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129x200, 1658x2575, 483x750, 829x1287, 829x1288 | Haynes School Charter from 1850Ephemera and Things Found In Old Books (1806) Somehow i ended up with this manuscript, which authorized the founding of a Church school for the poor in Haynes, Bedfordshire, UK, in 1850. Probably this was the school that’s in the South-West cor [...] Keywords: ephemera, paper, contracts, calligraphy, copperplate, script, writing, greyscale Places shown: Haynes Chrch End; Haynes; Milton Keynes; bedfordshire; England Added: 2021-06-27 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x640, 1152x720, 1280x720, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1600x900, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 1920x1200, 319x200, 720x450, 960x600 | Heraldic Crest and Symbols of ArtIl Museo Pio Clementino (1792) This heraldic crest is from the title page to Volume IV of the huge book. If you are able to give a formal description of this image I’d love to hear from you; informally, it shows an armorial bearin [...] Keywords: heraldry, shields, crests, science, symbols, mathematics, coins, money, nudity, people, cherubs, mythical creatures, centaurs, art, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2011-06-12 + S K L |
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1514x3115, 757x1558, 97x200 | Victorian antique style decorative alphabet from StuttgartVarious Initial Letters and Alphabets (1850) Otto Weisert was a type-maker in Stuttgart, in Germany. Although he is best known today for the typeface Arnold Boecklin, he made many other designs; this one is Initialen No. 17, or Initial No.18. Th [...] Keywords: alphabets, complete alphabets, decorative initials, initial letters, typography, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2020-07-28 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 149x200, 1800x2411, 560x750, 900x1206 | Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent MoonModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band III (1890) A decorative initial, vignetted, inhabited: a drop cap. A large thin spidery letter W at the upper right of a picture of a naked man with wings and with horns on his head, a demon, perhaps, dragging a [...] Keywords: initials, letterw, drop caps, demons, supernatural creatures, moon, nudity, bare feet, men, women, people, kidnapping, devils, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2026-05-21 + S K L |
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1255x1167, 1673x1556, 215x200, 705x656, 941x875 | Queen Bohemia swallowed up aliveWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685) The chapter heading is Chap IV. The Wicked Lives, and Woful Deaths of several Popes, and likewise of Apostates, and Desperate Persecutors, but the running heads on each page say The woful Deaths of Wi [...] Keywords: punishments, religion, people, royalty, death, woodcuts, justice, animals, dogs, carriages, city walls, bone, greyscale Places shown: Prague; Bohemia Added: 2006-03-17 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1223x1106, 1630x1475, 221x200, 687x622, 917x830 | A Blasphemer turned into a black dogWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685) The caption in the woodcut mentions page 4, and there is indeed an account there of someone being turned into a black dog. Keywords: religion, animals, dogs, death, spooky, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-04-28 + S K L |
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1223x1134, 1630x1512, 216x200, 687x637, 916x850 | A Woman torn in pieces by the Devil. pa. 14.Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685) The “pa. 14.” refers to page 14, which has the following text: XVII. At Oster, a Village in Germany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, bo [...] Keywords: religion, people, spooky, greyscale Places shown: Oster; Mosel; Germany Added: 2006-07-29 + S K L R N |
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1215x875, 2431x1750, 278x200, 750x540 | Avenue of SighsModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901) In the Modern Kuinst book from which I scanned this full-page engraving, the picture is captioned (in German) Leaf Walk, but it was originally exhibited at the Große Berliner Kunstaustellung in 1901 w [...] Keywords: nature, trees, paths, forests, spirits, spirit, ghosts, spooky, peaceful, peacefulness, quiet, peace, people, walking, autumn, greyscale Places shown: unspecified Added: 2024-11-08 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1227x888, 2453x1775, 276x200, 750x543 | G. Tornai: At the haremModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901) A woman, baring her breasts, is dancing in a harem, one arm over her heard, her feet bare. In the background a musician plays a lyre; another woman serves Moroccan-style tea on an octagonal side-table [...] Keywords: harems, slavers, slavery, nudity, breasts, women, people, dancing, music, dance, oriental, middle eastern, interiors, bare feet, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2019-05-17 + S K L |
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1215x887, 2431x1775, 274x200, 750x548 | H Hendrich: Sea FablesModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV (1901) Seemärchen. Here we see a woman, or perhaps a mermaid, emerging from the sea onto a rock, dripping with water. She is gazing at a sea-monster or dragon some way away, coming through a natural stone ar [...] Keywords: people, women, water, monsters, sea creatures, mythological creatures, dragons, rocks, cities, illustrations for children, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2020-03-01 + S K L |
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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested |
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1301x529, 493x200, 732x298, 976x397 | ClevedonThe British Isles (1905) Many are the pleasant and busy towns and villages which look forth upon [the River Severn at the Bristol channel] in its salted and merged condition and know it not. Of these, Clevedon alone may be in [...] Keywords: views, water, greyscale Places shown: Clevedon; Somerset; England Added: 2006-02-01 + S K L R N |
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1270x853, 298x200, 714x480, 953x640 | York Minster from the WallsThe British Isles (1905) “It is almost impossible for a Yorkshireman to write of York in anything but the language of enthusiasm. To him York is what Rome is to the Roman, Paris to the Parisian, Jerusalem to the Jew. London a [...] Keywords: cities, views, walls, roman remains, churches, cathedrals, abbeys, towers, cityscapes, greyscale Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England Added: 2006-01-03 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1077x815, 1437x1088, 265x200, 808x612 | Chapel of Henry VII., Westminster AbbeyThe British Isles (1905) “Beyond the Confessor’s Chapel, and beyond the imposing Chantry of Henry V., is Henry VII.’s splendid chapel, in the Perlendicular style, with a richly decorated ceiling of fan tracery, and lined with [...] Keywords: cathedrals, churches, interiors, greyscale Places shown: Westminster; London; England Added: 2006-06-03 + S K L R N |
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