Items matching colour, book covers (results page 9)

Machines of War and Castle Diagram The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The entire plate.The other images here are all details from this plate, but at much higher resolution.These are all described as weapons used in attacking (or defending) castles. There is also an anno [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, weapons, siege engines, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Ballista (Balista) The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A ballista together with darts for the ballista and a winch for bending the ballista. This is taken fromMachines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Machines of War overview The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This is the bottom half of the diagram shown in theMachines of Warplate. The individual machines are in separate illustrations here.

Keywords: diagrams, weapons, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Moveable Tower with Bridge and Battering Ram. The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This is taken fromMachines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Castle Diagram The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

Diagram showing the various parts of the battlements of a castle. The text, under the headingReferences, lists 1. The Barbican, 2. The Ditch of Moat, 3. Wall of the outer Ballium [now called the oute [...]

Keywords: castles, siege engines, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Catapulta [Catapult] The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The lettered parts are explained in the text of the book. This is taken fromMachines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-03-02

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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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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 birds The 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 Cover Chatterbox Annual (1916)

The front cover of the 1916Chatterboxannual 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 (en [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-12-08

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Snowball Fight! Chatterbox Annual (1916)

This illustration, taken from thefront coverof the 1916Chatterboxannual, 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 version The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol III (1783)

This is a lower-resolution scan of thebookplage.

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 ofWhen He Comes He will Rule over the Whole Worldthat I coloured, after finding a picture of the original painting online at an AmericanAntiques Roadshowpage.

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

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

Keywords: borders, cherubs, flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-03

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Title Page, Ball on Sussex Sussex 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 Shepherd Bible 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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John Carroll D..D., Portrait and Signature My 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 Greuze Cassell’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:AGIRL’Sface where, the budding roseOf youthful beauty blooms and growsBy nat [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, girls, children, faces, poems, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-18

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