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Young RomanceIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A boy has his arm around the waist of a girl in the countryside, the sun close to the horizon. The picture is in a diamond-shaped frame with twigs in the background, budding to show Spring. This cameo [...]

Keywords: romance, people, children, boys, girls, hats, countryside, greyscale

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Added: 2016-08-18

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Full-page border with roses, black and whiteIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This full-page border or page surround or frame, has roses in bloom along with insects. It was engraved with black and white lines so can reproduce very well. The engraving is signed (I think; it is a [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, roses, flowers, surrounds, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2024-08-04

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Corner of full-page border (2 of 2)Im Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A second corner piece from the middle [US: center] of a full-page border.

It is almost identical to the (first corner).

You can also get the half-way-up-ornament.

Keywords: borders, ornaments, corners, greyscale

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Added: 2013-03-05

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Full-page border with hearts and moonsIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This full-page Victorian vintage border features simple lines and geometric patterns giving a sophisticated and ornamental effect. In the corners are hearts drawn with crescent moons on them. I also m [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, cartici, rococo, greyscale

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Added: 2013-03-05

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Centrepiece from full-page line-art borderIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

Centre-piece from the middle [US: center] of a full-page border. This ornament was half-way down the border (it would have looked better slightly above the centre, in fact). I also made two of the cor [...]

Keywords: borders, ornaments, greyscale

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Added: 2013-03-05

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Corner of full-page border (1 of 2)Im Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

Corner piece from the middle [US: center] of a full-page border.

I also made another of the corner pieces (here) available, along with the half-way-up-ornament.

Keywords: borders, ornaments, greyscale

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Added: 2013-03-05

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Full page border of wild flowersIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

The wild flowers on this vintage full-page border are growing so verdantly and enthusiastically that they don’t leave much room for the text! You can also see the full page image comlete with the poem [...]

Keywords: borders, flowers, victoriana, greyscale

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Added: 2013-06-08

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Page image, full-page border with wild flowersIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This page is surrounded with a border consisting of a straight lines overgrown with wild flowers fom the bottom of he page and working up more than halfway. The poem is by Georg Scherer and the border [...]

Keywords: page images, flowers, poems, greyscale

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Added: 2013-06-08

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Ornate initial K from GermanyIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This letter “K” was used as a drop capital (drop cap, decorative initial) in a book printed in Germany in the 1880s; it could be much older, of course. The drop cap has swirly flourishes. You can also [...]

Keywords: letterk, initials, floriated initials, greyscale

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Added: 2013-04-07

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Thistle OrnamentIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

An ornament, or printers’ flower, in the shape of a thistle, from page 81; see the description for that image for other items from the same page, including the wild flowers border. This thistle is als [...]

Keywords: ornaments, wild flowers, thistles, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2013-06-09

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The thoughts of my spirit seek youIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A man sits on a rustic fence at the edge of a lake, fishing. His boat is tethered next to him. In the distance the sun sinks beneath a horizon with mountains and a forest. It’s a black-and-white suns [...]

Keywords: romance, water, people, men, boats, fishing, lakes, mountains, sunsets, bucolic, peaceful, yearning, greyscale

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Added: 2024-08-02

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The Beach TreeIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A man and a woman, clearly a couple, stand at the stump of a tree on a waist-high bank; the man is carving their initials into it, i think. They seem rather formally dressed by modern standards, she w [...]

Keywords: romance, men, women, people, trees, forests, hats, love, greyscale

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Added: 2020-12-31

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Forest of RomanceIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

In the foreground a smartly-dressed young man is entreating a beautiful woman who wears an elaborate dress and bonnet. The couple is seated on a carved stone bench in a thick forest of mature trees; i [...]

Keywords: romance, people, forests, cherubs, trees, statuary, benches, costumes, men, women, greyscale

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Added: 2014-01-24

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The ProposalIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

The man kneels holding out a small box containing a ring; he gazes, full of hope, at the beautiful woman. This image is a detail from the Forest of Romance picture, suitable for a Valentine’s Day card [...]

Keywords: romance, people, colour, costumes

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Added: 2014-02-11

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Cherub with grin and cloven hoofsIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This putto (sungular of putti!) or cherub, symbolising romance, was in the background in Forest of Romance, a scene with a man proposing marriage to a woman. The cherub is depicted as a small boy with [...]

Keywords: romance, cherubs, putti, boys, children, nudity, greyscale

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Added: 2025-01-20

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Cupid and rose briarIm Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

A putto, or small naked boy, here carries Cupid’s bow, the sign of love and romance. He hides beneath a rose briar with thorns, leave, and a beautiful engraving of a rose. Perfect for a Valentine’s ca [...]

Keywords: cupid, romance, flowers, roses, nudity, putti, greyscale

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Added: 2014-01-13

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