Items matching boats, greyscale (results page 118)

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

Places shown: none

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

Places shown: none

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

Places shown: none

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-30

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

Keywords: royalty, seals, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-12-09

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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 [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, greyscale

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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

Places shown: unspecified

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

The map of Oxfordshire from Boswell’s 1786 Antiquities.

Keywords: maps, greyscale

Places shown: Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-07-26

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Oval shamrock border Sheet Music and Covers (1910)

This border is of clover, or Irish shamrock, as befitted the cover of an Irish song.

You can also see theoriginal cover pageand there is agreen versiontoo.

Keywords: borders, leaves, foliated borders, oval, clover, full-page borders, greyscale

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Added: 2021-01-05

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Man Know Theyself Sheet Music and Covers (1910)

The front cover of a Victorian song by Henry Vousden (born 1821). I probably have the 1893 edition, but there was an earlier one from 1860.The border is available asa separate imageand there is also a [...]

Keywords: title pages, sheet music, borders, page images, lettering, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-01-05

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Art Nouveau Ornament 1 Sheet Music and Covers (1910)

A typographic ornament from thecover pageof “Country Life” by Ernest Newton. It was originally printed in the same blue as thedecorative page border, which is in the Art Nouveau style.

Keywords: ornaments, art nouveau, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-20

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Art Nouveau Ornament 2 Sheet Music and Covers (1910)

Another typographic ornament from thecover pageof “Country Life” by Ernest Newton. It was originally printed in the same blue as thedecorative page border, which is in the Art Nouveau style.

Keywords: ornaments, art nouveau, greyscale

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Added: 2010-08-20

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