Items matching castles, colour (results page 18)

Windsor Castle, The Royal ResidencePicturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1 (1870)

The history of Windsor Castle is the history of England and of England’s Kings and Queens. [...] The building is worthy of England, and of the long and illustrious line of monarchs who have sat upon o [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, buildings, water, boats, flags, views, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Windsor; Berkshire; England

Added: 2009-11-18

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Page 1: In those old daysOut to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

“In those old days of the lost sunshine   Of youth” (p. 1) The picture is taken from a pencil or charcoal sketch of an orchard of three trees, and, judging by the full leaves and the sharp shadows, ro [...]

Keywords: trees, orchards, borders, colour, page images, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-01-16

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1.—January Week 1The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

Tell the truth and shame the—family. I have also made higher-resolution versions of the cartouche surrounding the word January [cartouche] and the border decoration on the left [goth border] as separa [...]

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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

A detail from the January Week 1 page showing 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

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

The encyclopedia of the book says that a cartouche is the 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 [...]

Keywords: cartouches, candles, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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Title Page, Descrtion of the new WorldThe New World (1671)

De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of beschryving van AMERICA en ’t ZUID-LAND with text and engravings/woodcuts by Arnoldus Montanus, Amsterdam, 1671. I made a separate image of the engraving from this p [...]

Keywords: title pages, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-04-09

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Decorative initial (drop cap) DThe New World (1671)

A decorative letter “D” used as an initial capital (a drop capital, or drop cap) in this Dutch book from 1671.

Keywords: letterd, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-18

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Decorative initial letter O with cherubs cooking soup (coloured version)Fabrica... (1543)

This decorative initial letter “O” was used as a drop cap on the first page of the main text of the book; in this copy at Cambridge University Library, the initial has been painted in colour over the [...]

Keywords: lettero, initials, cherubs, children, historiated initials, inhabited initials, nudity, colour, dragons, mythical creatures, borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-11-28

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Ecce Ancilla Domini [Behold the blesséd Mary]Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

This is that blessed Mary, pre-elect God’s Virgin. Gone is a great while, and she Dwelt young in Nazareth of Galilee, Unto God’s will she brought devout respect, Profound simplicity of intellect, And [...]

Keywords: religion, paintings, people, saints, mary, annunciation, biblical scenes, art, christianity, xmas, easter, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-23

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Rome: PantheonDie Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes (1884)

This architectural drawing of the Pantheon in Rome features intricate detail, drawings of the statues and columns with their capitals, a cut-away showing the passages inside the walls, and includes sh [...]

Keywords: architecture, diagrams, temples, roman remains, backgrounds, wallpaper, widescreen, domes, pillars, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-03-05

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2. 8th Century.Ornamental Alphabets, Ancient and Mediæval (1879)

British Museum.

Calligraphy from an 8th Century manuscript, presumably Anglo-Saxon.

Original scanned at 1200 dpi on an Epson E10000 professional scanner.

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-09-21

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2. Castle Hedingham, EssexThe Growth of the English House (1909)

The Keep (cir. 1130). The head of the entrance door is visible on the left: the opening on the right is modern [written almost 100 years ago] Castle Hedingham today is open to the public three days a [...]

Keywords: castles, ruins, towers, colour

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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The gentleman offered his services, took her up in his arms, and carried her down the hill.Works of Jane Austen (1906)

A gentleman carrying a gun, with two pointers [dogs] playing round him, was passing up the hill and within a few yards of Marianne, when her accident happened. He put down his gun and ran to her assi [...]

Keywords: people, jane austen, dogs, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Page 2: Wasn’t it pleasant, O brother mineOut 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 visit [...]

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 CountryLaws 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 of Rumwood Court scaled 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 CourtArt 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. Since E. Arthur Rowe died more than 75 years ago, this imag [...]

Keywords: colour, houses, flowers, gardens, manors

Places shown: Rumwood Court; Langley; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-07

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23.—Remains of Old SarumOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“Across the plain [Salisbury plain], at a distance [from Stonehenge] not exceeding twenty miles, was the great temple and Druidical settlement of Avebury. The town and hill-fort of Sarum was close at [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, hills, trees, views, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Old Sarum; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-07-26

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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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