Items matching bookplates, greyscale (results page 117)

Rustic twig and leaf border (portrait version) The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

This full-page border features rustic twigs and stylized acanthus leaves at the corners. It was used to frame portraits of theVictorian Royal Family.There is also alandscape or sideways version of thi [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, twigs, leaves, rustic, greyscale

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Added: 2017-05-04

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Rustic twig and leaf border (landscape, or wide version) The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 3) (1878)

This full-page border features rustic twigs and stylized acanthus leaves at the corners. It was used to frame portraits of theVictorian Royal Family.

There is also anupright version of this border.

Keywords: borders, frames, twigs, leaves, rustic, greyscale

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Added: 2017-05-04

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Rustic full-page border of twigs in four sections The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

This steel-engraved border is made up of twigs which divide the page into four areas.

The border is taken from a engraving offourteenth century costumes.

Keywords: borders, twigs, greyscale

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Added: 2015-06-30

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Full-page simple border of twigs The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

Full-page border of twigs; this is a single version of thefour-way rustic borderthat does not divide the page into four.

The border is taken from a engraving offourteenth century costumes.

Keywords: borders, twigs, greyscale

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Added: 2015-06-30

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Male and Female Costume, Time of Richard II. The National and Domestic History of England (Vol 1) (1878)

King Richard II of England reigned from 1377 to 1399. So this picture shows people dressed for court in the end of the fourteenth century.The picture shows two mearded men with long pointed soft shoes [...]

Keywords: costumes, people, men, women, medieval, mediaeval, shoes, pointy shoes, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2020-04-06

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Portraits of Samuel and Daniel The Holy Court (1663)

These two portraits were made on a single plate (probably a woodcut or wood engraving); no source is given for the likenesses (or possibly unlikenesses) of these two characters from the scriptures. T [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, prophets, faces, beards, moustaches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

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Added: 2009-12-13

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Daniel The Holy Court (1663)

Wood-engraved portrait of Daniel taken from thepicture of Daniel and Samuel, in the section entitledThe Statesmen, following on from Moses.DAnielentred into the Court by Captivity, stayed there by Mor [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, faces, moustaces, biblical characters, jewish history, greyscale

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Added: 2009-12-13

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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

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

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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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Bookplate Pictures of old books (2003)

An “ex libris” or bookplate from Swansea Training College, showing a castle gate with raise port-cullis, and with the motto “Gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche” from Chaucer’s Clerk, and a Welsh m [...]

Keywords: bookplates, heraldry, colour

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Added: 2011-08-13

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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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