Items matching castles, colour (results page 10)

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

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

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-05-28

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Architecture (full page print)The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The characteristic marks of this [early Norman] style are these: The walls are very thick, generally without buttresses; the arches, both within and without, as well as those over the doors and window [...]

Keywords: architecture, pillars, columns, norman architecture, colour

Places shown: England

Added: 2014-08-30

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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 birdsThe 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 CoverChatterbox Annual (1916)

The front cover of the 1916 Chatterbox annual 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 ( [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Snowball Fight!Chatterbox Annual (1916)

This illustration, taken from the front cover of the 1916 Chatterbox annual, 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 versionThe Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

This is a lower-resolution scan of the bookplage.

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 of When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole World that I coloured, after finding a picture of the original painting online at an American Antiques Roadshow page.

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 the title page of this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers [...]

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 the title page of this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers [...]

Keywords: borders, cherubs, flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-03

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Title Page, Ball on SussexSussex 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 ShepherdBible 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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God and my Divine Right: Royal CrestAlt-England (1888)

The Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain was printed in black and gold leaf possite the inside front cover (on the end page) of this book. The paper is textured, giving an almost [...]

Keywords: heraldry, colour, coats of arms, unicorns, gold

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-02-08

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John Carroll D..D., Portrait and SignatureMy 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 GreuzeCassell’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: A GIRL’S face where, the budding rose Of youthful beauty blooms and grow [...]

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 GalleryNational 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 Isles Depicted by pen and camera With thirty-nine coloured plates and siz Rembrandt photogravures Special Edition Volume I.—Section I. Cassel and Company Limited, London, Paris, New York [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-07-05

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Frontispiece: Beata BeatrixDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

Beata Beatrix . . . Tate Gallery From a painting by Rossetti. Because mine eyes can never have their fill Of looking at my lady’s lovely face,         I will so fix my gaze That I may become bless’d, [...]

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 asleepA 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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