Items matching birds, greyscale (results page 118)

Typographical ornament or printer’s flower The Holy Court (1663)

Ornaments like this were very popular in 17th and 18th century France; they are getting a resurgene in popularity on the Web. This one shows a ring of five circles, with a central ring too; the shado [...]

Keywords: ornaments, greyscale

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Added: 2010-01-27

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Samuel The Holy Court (1663)

Wood-engraved portrait of Samuel taken from thepicture of Daniel and Samuel, in the section entitledThe Statesmen, following on from Moses.SAmuelthat seemed to have been born for nothing but to pray, [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, faces, beards, helmets, biblical characters, jewish history, greyscale

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Added: 2009-12-13

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Four Cherubs With Garlands, Ribbons and Flowers Atalanta Magazine (1888)

These four winged cherubs, tastefully nude, have spring flowers, ribbbons or garlands, and are dancing playfully in the air. They were used as a tail-piece at the end of a chapter. Maybe it’s love on [...]

Keywords: cherubs, romance, bare feet, nudity, flowers, greyscale

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Added: 2011-01-13

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Arrest of the Duke of Gloucester The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

On a grassy knoll, with trees, outside a castle, the King’s soldiers arrest the Duke of Gloucester on his horse. You can tell the King on the right by his crown and the royal coat of arms just visibl [...]

Keywords: royalty, nobility, knights, soldiers, horses, trees, boats, spears, crowns, robes, costumes, hills, castles, caparisons, greyscale

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Added: 2018-03-09

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Ladies’ Costume, Time of Edward I The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

In this woodcut a man in 13th century costume holds up a woman’s garment, a tunic perhaps although I am not certain. This is a Victorian engraving based on a thirteenth Century drawing.In the origina [...]

Keywords: clothing, costumes, people, greyscale

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Added: 2015-08-29

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Plate XCIX.—Hydrostatics.—Fig. 1. A quadruple pump-mill for raising water. Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

The height of modern technology in 1771: a super-efficient pump powered by a water wheel!The ngine is represented in Plate 99. fig. 1. In which ABCD is a wheel, turned by water according to the order [...]

Keywords: diagrams, machinery, wheels, pulleys, chains, whaterwheels, pumps, hydraulics, greyscale

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Added: 2014-03-24

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Plate XCIX.—Hydrostatics.—Fig. 8. Cup of Tantalus. Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

Tantalus’s cup.Let a hole be made quite through the bottom of the cup A (fig. 11) and the longer leg of the bended syphon BCED be cemented into the hole, so that the end D of the shorter leg DE may al [...]

Keywords: diagrams, cups, water, hydraulics, greyscale

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Added: 2018-03-01

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Plate XCIX.—Hydrostatics.—Fig. 8. Cup of Tantalus (no letters) Enclyclopædia Britannica (1771)

This is a version of theCup of Tantalusdiagram, without the letters that tie it to the text.

Keywords: cups, goblets, syphons, hydraulics, diagrams, greyscale

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Added: 2018-03-01

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Mary Stuart The Holy Court (1663)

The true Portraiture of Princesse Mary Queene of Scotland and Dowager of France.I left the calligraphic caption in the image, as it seems well done. The author of the book is extremely biased in favou [...]

Keywords: portraits, royalty, greyscale

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Added: 2011-01-30

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828.—Great Seal of Edward I. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Keywords: royalty, seals, greyscale

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Added: 2005-12-09

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Full-page gold and coloured medieval border The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

It’s easy to imgine that interest in medieval borders, calligraphy and decoration started with William Morris and Edward Johnston in the 1880s, but this book was produced in 1860 and includes such bea [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, birds, ornament, illuminated manuscripts, frogs, floriated borders, vines, colour

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Added: 2012-06-30

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Advert: Delightful Steamer Trips Lynton, Lynmouth, Exmoor, Minehead and the Land of Lorna Doone (1910)

An advertisment from the beginning of the travel guide.DELIGHTFUL STEAMER TRIPSTHROUGH 90 MILES Of THAMES SCENERY. Daily service (Sundays excepted) from May to end of September.SALOON STEAMERS run dai [...]

Keywords: page images, advertisements, boats, transport, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-01-16

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The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built.1 The Barbacan.2 The Ditch or Moat.3 Wall of the outer Ballium.4 Outer Ballium.5 Artificial Mount.6 Wall of the inner Ballium.7 Inner Ballium.8 K [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, towers, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-31

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The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built. (version with no caption) The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

This is a version ofThe Mode in which Antient Castles...but without the caption.Antientis an old way to spell “ancient.”The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built.1 The Barbacan.2 The Dit [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-31

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6.—Tinmouth Castle The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

Tinmouth Castle from the North, with a View of the Haven &c. Northumberland.There was a monastery at Tynemouth as early as the 6th century, and the fortifications were builtby the monks for protection [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, people, cliffs, water, ships, greyscale

Places shown: Tynemouth; Northumberland; England

Added: 2009-11-28

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Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon. The Life Of Anthony à Wood (1772)

Thomas Hearne M.A. of Edmund Hall Oxon.Obit 10 Junii. 1735. Ætat. 57.Vertue SoulThomas Hearne, the famous Oxford Antiquary, or historian, isdepicted in this woodcut or engraving as a portly gentleman [...]

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Added: 2007-05-18

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The Castle of Oxford The Life Of Anthony à Wood (1772)

This small woodcut shows Oxford Castle as it might have been shortly after it was built.“The Castle of Oxford was built in the Year 1071 by Robert Doyley or D’oilli, a faithfull Attendant on King Will [...]

Keywords: castles, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-10-06

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Title page, New Year’s Gift The Life Of Anthony à Wood (1772)

This scan shows the title page from the 1772 edition of John Leland’sNew Year’s Gift, which was printed as a fac-simile (such as technology then allowed) of the original 1549 edition of John Bale.My c [...]

Keywords: page images, typography, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2007-05-18

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Antique Eighteenth-Century Map of Berkshire The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

BERKSHIREDrawn from theBest Authoritiesand Regulated byAstronomical ObservationsBy T. KitchinGeogr.This 1786 (approx.) map includes Reading, Abingdon, Faringdon, Wantage, Wallingford, East Ilsley Lamb [...]

Keywords: maps, greyscale

Places shown: Berkshire; England

Added: 2008-04-26

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Eighteenth-Century Map of Gloucestershire The Antiquities of England and Wales (1786)

The map of Gloucestershire from Boswell’s 1786 Antiquities; it is labeled “Glocestershire”—presumably an antique spelling, but possibly also a mistake.GlocesterDrawn from the bestAuthoritiesand Regula [...]

Keywords: maps, greyscale

Places shown: Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2008-09-02

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