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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 149x200, 561x752, 749x1004, 998x1338 | Frontispiece: Cathedral o MessinaSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) This engraving was published in 1877; since then, the cathedral was damaged in an earthquake in 1919 and mostly rebuilt, only to be bombed in the Second World War and again partly rebuilt. In spite of [...] Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, churches, architecture, gothic architecture, greyscale Places shown: Messina; Sicily; Italy Added: 2012-05-29 + S K L R N |
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| 1246x269, 158x34, 1662x358, 210x45, 2216x477, 2770x597, 280x60, 375x81, 700x151, 926x200, 934x201 | Decorative chapter head with winged creaturesSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) A decorative woodcut used at the start of the chapter on Milan; there are dragons, or possibly gryphons but with tails like serpents, and in the centre a face with hair done in pigtails; the whole is [...] Keywords: chapterheads, mythical creatures, dragons, borders, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2007-08-06 + S K L |
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116x375, 201x644, 298x964, 596x1928, 62x200, 78x250 | Decorative initial letter “M” – Roman military standardSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) This decorative initial letter “M” was used sa a drop cap at the start of the chapter; it is in the shape of a Roman standard that might have been carried by a legion of soldiers, and contains various [...] Keywords: letterm, initials, people, symbols, birds, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2009-11-28 + S K L |
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212x716, 284x959, 379x1279, 59x200 | Decorative Initial letter FSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) A decorative initial capial letter “F” used as a drop cap atthe start of a chapter. It features a Greek urn, a Minotoar or Bull mask, vine leaves, and, at the top, a naked woman riding a creature that [...] Keywords: letterf, initials, mythological creatures, nudity, people, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-05-29 + S K L |
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140x200, 491x700, 664x946, 885x1261 | The Columbarium.South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) It is a funeral procession: the mourners walk in line down the steps and into the columbarium where the ashes of the dead will be placed. The chamber is lit by torches carried by mourners and also by [...] Keywords: death, burial, interiors, gloomy, roman remains, spooky, people, music, greyscale Places shown: Rome; Italy Added: 2012-05-29 + S K L R N |
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1065x1167, 142x156, 182x200, 189x207, 252x276, 336x368, 599x656, 78x85, 798x874 | Initial Letter SSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) A decorative capital “S” used as a drop cap, or initial letter S, from the start of Chapter VI, showing a monk kneeling at prayer, with tonsure, robe and sandals. The desk at which he kneels is shaped [...] Keywords: letters, initials, people, religion, spirit, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-03-17 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1105x1102, 196x195, 200x200, 262x261, 349x348, 621x619, 829x826 | Writing DeskSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) A small illustration to enliven the space at the end of Chapter VI. A bearded man sits writing at a mediæval writing desk; there are scrolls in the foreground, and a gargoyle’d trifoliate carving on [...] Keywords: scholars, people, beards, christmas, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-03-17 + S K L |
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1035x1538, 134x200, 582x865, 776x1154 | The Catacombs of NaplesSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) The Catacombs of Naples are of great interest even after those of Rome; they are said to extend for several miles underground; and they consist of broad arched passages hollowed out of the rock, conta [...] Keywords: catacombs, death, interiors, tombs, roman remains, spooky, greyscale Places shown: Naples; Italy Added: 2006-03-17 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1309x314, 2618x627, 750x180, 835x200 | Chapterhead with Mer-HorsesSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) The Hippocampus has the upper body and head of a horse combined with the tail of a fish. They come from Phœnecian mythology and were known in the ancient world by peopls as far apart as the Romans, th [...] Keywords: merhorses, hippocampi, mythological creatures, mythical creatures, chapterheads, animals, horses, criblé, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2021-05-01 + S K L |
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1091x700, 312x200, 4365x2800, 750x481 | Entrance to the harbour of Messina.South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) The harbour of Messina, today a large and modern city, was in the 1870s protected by a fort (still present). Today there is a large stone column with a statue on top of it very prominently placed on t [...] Keywords: harbours, water, boats, ships, forts, people, hills, greyscale Places shown: MessinaMessina; Sicily; Italy Added: 2015-10-14 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 391x906, 781x1812, 86x200 | Ornate initial letter “W” with silhouettes of naked womenSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) This ornate capital letter W has a long vertical tail or stem of trellis-work beneath the letter, which is an “inhabited initial” with two women inside it. One of the women, who are drawn as dark shad [...] Keywords: letterw, initials, inhabited initials, women, nudity, religion, sacrifice, rituals, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2015-10-12 + S K L |
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1071x759, 1428x1012, 1904x1349, 282x200, 714x506, 803x569 | The Catacombs at PalermoSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877) At the end of a long dark corridor, lined with coffins, chests, skulls, and the standing dead, we see an archway, and, through the arch, an old man, a monk, standing in a pool of light. This is a very [...] Keywords: catacombs, death, interiors, tombs, corridors, people, spooky, greyscale Places shown: Palermo; Sicily; Italy Added: 2009-10-24 + S K L R N |
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