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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 2788x2242, 6969x5605, 800x600 | Map of the AmericasThe New World (1671) Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americæ Descriptio per Gerardum a Schagen. This map of both North America and South America shows California as an island. The map was popular, and was probably first [...] Keywords: maps, greyscale, wallpaper, backgrounds Places shown: none Added: 2008-04-09 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 100x100, 159x161, 198x200, 212x214, 283x286, 75x75 | Initial letter D from first page of textThe New World (1671) Capital D, a decorative initial “D” used as a drop cap for the first paragraph of the text. Keywords: initials, letterd, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2010-02-18 + S K L |
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| 1062x1405, 151x200, 531x703 | Guild of Carriage-MakersAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882) This incredibly busy design is for the guild of carriage-makers (I think) in 1612. The border includes two scantily-clad women, six scantily-clad or naked small children, two gryphons, a bunch of baro [...] Keywords: heraldry, borders, full-page borders, page images, frames, people, cherubs, nudity, women, boys, shields, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-10-30 + S K L |
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100x100, 205x200, 300x292, 705x687 | Decorative initial letter O with cherubs cooking soupFabrica... (1543) A Decorative initial letter “O” used as a drop cap on the first page of this famous book. The outer border around the outside of the letter “O” has oak leaves and dragons; inside the “O” we see naked [...] Keywords: lettero, initials, cherubs, children, nudity, bare feet, dragons, historiated initials, inhabited initials, borders, mythical creatures, cooking, food, greyscale Places shown: unspecified Added: 2010-01-19 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1062x1405, 151x200, 531x703 | Ornate baroque-stye border with herubs and gryphonsAllegorien und Embleme, Vol II (1882) This border is from the 1612 sign for the Nurenberg Guild of Carriage-Makers made by Adolf Mießner. The border includes two scantily-clad women, six scantily-clad or naked small children, two gryphons [...] Keywords: borders, full-page borders, cherubs, bare feet, women, people, nudity, scrollwork, cartici, frames, inhabited borders, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2018-10-30 + S K L |
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1152x720, 1280x720, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1600x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 356x200, 750x422 | Boy in a BoxRoyal Children of English History (1904) A boy, probably a prince, is hiding in a large and ornate chest in this sketch. Keywords: children, boys, people, illustrations for children, chests, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-09-08 + S K L |
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145x200, 1636x2250, 545x750, 818x1125 | Angel MessengerEveryman (1930) The angel messenger announces the start of the play “Everyman” with raised hand and sword. He wears an ankle-length cloak fastened with a broach around his neck and a belt above his waist, has wings a [...] Keywords: angels, religion, christmas, wings, christianity, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2015-12-19 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 163x200, 491x603, 654x803, 872x1071 | A Mameluke in Full Armour.Pictureseque Egypt Vol II (1878) We have seen how deplorable was the condition of the country [1790s Egypt] at that time, drained by the greed of the Turkish Pacha and the Mameluke Beys; its population, which at the present day [1870 [...] Keywords: people, costumes, soldiers, weapons, spears, swords, helmets, greyscale Places shown: Egypt Added: 2010-12-28 + S K L |
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1600x1600, 200x200, 800x800 | The Wassail BowlPeter Parley’s Annual (1856) A bearded man in a tall hat and cravat, eighteenth or early nineteenth century leggings, and with a garland round his head reclines, one hand raised. Nearby, in the undergrowth and sitting on a rock, [...] Keywords: christmas, wassail, people, december, winter, bowls, beards, bare feet, religion, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2013-12-14 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 149x200, 1753x2349, 560x750, 877x1175 | Aldermaston, BerkshireThe Mansions of England in the Olden Time (1906) Aldermaston Court, the manor house in Aldermaston Park, was largely destroyed by fire just a few years after Joseph Nash painted this picture. Today (2020) the Victorian replacement manor is for sale. [...] Keywords: interiors, mansions, stately homes, staircases, ceilings, people, statuart, dogs, chidren, women, boys, sculpture, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, carving, costumes, greyscale Places shown: Aldermaston; Berkshire; England Added: 2020-10-15 + S K L R N |
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1611x850, 3221x1700, 379x200, 700x369, 900x475 | Theban Alphabet of Petter ApponusCollected Occult Images (1690) The source of this alphabet is unclear; Agrippa ascribed it to Honorius. It was used, Agrippa wrote, to make seals naming “certain spirits” so that the writing could not be read. I do not know why a s [...] Keywords: occult, alphabets, astrology, symbols, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2014-09-20 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested |
