Items matching borders, colour (results page 10)

Rosalind. In an Old Monastery Garden. The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

This painting of a young lady, Rosalind, in a (sketched) garden shows the young woman wearing brown dress, cloak and boots, and looking very much a product of 1914. She has red lips.

Keywords: people, women, gardens, art, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-08-17

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Printer’s ornament with birds The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Two birds touch beaks, perhaps a mother feeding a baby, in this printer’s ornament, used as a tailpiece (tail-piece) at the end of a chapter. The design includes a harp, roses, ribbon or bunting and [...]

Keywords: ornaments, music, romance, roses, birds, musical instruments, harps, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-08-26

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Front Cover Chatterbox Annual (1916)

The front cover of the 1916Chatterboxannual features a picture of a crafty boy using an umbrella to shield himself from snowballs thrown at him by other children. There is also a higher resolution (en [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Snowball Fight! Chatterbox Annual (1916)

This illustration, taken from thefront coverof the 1916Chatterboxannual, features a picture of a crafty boy using an umbrella to shield himself from snowballs thrown at him by other children.

Keywords: children, people, illustrations for children, snow, umbrellas, colour, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Bookplate (ex libris) from Volume III, colour version The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

This is a lower-resolution scan of thebookplage.

Keywords: bookplates, colour, heraldry

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-14

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Frontispiece: When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole World (coloured version) The Lost Boy (1913)

A version ofWhen He Comes He will Rule over the Whole Worldthat I coloured, after finding a picture of the original painting online at an AmericanAntiques Roadshowpage.

Keywords: colour, paintings, religion, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-16

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (green/brown version) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from thetitle pageof this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers an [...]

Keywords: borders, cherubs, mythical creatures, flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-03

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (red version) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from thetitle pageof this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers an [...]

Keywords: borders, cherubs, flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-03

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Early Victorian Border from Book Cover Gems by the Way-Side: An Offering of Purity and Truth (1878)

This Victorian decorative border is taken from the cover of the book; it features flowers and berries. Note that it is made from eight separate pieces that you could move around if you wanted: for ex [...]

Keywords: borders, floriated borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-28

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Title Page, Ball on Sussex Sussex Painted (1906)

SUSSEX
Painted by Wilfrid Ball
Published by Adam & Charles Black
Soho Square, London

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-19

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The Good Shepherd Bible Symbols (1908)

ernhard Plockhorst’s famous painting shows Jesus as a caucasian male (with a long straight nose), surrounded by sheep. He is barefoot, and carries a lamb, holding also a shepherd’s crook. He is protra [...]

Keywords: easter, religion, portraits, people, sheep, art, bare feet, purple, colour

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-06-22

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John Carroll D..D., Portrait and Signature My Boy Life (1882)

A portrait of the author, Dr. John Carroll, and a reproduction of his signature.

Keywords: portraits, people, beards, signatures, handwriting, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-01

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Frontispiece: A Girl’s Face, after Greuze Cassell’s Family Magazine (1889)

This portrait, an engraving printed in red ink with a border in a delicate pale green, illustrates a poem by J. R> Eastwood:AGIRL’Sface where, the budding roseOf youthful beauty blooms and growsBy nat [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, girls, children, faces, poems, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-18

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Title page from National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

The title page appears at first quite ordinary, but on closer inspection is in fact very startling. The reason is that the yellow colour has been printed! To be sure there is also foxing and brownin [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour, borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-07-28

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Title Page, The British Isles (Vol 1) The British Isles (1905)

“The British IslesDepicted by pen and cameraWith thirty-nine coloured plates and siz Rembrandt photogravuresSpecial EditionVolume I.—Section I.Cassel and Company Limited, London, Paris, New York and M [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-07-05

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Frontispiece: Beata Beatrix Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

Beata Beatrix . . .Tate GalleryFrom a painting by Rossetti.Because mine eyes can never have their fillOf looking at my lady’s lovely face,         I will so fix my gazeThat I may become bless’d, behol [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-25

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Frontispiece: What the sun looks like when it’s asleep A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

A small boy kneels between two trees in a dark forest; behind him is a brown house. In front of him and beneath him is a great cave, brightly lit by the sleeping sun, who has taken the formof a man ly [...]

Keywords: people, children, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, sleep, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-24

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Frontispiece: Why has your tree no flowers while ours are pink? The Sun’s Babies (1910)

The sun shone brightly, the air was clear and warm, and the apple fairies came up from their workrooms for their spring dance on the young clover-leaves. “But where is our little sister?” they asked. [...]

Keywords: fairies, wings, gnomes, mythological creatures, illustrations for children, trees, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-05-25

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Frontispiece: Dinant, Showing Old Castle and Cathedral The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (1914)

The building with the elongated dome structure is the main church, the thirteenth century Notre Dame de Dinant.When we fared forth into the streets of Dinant the morning after our arrival, we found a [...]

Keywords: views, cityscapes, churches, mountains, rivers, water, colour, art, buildings, houses, rooves

Places shown: Dinant; Wallonia; Namur; Belgium

Added: 2018-08-24

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Title Page Quiet Roads and Sleepy Villages (1914)

The text reads:

QUIET ROADS and SLEEPY VILLAGES

By ALLAN FEA, Author of “Old World Places,” “Nooks and Corners of Old England,” &c.

New York

McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY

1914

The printing is in black and red.

Keywords: page images, title pages, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-29

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