Items matching borders, greyscale (results page 4)

Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils!The original (this version) was black; there are alsobrown and green borderversion, and asidways, or portra [...]

Keywords: borders, floral, floriated borders, decoration, floriated borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-02-17

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border in Green and Brown The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils!This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in b [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, floral, floriated borders, decoration

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-02-17

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Clip-art: Victorian Floral Border, Landscape Version The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils!This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in b [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, floral, floriated borders, decoration

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-02-17

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Vintage gold circular leaf border or frame The Circling Year (1870)

Today people looking at this circular wreath design stamped in gold would think first of Christmas: there’s holly and ivy and what could pass for ornaments. But if you look more closely it represents [...]

Keywords: borders, circular, gold, winter, seasons, christmas, xmas, frames, cartici, ornaments, frames, holly, ivy, mistletoe, leaves, foliate borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-01-20

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Vintage border from The Book for All front cover Das Buch Fur Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

I separated out the formal geometric border from thefront coverof this book. It has a rustic, vintage appearance, and I decided to leave it that way. This full-page border features fleurs-de-lys, sty [...]

Keywords: borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-06-03

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Frontispiece - Portrait of Goethe with his signature Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A portrait of the writer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe).

Note: German copyright today is 90 years after death, but in 1882 it was shorter, and I do not know if this image is out of copyright.

Keywords: portraits, greyscale

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Added: 2010-01-30

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Title Page for “Old English Country Cottages” Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Old English Country Cottages

Edited by Charles Holme

Offices of ‘The Studio,’ London, paris and new York, MCMVI

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

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Added: 2006-06-13

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Title Page Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

THE MEDIÆVAL STYLESOF THE ENGLISHPARISH CHURCHA Survey of their Development, Designand FeaturesbyF. E. HOWARDJoint Author of “English Church Woodworkduring the Mediæval Period.”Illustrated from Photog [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-10

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Chester, from the Alford Road. The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

Probably this view was drawn from the road between Chester and Aldford, as it’s written today, at the bank of the River Dee.

Keywords: views, cityscapes, cows, animals, water, rivers, boats, towers, trees, fences, cities, cityscapes, towers, churches, buildings, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2018-08-07

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Victorian border, Gold on Black. Christian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

This Victorian Floral Border is taken from the front cover.Gold border on a black background.Red border on a white background.Black border on a white background.Moody silver border on a black backgrou [...]

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-08

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Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit Auber Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

From an engraving by G. Deblois, 1867.Auber was a French composer from Paris, born in 1782 and died in May 1871. He wrote a series of comic oeras with Scribe and Auber, including “Leicester” (based on [...]

Keywords: portraits, musicians, greyscale

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Added: 2010-11-14

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Title Page The Leisure Hour (1904)

The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated MagazineforHome Reading.Volume: 1904 – 5. 4 Bouverie St., London E.C.Atists in this volume:Barraud, AllanCopping, HaroldDunlop, M. P.Forestire, A.Finnemore,R.I., J.Fu [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Holly Wreath The Old Peabody Pew (1907)

This detail from thefront coverof the book is a green holly wreath with red berries, a symbol of Christmas.

Keywords: christmas, wreaths, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-01-06

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Frontispiece: United States Capitol, Washington Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

Engraving (probably a woodcut) of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. The building was burned down in the War of 1812 by the British (from Canada), and this engraving was made before the new c [...]

Keywords: buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Washington; DC; USA

Added: 2009-01-25

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Frontispiece 1: A Titan of the polar sea lazily drifting with the current Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

A photograph of an iceberg; it is not, I think, the one that sunk the Titanic; there is a photograph of that iceberg elsewhere in the book.

Keywords: icebergs, water, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Vintage border with peacock-feather styilized flowers The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This full-page Victorian engraved border features flowers that are drawn with lines to shade them and with tendrils that give an effect reminding me of the “eyes” in a peacock’s tail feathers.I also m [...]

Keywords: borders, victoriana, flowers, floriated borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-05-28

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Vintage border with peacock-feather style flowers, in blue The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This is a blue version of the Victorianvinatege full-page floral border.

Keywords: borders, victoriana, flowers, floriated borders, colour, blue

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-05-28

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The grand Door of Barfreston Church in Kent. The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

On some of these arches is commonly over the key-stone represented God the Father, or our Saviour surrounded with angels; and below a melange of foliage, animals, often ludicrous, and sometimes even i [...]

Keywords: entrances, norman architecture, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Barfreston; Kent; England

Added: 2008-04-23

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Ornament: Cornucopia The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This antique typographic ornament was used as a chapter tail-piece at the end of a section of the preface. You could also use it as a decorative page element. This was scanned from a 1780s book, and i [...]

Keywords: ornaments, cornucopias, fruit, harvest, horns, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-25

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Druidical Antiquities The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Published by S. Hooper April 16, 1784; the illustration is signedGoodnight Sculpt.This is an overview: I have scanned the individual parts of this image separately and will add them along with the des [...]

Keywords: druids, megaliths, temples, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-03-21

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