Items matching colour, trees (results page 18)

Abstract border and front cover designLa Civilizacion (1881)

This is the pattern and design from the front cover. There are two main areas for text, there’s swirly barbed wire, there’s a Grecian urn, what more could you want? Well, OK, I can also provide the va [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, templates, victoriana, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-05-21

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Sheldons, Wiltshire [Frontispiece].The Growth of the English House (1909)

“Sheldons Manor in Wiltshire is a charming example of alteration. The original house, of which the porch is a part, was built by the Gascelyns in the fourteenth century. The sixteenth-century addition [...]

Keywords: manors, entrances, trees, gates, colour

Places shown: Sheldons; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2004-04-02

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Rosa LutescensChristian Parlor Magazine Vol III (1847)

Rosa Lutescens is also known as Rosa hispida. The blooms are white with a faint tinge of yellow, so it might be that the colouring is a little too strong here. In english, it’s a sort of rose. The te [...]

Keywords: flowers, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-06-01

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half-titleOratio Dominica: The Lord’s Prayer in above 100 Languages, Versions and Characters (1713)

Keywords: page images, alphabets, typography, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2000-09-18

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The Title Page and FrontispieceWonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

Keywords: page images, title pages, colour

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2002-10-01

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The Day DreamDays With the Victorian Poets (1910)

The Day-Dream. – Ionides Collection South Kensington. From a painting by Rossetti. Within the branching shade of Reverie Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be     Like woman’s budding day-dr [...]

Keywords: people, romance, poetry, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-25

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Plate 1: Book I, Chapter 2Die Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes (1884)

Figs. 1 – 13: Plans of various Roman buildings, including the Pantheon in Rome and the Baths of Caracalla.

Also a cross-section of the Palace of Augustus in Rome.

Keywords: architecture, diagrams, roman architecture, plans, temples, palaces, towers, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-03-02

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Hollingbourne, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A half-timbered cottage in Kent. The steep tiled roof was probably once thatched. From a water-colour drawing by Mrs. Allingham, R.W.S. The image is also marked “by permission of Mrs. Lionel Beddingt [...]

Keywords: cottages, flowers, moss, rooves, gardens, houses, colour, people, birds, colour, christmas

Places shown: Hollingbourne; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him.Works of Jane Austen (1906)

Mrs. John Dashwood did not at all approve of what her husband intended to do for his sisters. To take three thousand pounds from the fortune of their dear little boy would be impoverishing him to the [...]

Keywords: people, children, interiors, fireplaces, jane austen, dogs, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-23

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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: 2009-11-19

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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: 2007-05-26

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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: 2007-05-26

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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: 2007-05-26

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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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15.—Group of Arch-Druid and DruidsOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A group of bearded older men wearing robes sit in disputation or discussion. They are in a forest.

Keywords: people, beards, monks, robes, druids, trees, astrology, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-02-14

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Gymnastics for YouthHone’s Everyday Book (1826)

Children play on swings and on a climbing frame in a park.

Keywords: children, trees, swings, parks, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-07-28

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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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