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Tailpiece ornament: flower My Boy Life (1882)

This woodcut of a flower on a stem with a leaf was used as an end-of-chapter ornament, or tailpiece, in the second book bound in this one volume; the book is called “Ben Owen: A Lancashire Story.”

Keywords: tailpieces, ornaments, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-09-26

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Little Billing, Northamptonshire. Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural Period: Norman]LITTLE BILLING.This jar-like and singular Font may be placed early in the Norman period; both irregular in shape and rude in workmanship, it is chiefly interesting for it [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, inscriptions, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Little Billing; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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Chalk, Kent Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

This pleasing specimen of a plain Norman Font is cut in Purbeck Marble, but now white-washed. It is 2ft. 5½in. high; 1ft. 6½in. across the top; the bowl is 12in. deep, lined with lead, and with a wa [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Chalk; Kent; England

Added: 2013-01-23

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Strubby, Lincolnshire Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural period: Decorated]STRUBBY.The design of the bowl of this Font was not unfrequent in the fourteenth century; it is octagonal, and every side is enriched with Decorated tracery, differing [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: Strubby; Lincolnshire; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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King’s Cliff, Northamptonshire Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts (1844)

[Architectural Period: Early English]KING’S CLIFFIs a strong and massive Early English Font. The bowl is cupshaped, and supported on an octagonal shaft of nearly equal dimensions. It is ornamented w [...]

Keywords: baptismal fonts, church architecture, greyscale, fonts

Places shown: King’s Cliff; Northamptonshire; England

Added: 2008-07-24

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Gawdey of Norfolk: The silver tortoise The Grammar of Heraldry (1718)

An heraldic emblazon (a shield) showing an old woodcut of a tortoise.

Keywords: heraldry, animals, tortoises, shields, reptiles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2017-02-09

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Haynes School Charter from 1850 Ephemera 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

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Heraldic Crest and Symbols of Art Il 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

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Victorian antique style decorative alphabet from Stuttgart Various 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.The [...]

Keywords: alphabets, complete alphabets, decorative initials, initial letters, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-07-28

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captions for plates 57 – 64 Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

The captions are in German, and I cannot understand them. If you want to send them to me (UTF-8 please!) I’ll put the transcriptions up on the pages for the corresponding plates.

Keywords: captions, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-03-10

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Queen Bohemia swallowed up alive Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)

The chapter heading isChap IV. The Wicked Lives, and Woful Deaths of several Popes, and likewise of Apostates, and Desperate Persecutors, but the running heads on each page sayThe woful Deaths of Wick [...]

Keywords: punishments, religion, people, royalty, death, woodcuts, justice, animals, dogs, carriages, city walls, bone, greyscale

Places shown: Prague; Bohemia

Added: 2006-03-16

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A Blasphemer turned into a black dog Wonderful 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: 2006-04-27

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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. AtOster, a Village inGermany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, both [...]

Keywords: religion, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Oster; Mosel; Germany

Added: 2006-07-28

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G. Tornai: At the harem Moderne 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: 2019-05-16

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H Hendrich: Sea Fables Moderne 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 arc [...]

Keywords: people, women, water, monsters, sea creatures, mythological creatures, dragons, rocks, cities, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-02-29

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Old Advert: 12: Drumnadrochit Hotel at Lochness South Wales and the Wye District of Monmouthshire (1892)

The back of the guide book has a section of “additional advertisements” for railways and hotels in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland. This one takes up the whole of page 12 of that supplement an [...]

Keywords: advertisements, page images, greyscale

Places shown: Drumnadrochit; Inverness-shire; Scotland

Added: 2006-02-15

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Old Advert: 13: National & Station Hotel; Glenalbyn Hotel; Melrose hotels South Wales and the Wye District of Monmouthshire (1892)

The back of the guide book has a section of “additional advertisements” for railways and hotels in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Page 13 of that supplement is headed “Scotland” and has thre [...]

Keywords: advertisements, page images, greyscale

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2006-03-05

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Cricklade The British Isles (1905)

“To all intents and purposes it is atCrickladethat the Thames comes into existence, and to ninety-nine Thams enthusiasts out of a hundred Cricklade itself is a mere name.” (p. 118)

Keywords: rivers, trees, water, greyscale

Places shown: Cricklade; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2006-07-05

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Stocks at Stanton Harcourt The British Isles (1905)

“Stanton Harcourt still preserves the stocks in which petty offenders were held in ludicrous durance. (p. 120)”People were forced to sit with their ankles locked into the wooden holes so that their fe [...]

Keywords: punishments, stocks, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Stanton Harcourt; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2005-12-31

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York Minster, From the South West The British Isles (1905)

Photo: Wilson, Aberdeen

Keywords: churches, cathedrals, towers, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2006-02-01

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