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Front Cover in blue and gold.The Table Book of Art (1880)

The front cover of this luscious illustrated Victorian book has a crest and the names of various artists in gold, all embossed onto blue cloth. The spine is similarly gilt.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2012-11-15

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Title PageThe Table Book of Art (1880)

Usually i scan title pages in black and white (greyscale), but here i wanted to keep the red. You can also see the paper is somewhat buckled, i think as a result of an overly tight binding. The Table [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, typography, colour

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Added: 2025-03-29

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Declaration of IndependenceThe Table Book of Art (1880)

This, it turns out, is a very famous painting in America. There is also a cropped version for use as a laptop of desktop computer background. Trumbell’s The Declaration of Independence On the 4th of J [...]

Keywords: politics, royalty, terrorism, people, interiors, americana, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; USA

Added: 2012-11-15

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Declaration of IndependenceThe Table Book of Art (1880)

This, it turns out, is a very famous painting in America. This version is cropped to make a screen background: there is also a widescreen version which has the full painting as reproduced in the book. [...]

Keywords: art, politics, royalty, terrorism, people, interiors, americana, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; USA

Added: 2012-11-15

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Initial Letter G With DoveThe Table Book of Art (1880)

This decorative initial capital letter “G” features a geometrical circular outer design, a dotted in-fill for the letter itself, a triangle, and a downward-flying white bird, perhaps the dove of peace [...]

Keywords: letterg, initials, birds, symbols, christianity, historiated initials, greyscale

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Added: 2019-01-14

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The Dancing DollsThe Table Book of Art (1880)

Burnett’s The Dancing Dolls Simple and home-like. A little Italian boy, with puppets, has “struck luck,” in finding a grandfather and grandmother entertaining two grandchildren. Delight is universal [...]

Keywords: art, people, children, toys, games, interiors, dolls, dance, greyscale

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Added: 2012-11-15

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Girl cuddling dogThe Table Book of Art (1880)

This Victorian girl is sitting on a stool and cuddling her pet dog, perhaps a spaniel, who sits on her apron, on her lap, as she smiles: a picture of affection and comfort. This is a detail isolated ( [...]

Keywords: children, illustrations for children, animals, dogs, pets, animals, costumes, affection, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-08-06

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The Old Farm Gate.The Table Book of Art (1880)

This steel engraving is signed by William Collins (artist) and Dick (engraver). It’s possible this is Archibald Dick, but he died some fifteen years before this book was produced. William Collins was [...]

Keywords: children, people, bare feet, urchins, poverty, rural scenes, gates, farms, forests, trees, boys, girls, animals, dogs, bucolic scenes, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2018-11-16

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Begging Monk at the Door of a MosqueThe Table Book of Art (1880)

(From the original painting by J. L. Gérôme.) The standing monk gets our attention first, with his wicker alms basket hanging from his right arm, his right hand holding his cane. He wears only a rathe [...]

Keywords: people, monks, spooky, bare feet, loin cloths, beards, mosques, religion, worship, entrances, doorways, shoes, walking sticks, canes, lanterns, islamic scenes, simplicity, exposed, invisibility, enlightened, humility, greyscale

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Added: 2018-11-18

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Rosenthal’s Elaine.The Table Book of Art (1880)

The body of the lady Elaine is in the ferry crossing the river styx; I can’t tell whether she has coins on her eyes or whether the ferryman as taken them. There’s a garland of flowers alongside the fe [...]

Keywords: death, spooky, mythology, boats, ferries, people, water, rivers, elaine, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-12-10

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Eve of St. John’s DayThe Table Book of Art (1880)

(From the original painting by Jules Breton.) A ring of seven barefoot women dance with arms linked around a fire in an open field; there is another group dancing in the background and, beyond that, t [...]

Keywords: people, spirit, dancing, moonlight, barefoot, bare feet, festivals, women, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-03-04

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Paul and Virginia in the ForestThe Table Book of Art (1880)

«Paul Virginie dans la forêt» – Huile datant du milieu du XIXe siècle, d’après Frédéric Henri Schopin, et dont l’auteur est inconnu This engraving by A. L. Dick is of a painting by Frédéric Henri Scho [...]

Keywords: people, art, bare feet, men, women, romance, love, forests, trees, bodices, costumes, greyscale

Places shown: Mauritania

Added: 2018-12-31

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Arched textured border from Paul and Virginia in the ForestThe Table Book of Art (1880)

This arched border was used to surround an engraving of a painting of Paul and Virginia. The engraving uses horizontal lines to achieve a textured effect, and would reproduce well.

Keywords: full-page borders, borders, colour, arches

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Added: 2018-12-31

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