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136.—To Be Sold By Auction.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A sign saying “to be sold at auction” as if written on a heavy curtain rod, complete with pineapple finials, and with heavy fringed clothe hung over it. This woodcut or engraving might have been used [...]

Keywords: signs, captions, auctions, commerce, greyscale

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Added: 2011-09-25

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137.—To Be Sold.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

The phrase “to be sold” written in ornate yet heavy, “fat” lettering. The original is not rectangular in the fac simile I have, but whether this is a flaw in the facsimile or whether the original bloc [...]

Keywords: signs, captions, auctions, commerce, lettering, greyscale

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Added: 2011-09-25

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138.—Auction and auctioneer.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A bearded man stands at an auctioneer’s bench, holding a gavel, with other people milling about beneath him.

Keywords: auctions, commerce, people, greyscale

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Added: 2012-05-13

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140.—To be sold by Auction.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A man, the auctioneer, smartly dressed with jacket and cravat, sits at an auctioneer’s bench with a gavel held up in one hand. Underneath him the legend, “To be sold by Auction.” This engraving would [...]

Keywords: signs, captions, auctions, people, commerce, clipart, slavery, greyscale

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Added: 2011-09-30

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145.—Leading a HorseNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A man wearing jodhpurs, tall boots and a hat leads an unsaddled horse by grasping the reins in his left hand. He holds a riding crop or whip inhis right hand.

Keywords: people, animals, horses, greyscale

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Added: 2025-06-02

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147.—Horse and trainer.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A man wearing jodhpurs, tall boots and a hat leads an unsaddled horse in a circle; he carries a whip.

Keywords: people, animals, horses, greyscale

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Added: 2011-09-30

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150.—Horce racing.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Two badly-drawn horses are neck-and-neck at the finish line in a horse-race, their jockeys brandishing whips.

Keywords: horses, sport, games, racing, whips, greyscale

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Added: 2012-05-13

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159.—Horse and Carriage.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

At one time people had different names for different sorts of carriage. This one is like a stage coach. It is enclosed, with a door, and windows either side of the door each bearing a star, and also w [...]

Keywords: carts, horses, carriages, transport, people, colour

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Added: 2011-04-09

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160. – Horse and Carriage.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This woodcut is similar to Fig. 159, except that the carriage and horses are moving to the right, the wheels are smaller, and the spokes are drawn to give an effect of rapid motion.

Keywords: carts, horses, carriages, transport, people, greyscale

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Added: 2011-04-09

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162.—Horse and Carriage.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Two (or maybe four?) horses are pulling this coach; the driver weilds a long horse-whip.

Keywords: carriages, horses, transport, people, whips, wheels, greyscale

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Added: 2012-05-13

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166.—Two dogs in ScotlandNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Two dogs in the Scottish highlands, with a crofter’s cottage in the background. The dogs are border collies, I think: sheepdogs.

Keywords: dogs, hills, cottages, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2011-04-09

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267.—Country DanceNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Woodcut showing three people dancing; they wear eighteenth century clothing. At first I thght they were children playing, but now I think it is a formal dance featturing two men and a woman.

Keywords: people, dances, dancing, costumes, hats, greyscale

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Added: 2011-06-14

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168.—Lovers in the bushes.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A gentleman and a woman, the man with a formal jacket with long tails and the woman with a long dress and a broad-brimmed hat or bonnet walk through bushes and trees, arm in arm.

Keywords: people, romance, lovers, costumes, formal, walking, bushes, greyscale

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Added: 2011-06-13

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678.—Swallowtail ButterflyNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This antique engraving of a swallowtail butterfly—the English swallowtail, sometimes called in America the Old World Swallowtail Butterfly, is attributed to Thomas Bewick. Notice how the engraving bec [...]

Keywords: butterflies, insects, clipart, greyscale

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Added: 2016-10-30

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885.—Tightrope artist with table and candles and dwarf.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

On a styilized stage a woman sits on a tightrope with a three-legged table holding two lit candles and other items; she is holding two cups and perhaps will juggle. She wears a feather i her cap and i [...]

Keywords: people, circuses, theatre, performances, balancing, tightropes, chairs, stages, greyscale

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Added: 2014-02-12

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887.—Men Skating At Night.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Five men are skating on a frozen pond at night, leaving trails in the ice. They smile. They are wearing top hats and eighteenth-century dress. One of them carries a cane. In the background, wintry tr [...]

Keywords: people, winter, christmas, sport, costumes, colour

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Added: 2011-12-13

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888.—Octagonal Border with starbursts.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A vintage border that would look well with Christmas or holiday items.

Keywords: borders, christmas, astrology, geometric designs, greyscale

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Added: 2012-01-07

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8800.—Soldiers.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This image was almost certainly made to have text inserted in the central black rectangle. If you do this, you should probably first fill the rectangle with solid black. The picture shows a line of s [...]

Keywords: soldiers, castles, frames, battlements, people, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-17

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890. – Dog.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This wood-engraving of a dog might be attributed to Thomas Bewick; the technique and style make it possible, it seems to me, but it’s far from certain.

Keywords: animals, dogs, greyscale

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Added: 2015-09-18

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891.—Trapeze artist walking a tightrope or high wireNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

A balancing act in this stock block: a man dressed for the circus is performing a balancing act on the high wire.

Keywords: men, people, tights, tightropes, acrobats, circuses, performances, greyscale

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Added: 2025-08-30

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