Items matching borders, greyscale (results page 13)

Letter T from “Alphabet after Serlio” Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter T taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: letterp, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-05

+ S K L

Letter V from “Alphabet after Serlio” Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter V taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: letterv, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-12

+ S K L

Letter A from “Alphabet after Serlio” Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter A taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: lettera, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-22

+ S K L

Corner Bookcase Ornament Typo Ornamenty (1990)

This vignette or round image could ba a tailpiece, an ornament at the end of a chapter, or a decoration for an article about books or reading, perhaps, or a private secret place where we love to go, w [...]

Keywords: ornaments, books, pictures of books, decoration, tailpieces, round, circular, bookcases, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-09-20

+ S K L

Letter X from “Alphabet after Serlio” Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter X taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: letterx, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-12

+ S K L

Letter B from “Alphabet after Serlio” Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter B taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: letterb, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-22

+ S K L

Letter C from “Alphabet after Serlio” Letters & Lettering: A Treatise With 200 Examples (1921)

The letter C taken from Fig. 1.

Keywords: letterc, initials, lettering, constructed initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-23

+ S K L

Chapter Heading Woodcut featuring Eagle A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

This decorative woodcut was at the start of the preface; the woodcuts do not appear to bear any relation to the text, but are purely decorative. This one features an eagle, the symbol of the Roman Emp [...]

Keywords: decorations, eagles, chapterheads, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-07-31

+ S K L

Skull and one side of mandible of Musk Rat. American Animals (1902)

N nasal.     F frontal.     P parietal.     O occipital.     Z zygomatic arch.     B audital bulla.     Mx Maxillary.     PMx premaxillary.     I incisors.     M molars.     CP coronoid process.     C [...]

Keywords: diagrams, animals, skulls, death, rodents, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-13

+ S K L

Page detail: Art Neuveau border The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A detail from theJanuary Week 1 pageshowing the decorative border, which repeats on every fourth page throughout most of the book. A cat stands on a skull.

Keywords: borders, cats, skulls, sketches, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

+ S K L

Initial letter B Woodcut A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

A decorative initial letter “B” used as a drop cap (drop capital) at the start of a paragraph. The woodut (or wood engraving) shows a tree and a building in the background. I have included multiple [...]

Keywords: initials, letterb, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-09

+ S K L

Leland’s Itinerary, Volume 1 Page 1 The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary (1745)

Cambridge; Eltesle Village
Nunnery
Pandonia the Scottish VirgineHinshingbroke by Huntendune.
S. Neotes
Ainsbyri, En[ulphesbury

Keywords: page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-11

+ S K L

Title Page, Great Men and Famous Women Great Men and Famous Women, vol. II (1894)

Great Men and Famous WomenA Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in historyEdited by Charles F. HorneNew York: Selmar Press, PublisherCopyri [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-30

+ S K L

Page detail: Art Neuveau Cartouche The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The encyclopedia of the book says that a cartouche isthe enclosed space on a map within which an elaborate drawing of human figures, plant life, animals or heraldic devices and the name or title are p [...]

Keywords: cartouches, candles, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

+ S K L

1.—Martyrs suspended by one or both feet, by the arms with heavy weights attached to the feet; crucified; Christian women hung up by the hair Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyrs suspended by one foot.B. Suspended by both feet.C. Raised on the cross head uppermost.D. Nailed to the cross, head downwards.E. Hung up by both arms, heavy weights being attached to the fee [...]

Keywords: death, torture, nudity, people, punishments, religion, bare feet, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-26

+ S K L

Perseus und Andromeda. Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

A damsel in distress if ever the was one! The woman (Andromeda) is chained at wrist and ankle to a rock in the sea, and a viscious sea-monster is about to swaller her up. But look! The helmeted and sa [...]

Keywords: dragons, monsters, chains, bare feet, gods, heroes, swords, water, waves, mythology, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-06-14

+ S K L

Title Page (Laws... of the New Forest) Laws and History of the New Forest (1811)

Historical Inquiries / concerning / Forests and Forest Laws, / with / Topographical Remarks, / upon the / Ancient and Modern State / of / The New Forest, / in / The County of Southampton. / By / Perci [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-07-13

+ S K L

10.—Astronomical Instrument. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The precise description which Cæsar has thus left us if tghe religion of the Druids—a religion which, whatever doubts may have been thrown upon the subject, would appear to have been the prevailing re [...]

Keywords: astrology, occult, druids, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-03-13

+ S K L

11.—Gaulish Deity. Cernunnos. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Celtic god Cernunnos is crowned with antlers. He is sometimes also called as Herne the Hunter, and may be the Green Man of British folklore.“[...] Under the church of Notre Dame, at Paris, were fo [...]

Keywords: spirit, druids, gods, religion, greyscale

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2005-03-13

+ S K L R N

Title page detail: facing the gorgon The New World (1671)

In this engraving from the title page, a two-faced woman uses a mirror to look safely at the medusa in the border of the picture. She is Prudence, trampling on Envy, a man with snakes instead of hair, [...]

Keywords: people, mythological creatures, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-04-09

+ S K L