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149x200, 666x893, 888x1191 | Front Cover, World’s Best MusicWorld’s Best Music (1900) A marbled cover with quarter-leather binding. There are some moiré effects in some sizes because of the interaction between the textured boards of the book and the digital images. Keywords: book covers, colour Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-24 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | Crusaders attacking a castleWorld’s Best Music (1900) Crusaders (Mediaeval [US. Medieval] soldiers) attack a castle. One of them has just been struck by an arrow. The man behind him wears a crown, and his hauberk bears the three lions of England. To the [...] Keywords: castles, people, battles, weapons, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour Places shown: none Added: 2018-07-25 + S K L |
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1020x1400, 1361x1868, 146x200, 574x788, 765x1050 | When Stars Are In The Quiet SkiesWorld’s Best Music (1900) Sheet music for piano, a setting of Edward Bulwer (Lord Lytton)’s poem: 1 When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies Then most I pine for thee;; Bend on me then thy tender eyes, As stars look on the se [...] Keywords: music, sheet music, page images, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-24 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1076x1423, 151x200, 646x854, 861x1139 | Edward Bulwer, (Lord Lytton.)World’s Best Music (1900) “Edwars, Bulwer, Lord Lytton, who wrote these dainty lines, was an historian and a poet, although preeminent as a novelist; being author of about twenty romances. He wrote a few plays, among which is [...] Keywords: people, portraits, beards, sketches, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-24 + S K L |
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| 1272x1200, 212x200, 814x768 | The Maid of the MillWorld’s Best Music (1900) An idyllic village scene with a church tower (complete with church clock) in the background and a water-mill with its water-wheel in the foregroud. In the centre is what looks like a canal lock, but [...] Keywords: villages, water, mills, churches, towers, creeper, christmas, colour Places shown: unspecified Added: 2004-03-04 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | The Picket’s Off Duty ForeverWorld’s Best Music (1900) A soldier lies dead under a full moon at the edge of a forest, with the river Potomac in the background, presumably the Potomac River in America. It appears to be a scene from the American Civil War, [...] Keywords: american civil war, war, soldiers, death, spooky, full moon, moons, forests, trees, rivers, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: America Added: 2012-09-02 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1032x1444, 1376x1924, 143x200, 580x811, 775x1084 | The Rainy DayWorld’s Best Music (1900) The poem as printed in the book reads: The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fal [...] Keywords: sheet music, music, page images, poems, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-27 + S K L |
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1080x1437, 1441x1916, 150x200, 607x807, 810x1077 | The Rainy DayWorld’s Best Music (1900) The second page of the sheet music (piano score) for the song by Wordsworth, “The Rainy Day.” It’s a very “goth” song, all about how everyone must endure misery. Keywords: sheet music, music, page images, poems, songs, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-27 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1135x1271, 178x200, 851x953 | Mark LemonWorld’s Best Music (1900) Mark Lemon was the founder and editor of Punch, a long-running English magazine. He also wrote the song, “Oh Would I Were a Boy Again” which is printed in the book. Youth’s best gifts, hope and entusi [...] Keywords: people, portraits, beards, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-09-02 + S K L |
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1296x1606, 161x200, 169x210, 227x281, 303x375, 729x903, 95x118, 972x1205 | Music: detail: cherub with violinWorld’s Best Music (1900) In this detail taken from Music, a naked boy, a cherub or putti, sits on a rose briar (or a hydrangea maybe, which would be less painful); he is entirely naked, and has feathered wings. He plays the v [...] Keywords: nudity, music, musical instruments, romance, cherubs, bare feet, christmas, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-08-17 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1031x1339, 1374x1785, 154x200, 579x752, 773x1004 | MusicWorld’s Best Music (1900) A lady plays a 16-stringed sitar or guitar, or more likely a chitarrone; she is sitting by a rosebush wearing a white dress, and plays from music. Behind her a cherub plays the violin; he is naked and [...] Keywords: love, romance, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, music, musical instruments, people, christmas, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-08-17 + S K L |
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