Items matching colour, book covers (results page 19)

5. Castle Hedingham, Essex The Growth of the English House (1909)

Section of the Keep.

Keywords: diagrams, castles, architecture, colour

Places shown: Castle Hedingham; Essex; England

Added: 2004-08-19

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Page 5. The scent of the cherry-blossoms Out to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

“The scent of the cherry-blossoms blownAfter us, in the roadway lone” (p. 5)[page 4 is blank]The pencil sketch reproduced here shows a stream or river running past some trees, with some blossom in the [...]

Keywords: sketches, trees, water, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: USA

Added: 2006-01-16

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A Ruby kindles in the vine The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1905)

“IVNow the New Year reviving old Desires,The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,Where the WHITE HAND of MOSES on the BoughPuts out, and Jesus from the ground suspires.VIram indeed is gone with all hi [...]

Keywords: colour, people, trees, spirit

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-26

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The Coronation Chair Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The celebrated stone which now forms the seat of the coronation chair of the sovereigns of England is a flat stone, nearly square. It formerly stood in Argyleshire, according to Buchanan; who also say [...]

Keywords: colour, chairs, royalty, interiors, cathedrals

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2012-11-17

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Museum of Antiquities Antwerpia

Portal of the Castle.Het Steen. – Museum van Oudheden – Poort van den Burcht.Het Steen. – Musée d’Antiquitiés – Porte du Bourg.Het Steen. – Altertumsmuseum – Tor der Burg.Het Steen. – Museum of Antiqu [...]

Keywords: castles, streets, people, cobbles, colour

Places shown: Antwerp; Belgium

Added: 2004-08-01

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2.—Preludium to the book of Urizen First Book of Urizen (1794)

PRELUDIUM TOthe book ofURIZENOf the primeval Priests assum’d power,When Eternals spurn’d back his religion;And gave him a place in the north,Obscure, shadowy, void, solitary.Eternals I hear your call [...]

Keywords: blake, occult, colour, poetry, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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The shore was covered with men ready for battle An Island Story (1920)

Men wearing tarrered rags or perhaps animal skins, and carrying spears and shields, watch from atop white cliffs as Roman galleys near the shore. The time depicted is about the first century C.E., or [...]

Keywords: people, soldiers, bare feet, ships, water, backgrounds, wallpaper, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: England

Added: 2009-05-06

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Cherub delivering a love-letter Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A cherub carries a rose and a love-letter to a seated girl in this romantic engraving; it illustrated a poem, and was originally adecorative initial letter I; in this version I removed the letter and [...]

Keywords: cherubs, people, girls, romance, dresses, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-07

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Page 67. Heaven and Earth. Buch der Natur [Book of Nature] (1481)

Heaven, Earth, and intermediate spheres (or layers) of the skies. The moon looks depressed.

The page has only this illustration, no text.

Keywords: religion, astrology, paintings, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-11

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3.—Chapter I of Blake’s Book of Urizen First Book of Urizen (1794)

Chap: I1. Lo, a shadow of horror is risenIn Eternity! Unknown, unprolific?Self-clos’d, all-repelling: what DemonHath form’d this abominable voidThis soul-shudd’ring vacuum? – Some said“It is Urizen”, [...]

Keywords: blake, occult, people, nudity, bare feet, colour, poetry

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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Portrait of Professer Henry Fawcett, M.P. National Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

Henry Fawcett was a Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party, born in 1833 near Salisbury. He was struck blind in a hunting accident in 1858, and in 1864 was elected Member of Parliament for Brighto [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, faces, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-07-28

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Reading Abbey (Coloured version) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and then coloured (by Liam Quin).

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour, backgrounds, wallpaper

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey (Background 4) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Version of theReading Abbeyengraving stretched slightly to make it fit a computer desktop (background/wallpaper) and also made lighter and with reduced contrast, so it’s less distracting.

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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Reading Abbey, Plate 1 The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Publish’d the 24th of May 1784 by S. Hooper.The abbey was founded in 1121 by King Henry I of England, who was buried here.The abbey was closed at the Reformation, and used as a private home for a time [...]

Keywords: ruins, abbeys, windows, arches, entrances, trees, colour

Places shown: Reading; Berkshire; England

Added: 2004-10-09

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The Harmony of the World Astrology (1806)

The Biblical references at the bottom of this picture as as follows:Genesis 1:14And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be f [...]

Keywords: zodiac, astrology, planets, sun, heaven, stars, angels, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-01-17

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Untitled image, Mediaeval tower La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Untitled image; a man (the protagonist) sits outside a mediæval castle tower. He wears red boots and a long robe, a medieval scholar’s dress perhaps, and in the background a lady spares him a glance. [...]

Keywords: towers, people, scholars, christmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-21

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Floriated initial letter T, coloured version Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I coloured adecorative initial capital letter Tthat was at the start of a chapter.

Keywords: initials, lettert, colour, leaves, gold, yellow, green, colour, floriated initials

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-04-17

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4.—Urizen kneels. First Book of Urizen (1794)

A full-page illustration of a naked man kneeling; Urizen himself, I presume; he crouches naked on one knee, his long white beard reaching down to lie on the ground next to his bare right foot. The ba [...]

Keywords: blake, occult, people, nudity, beards, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-17

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8. The Peak Castle, Derbysire (1176) The Growth of the English House (1909)

“The keep itself, which was built in 1176, is very similar in arrangement to the peel-towers of the Scottish border and to the towers which elsewhere formed the nucleus of many fortified houses. It pr [...]

Keywords: castles, plans, architecture, colour

Places shown: Peveril Castle; Castleton; Derbyshire; England

Added: 2006-01-11

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

A public domain map of the County of Buckinghamshire in England, from 1783.Places marked on the map include the following: The Hundreds: A. Newport; B. Buckingham; C. Cottslow; D. Ashenden; E. Alesbur [...]

Keywords: maps, colour

Places shown: Buckinghamshire; England

Added: 2005-11-04

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