Items matching borders, colour (results page 19)

Page 2: Wasn’t it pleasant, O brother mine Out to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

“Wasn’t it pleasant, O brother mine,In those old days of the lost sunshine    Of youth—when the Saturday’s chores were through,    And the “Sunday’s wood” in the kitchen, too,    And we went visiting, [...]

Keywords: colour, page images

Places shown: USA

Added: 2006-01-16

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Plate II. Canterbury Cathedral. South West View. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

Canterbury Cathedral Church, pictured here under a rather dramatic and gloomy sky, burned down in 1174, and was rebuilt as shown here; the building work was finished in the year 1184.

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, towers, gothic, gothic architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2010-05-22

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Map of the New Forest and Adjacent Country Laws and History of the New Forest (1811)

Map of the New Forest and surrounding area, published in 1811; it shows Christchurch Bay and the Southampton River to the South, Titchfield and Owselbury to the East, Christchurch and Cranborne to the [...]

Keywords: maps, colour, forests, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: New Forest; Hampshire; England

Added: 2005-07-13

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Rumwood Court [screen background version] Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

A version ofRumwood Courtscaled and cropped to make it suitable for use as a screen background or ‘desktop wallpaper’.

Keywords: colour, backgrounds, houses, flowers, gardens, manors, wallpaper

Places shown: Rumwood Court; Langley; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-07

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Rumwood Court Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods (1908)

Rumwood Court, Langley, Kent, from a water-colour drawing by E. Arthur Rowe [1863-1922].Today, Rumwood Court is a Grade II listed building; this Elizabethan manor could be yours, since it’sfor sale.Si [...]

Keywords: colour, houses, flowers, gardens, manors

Places shown: Rumwood Court; Langley; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-07

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3. 8th and 9th Centuries. Anglo-Saxon. Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

Calligraphy from England in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Keywords: initials, alphabets, lettering, blue, calligraphy, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-29

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3. Castle Hedingham, Essex The Growth of the English House (1909)

Plans of the Keep.
1. Ground Floor, or Basement.
2. First, or Entrance Floor.
3. The Great Hall.
4. Upper part of Hall, with Gallery.
5. Room over Hall.

Keywords: castles, plans, maps, architecture, colour

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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4. Castle Hedingham, Essex. The Growth of the English House (1909)

A window of the gallery in the hall.

Keywords: diagrams, plans, windows, castles, architecture, colour

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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Antique map of Kent The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

This map of Kent was published in 1783; it shows, in the Lathe of Sutton, Woolwich, Greenwich, Eltham, Lewisham, Brownley, Dartford, S. Mary Cray, Dunton, Farmingham, Sevenoke [Sevenoak], Westerham. S [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-13

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He received the kindest welcome from her; and shyness, coldness, reserve, could not stand against such a reception Works of Jane Austen (1906)

Mrs. Dashwood was surprised only for a moment at seeing him; for his coming to Barton was, in her opinion, of all things the most natural. Her joy and expression of regard long outlived her wonder. [...]

Keywords: people, jane austen, dogs, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-01-25

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H Sperling: Horrified Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901)

Heinrich Sperling was a German artist known for painting animals, especially dogs and horses, but also cats. His paintings were full of realism but also often humour. Here, inEntsetzt(Horrified), an o [...]

Keywords: animals, pets, dogs, cats, surrealism, windows, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-03-01

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Page 3. The Sunday Wood Out to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

The picture shows two boys carring small logs suitable for use in the woodstove in the background; the nearer boy is barefoot and the farther one (whose feet are not in the picture) wears a yellow hat [...]

Keywords: colour, people, bare feet, people, children, interiors, page images, illustrations for children

Places shown: USA

Added: 2006-01-16

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St. Simon Stylites, Hermit of the Pillar Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

(page 35)

Saint Simon, partly bald but with a long flowing beard, kneels barefoot on the top of a pillar and holds up a cross. He is wearing sackcloth.

Keywords: people, crosses, religion, bare feet, clouds, pillars, beards, easter, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2003-03-31

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37.—Writing My Master’s Words La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The poet sits at a writing desk let by a candle. The image is printed in black and gold.“I resolved that I would make a ditty, before I left my chamber, according to the words my master had spoken.” ( [...]

Keywords: scholars, pictures of books, candles, colour, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-12-20

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Plate 3, Page with foliated border from 1478 Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

A reproduction of a page from a book printed at the office of Erhart Ratdolt in Venice in 1478,Pomponii Melle Cosographie de situ orbis liber primis.The German caption in the 1878 book containing this [...]

Keywords: borders, page images, criblé, floriated borders, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-12-21

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Plate III. Gloucester Cathedral. West Front and South Side. The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

Gloucester Cathedral was built 900 years ago (it was completed in 1100); it was originally the Abbey of St. Peter, part of a Benedictine monastery. Here we see the towers and spires, the gothic windo [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, churches, towers, windows, gothic, gothic architecture, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Gloucester; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2010-05-22

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Full-page foliated border from 1478. Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This ornate foliated border is festive (because I coloured it red) and swirly. It’s from the title page of a 1478 book, over 500 years old.See thefull title page.Note that one side of the border is wi [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders, criblé

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-28

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Gloucester Cathedral Old Print - Wallpaper Version The Cathedral Churches of England (1925)

A version ofPlate IIIwithout the border, scaled very slightly to make a computer desktop or wallpaper image.

Keywords: cathedrals, religion, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Gloucester; Gloucestershire; England

Added: 2010-05-22

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4.—View on the Grand Canal Venice (1907)

The Grand Canal, Venice; theCanal Grandeis the largest canal in Venice.

Keywords: water, canals, colour, cities, buildings, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-05-22

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Byron’s Pool Cambridge (1920)

Cambridge is no city of spires. She lies belted with woods in the midst of a wide plain. To south, to west, to east stretches a lowland landscape, delicately moulded, rich in pasture and corn-bearing [...]

Keywords: colour, water, trees

Places shown: Grantchester; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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