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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1550x875, 354x200, 775x438 | The CasualsMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) The oil painting on which this engraving was based was exhibted under the title, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward, at the Royal Academy in 1874; it was made to illustrate a scene from Dickens [...] Keywords: poverty, poor, victorian costumes, bare feet, men, women, people, children, street scenes, greyscale Places shown: LondonLondon; England Added: 2021-03-15 + S K L R N |
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1220x875, 2440x1750, 279x200, 750x538 | Clovelly, From the Hobby WalkMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) The viewer is looking down a steeply-descending path through a seaside village towards the sea. There are slate rooves and some laundry over a fence. I tried to follow Hobby Drive down the hill using [...] Keywords: views, villages, water, hills, water, roofs, rooftops, boats, chimneys, roads, greyscale Places shown: Clovelly; Devon; England Added: 2021-07-09 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 156x200, 1830x2348, 585x750, 915x1174 | An Egyptian Priest and ScribeMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) Scribes in ancient egypt seem to have been valued and inportant; a scribe was a high-ranking job, unlike in the Levant in the first century, when they were often slaves. The picture shows the bare-hea [...] Keywords: art, paintings, priests, stairs, scribes, ancient egypt, religion, rituals, greyscale Places shown: Egypt Added: 2025-02-02 + S K L |
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| 140x200, 524x751, 699x1002, 932x1336 | The GleanersMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) (By Fred Morgan) “Mr. Fred. Morgan is as sunny as usual in his “Gleaners” (p. 119) Gleaning means going into fields after the harvest and finding left-overs missed by the harvesters. When I was a chil [...] Keywords: people, poverty, fields, greyscale Places shown: England Added: 2010-04-20 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1219x1678, 145x200, 514x708, 686x944, 914x1258 | The Condition of the TurkeyMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) Perhaps Thanksgiving or Christmas is approaching, because the farm-boy is looking at the turkeys with interest and anticipation. “From the Picture by P. R. Morris, A.R.A., exhibited at the Dudley Gal [...] Keywords: turkeys, people, youth, farms, christmas, thanksgiving, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2009-10-29 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Grotesque HeadMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) By M. Legrain. From the Cascade Basin. [at the Paris Exhibition of 1878] A good gargoyle picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween! “These masks, modelled by M. Legrain, were among the most amusing ex [...] Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, horror, mythical creatures, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France Added: 2005-10-27 + S K L R N |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Grotesque Head [detail]Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878) A good picture for All-Souls Night or Halloween! A detail from Grotesque Head Keywords: heads, statues, fountains, gargoyles, spooky, horror, mythical creatures, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France Added: 2005-10-27 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1090x1093, 200x200, 600x602, 818x820 | Decorative initial E with angel, woman and cherubMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) This decorative initial featuers a miniature picture of a naked angel (we see his bottom!) listening patiently to a naked women on his left, with a little winged cherub boy on the right. There are als [...] Keywords: initials, lettere, cherubs, angels, romance, nudity, wings, bare feet, people, romance, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2011-01-15 + S K L |
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152x200, 495x652, 660x869, 880x1159 | Mirror-Frame (A Wood Carving by Panciera Besarel, of Venice)Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878) [A] mirror-frame by a Venetian wood-carver named Panciera Besarel, whose work exhibits more character and plasticity than perhaps any other Italian that could be named. (p. 265) The wreath of cherubs [...] Keywords: cherubs, romance, mirrors, sculture, carving, bare feet, nudity, wings, mythical creatures, borders, frames, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2011-01-16 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 126x200, 384x610, 512x814, 683x1086, 910x1447 | Initial letter “I” with fairy cupid and butterfliesMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) This decorative initial letter “I” was used as a drop cap in the book. It features a naked cupid or winged cherub surrounded by butterflies; his wings are delicate, and his bare feet tread on soft gr [...] Keywords: romance, initials, letteri, cherubs, wings, butterflies, nudity, bare feet, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2011-01-24 + S K L |
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126x200, 189x300, 405x644, 540x858, 720x1144 | Letter I with fairy, colouredMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) I took this decorative capital “I” and coloured it. You could easily change the colours of course, in an image editing program. Keywords: romance, initials, letteri, cherubs, wings, butterflies, nudity, bare feet, colour Places shown: none Added: 2011-01-24 + S K L |
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158x200, 541x685, 721x913, 961x1217 | St. George and the DragonMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) An engraving showing a statue of St. George slaying the dragon, by J. E. Boehm, A.R.A. St. George is here depicted as an almost-naked man riding a horse, a Roman centurian wearing only sandals and a h [...] Keywords: statues, dragons, people, weapons, animals, horses, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2005-10-28 + S K L |
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1195x1078, 222x200, 672x606, 896x808 | For Ever. By Herbert Schmalz.Magazine of Art Illustrated (1878) To the genre of sentiment, not history, belong Mr. Herbert Schmalz’s “For Ever” (page 352) and Mr. Arthur Stocks’ “Her Sweetest Flower” (page 349); the one is romantic, the other realistic, but both [...] Keywords: people, art, sketches, windows, romance, music, musical instruments, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2011-05-04 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 100x100, 1135x1126, 1513x1501, 200x200, 281x281, 375x375, 638x633, 64x64, 851x844 | Initial Capital Letter “D” with BacchusMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878) Decorative initial letter capital “D” featuring vine-leaves, and a modestly-clad almost-naked seated Bacchus figure with a large wine-cup. A bare-footed woman or boy outside the letter holds a jug or [...] Keywords: initials, letterd, people, bare feet, nudity, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2011-05-03 + S K L |
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![Grotesque Head [detail]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/pages/257-Grotesque-Head-portion/257-Grotesque-Head-portion-q75-267x200.jpg "Grotesque Head [detail] 1878")
![St. George and the Dragon [detail]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/pages/337-St.-George-and-the-Dragon-detail/337-St.-George-and-the-Dragon-detail-q75-267x200.jpg "St. George and the Dragon [detail] 1878")
