Items taken from La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878) (results page 1)

Title Page, La France IlustréeLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

The words La France appear in very large writing on this page, the F and E perhaps 5 inches / 12.5cm tall, in bold uneaven script that says 1880s France; beneath that ILUSTRÉE is in sans-serif type, [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, rustic borders, borders, lettering, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-10-31

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Saint Bonaventura as a MonkLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

An engraving of Saint Bonaventura standing in a Franciscan monk’s robe or cowl, hood back to reveal his tonsured head, staring up at birds, children singing, and rays of light suggesting a higher supe [...]

Keywords: saints, people, monks, robes, tonsures, borders, rustic borders, birds, twigs, christianity, religion, crosses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-25

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Vignette: crucifix with skull and prayer book or bibleLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A tall crucifix (a cross bearing a man being tortured to death) stands on a desk or table; it emanates light, dhining on a book propped open behind it, and on a skull. The skull may represent the mira [...]

Keywords: saints, christianity, death, skulls, books, religion, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-24

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Le Tunnel du Saint-Gotthard.—Machine à perforer, mue par l’air compriméLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A man stands facing left, apparently calm, wearing overcoat and wide-brimmed hat, in an underground tunnel; behind him is a large metal cylindrical tank, horizontal, fitted with railway wheels; to th [...]

Keywords: machinery, steampunk, railways, people, wheels, men, engines, tunnels, excavation, digging, hats, greyscale

Places shown: Gotthard Tunnel; Broager; Uri; Switzerland

Added: 2020-10-31

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Monseigneur Dabart, bishop of Périgueux and of Sarlat.La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A portrait of Nicolas-Joseph Dabert, who was bishop of Périgueux in Dordogne in France from 1863 to 1901. He wrote a number of books, of which a history of Saint Tomas of Villeneuve seems to have bee [...]

Keywords: priests, portraits, men, people, bishops, frames, borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-07-10

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Full-page portrait border with nameplate spaceLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

This full-page rectangular border is designed like a picture frame, with flowers surmounting an inset oval frame or cartouche, and with a nameplate appearing to hang by a ribbon beneath the oval. Orig [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, rectangular, oval, full-page borders, cartici, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-07-10

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Harvest TimeLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

Les Vendages, Drawing by Yan’ Dargent. The picture is framed on either side by poles with grapevines gropwing up then, and by an arch overhead with vines. There are also what appear to be pumpkins and [...]

Keywords: harvest, grpes, people, men, women, workers, cornucopia, grapes, vines, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-09-02

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Field WorkerLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

This field worker is busy harvesting; he is a detail from a much larger image i plan to post separately. He wears a straw boater or similar hat, a waistcoat, a long-sleeved shirt, long trousers and i [...]

Keywords: men, people, workers, hats, baskets, harvest, summer, standing, waistcoats, standing, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-09-01

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Portrait of Włodzimierz CzackiLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

Włodzimierz Czacki was a Russian Roman Catholic (Papist) priest who became “titular archbishop” of Salamis in the year this picture was printed. We see Czacki in his forties, with thin metal-rimmed sp [...]

Keywords: portraits, bishops, clergy, clerics, men, people, spectacles, borders, frames, cartici, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-08-30

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Drawn Picture FrameLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

This engraving of a picture fram would be fabulous for a picture of a loved one. Simply place the PNG file as a layer on top of a person’s photograph (in the free GIMP image editor for Windows/mac/lin [...]

Keywords: frames, picture frames, surrounds, cartici, borders, ornate, oval, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-08-30

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Trop tard!La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A young man, barefoot and dressed in rags, is half-kneeling, his head i his hands, at a bench in front of an enclosed bed, on which sleeps, or perhaps is dead, an old man. A priest holding a book loo [...]

Keywords: death, people, bare feet, poverty, priests, men, interiors, beds, furniture, grief, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-10-31

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Monseigneur Roche, Bishop of GapLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

Here we have a portrait of a prelate, a French bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Gap; he lived from 1828 to 1880 and was made a bishop in 1879.

The portrait is in a fabulous engraved oval frame.

Keywords: portraits, frames, men, bishops, prelates, borders, oval, ovals, cartouches, cartici, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-10-31

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Saint Elizabeth of HungaryLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

St.Elizabeth of Hungary (1207 – 1231) is a patron saint of bakers, beggars, brides, charities and of the death of children. She was a princess and at the age of sixteen was taught by Franciscan friar [...]

Keywords: saints, people, women, xmas, christmas, nativity, roses, miracles, christianity, religion, men, forests, borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-10-31

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Rustic full-page border of twigs with roses, divided into several areasLa France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

This full-page border or frame of wooden branches or twigs is divided into six main areas of varying shapes. Although the border is roughly symmetrical there are two roses at the top. This might be fa [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, rustic borders, twigs, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-07-06

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