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The Mock Turtle and Gryphon sing to Alice Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

‘This here young lady,’ said the Gryphon, ‘she wants for to know your history, she do.’‘I’ll tell it her,’ said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: ‘sit down, both of you, and don’t speak a word t [...]

Keywords: alice, mythical creatures, rocks, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-18

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The Lobster Quadrille Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon demonstrating the Lobster Quadrille to Alice.So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and then treading on her toes when they passed too close, a [...]

Keywords: alice, mythological creatures, gryphons, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-30

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Lobster primping before a mirror Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare,    “You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.”As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose    Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns [...]

Keywords: alice, fish, lobsters, cartoons, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-30

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White Rabbit, dressed as herald, blowing trumpet Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other. . .‘Herald, read the accusation!’ said the King.On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on th [...]

Keywords: alice, rabbits, heraldry, trumpets, musical instruments, christmas, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-04

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The Mad Hatter arrives hastily in court to testify Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

‘Call the first witness,’ said the King; and the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and called out, ‘First witness!’The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in one hand a [...]

Keywords: alice, people, hats, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-04

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Mad Hatter just as hastily leaves Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The Mad Hatter runs out of court in his socks, carrying sandwich and (bitten) teacup.

Keywords: alice, people, humour, food, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-04

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Giant Alice upsets the jury (literally) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

‘Here!’ cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of [...]

Keywords: alice, people, humour, animals, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-26

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King reflecting in court Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. ‘Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?’ he asked.‘Begin at the beginning,’ the King said gravely, ‘and go on till you come to the end: then stop.’[... the W [...]

Keywords: alice, humour, courtrooms, royalty, kings, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-26

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Nothing but a pack of cards! Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

‘Off with her head!’ the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.‘Who cares for you?’ said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by this time.) ‘You’re nothing but a pack of cards!’At thi [...]

Keywords: alice, cards, games, people, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-26

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Tailpiece ornament: flower My Boy Life (1882)

This woodcut of a flower on a stem with a leaf was used as an end-of-chapter ornament, or tailpiece, in the second book bound in this one volume; the book is called “Ben Owen: A Lancashire Story.”

Keywords: tailpieces, ornaments, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-26

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Little Billing, Northamptonshire. Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural Period: Norman]LITTLE BILLING.This jar-like and singular Font may be placed early in the Norman period; both irregular in shape and rude in workmanship, it is chiefly interesting for it [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, inscriptions, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Little Billing; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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Chalk, Kent Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

This pleasing specimen of a plain Norman Font is cut in Purbeck Marble, but now white-washed. It is 2ft. 5½in. high; 1ft. 6½in. across the top; the bowl is 12in. deep, lined with lead, and with a wa [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Chalk; Kent; England

Added: 2013-01-23

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Strubby, Lincolnshire Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural period: Decorated]STRUBBY.The design of the bowl of this Font was not unfrequent in the fourteenth century; it is octagonal, and every side is enriched with Decorated tracery, differing [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Strubby; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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King’s Cliff, Northamptonshire Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural Period: Early English]KING’S CLIFFIs a strong and massive Early English Font. The bowl is cupshaped, and supported on an octagonal shaft of nearly equal dimensions. It is ornamented w [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: King’s Cliff; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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Gawdey of Norfolk: The silver tortoise The Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

An heraldic emblazon (a shield) showing an old woodcut of a tortoise.

Keywords: heraldry, animals, tortoises, shields, reptiles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-02-09

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Haynes School Charter from 1850 Ephemera and Things Found In Old Books (1806)

Somehow i ended up with this manuscript, which authorized the founding of a Church school for the poor in Haynes, Bedfordshire, UK, in 1850. Probably this was the school that’s in the South-West cor [...]

Keywords: ephemera, paper, contracts, calligraphy, copperplate, script, writing, greyscale

Places shown: Haynes Chrch End; Haynes; Milton Keynes; bedfordshire; England

Added: 2021-06-27

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Heraldic Crest and Symbols of Art Il Museo Pio Clementino (1792)

This heraldic crest is from the title page to Volume IV of the huge book. If you are able to give a formal description of this image I’d love to hear from you; informally, it shows an armorial bearin [...]

Keywords: heraldry, shields, crests, science, symbols, mathematics, coins, money, nudity, people, cherubs, mythical creatures, centaurs, art, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-12

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Victorian antique style decorative alphabet from Stuttgart Various Initial Letters and Alphabets (1850)

Otto Weisert was a type-maker in Stuttgart, in Germany. Although he is best known today for the typeface Arnold Boecklin, he made many other designs; this one is Initialen No. 17, or Initial No.18.The [...]

Keywords: alphabets, complete alphabets, decorative initials, initial letters, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-07-28

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captions for plates 57 – 64 Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

The captions are in German, and I cannot understand them. If you want to send them to me (UTF-8 please!) I’ll put the transcriptions up on the pages for the corresponding plates.

Keywords: captions, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-03-10

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Queen Bohemia swallowed up alive Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The chapter heading isChap IV. The Wicked Lives, and Woful Deaths of several Popes, and likewise of Apostates, and Desperate Persecutors, but the running heads on each page sayThe woful Deaths of Wick [...]

Keywords: punishments, religion, people, royalty, death, woodcuts, justice, animals, dogs, carriages, city walls, bone, greyscale

Places shown: Prague; Bohemia

Added: 2006-03-16

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