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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

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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

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captions for plates 57 – 64Die 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 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: 2006-03-16

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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: 2006-04-27

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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. 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: 2006-07-28

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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: 2024-11-07

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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: 2019-05-16

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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: 2020-02-29

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Old Advert: 12: Drumnadrochit Hotel at LochnessSouth 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 hotelsSouth 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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CrickladeThe British Isles (1905)

“To all intents and purposes it is at Cricklade that 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 HarcourtThe 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 f [...]

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 WestThe British Isles (1905)

Photo: Wilson, Aberdeen

Keywords: churches, cathedrals, towers, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2006-02-01

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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

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Plan of YorkThe British Isles (1905)

Plan of the city of York, from approx. 1890

Keywords: maps, plans, cities, greyscale

Places shown: York; Yorkshire; England

Added: 2006-01-02

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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: 2006-01-02

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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: 2006-06-02

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Westminster HallThe British Isles (1905)

“Westminster Hall, built [...] by [William] Rufus, and rebuilt by Richard II., is one of the largest chambers in the world, its fine timbered roof unsupported by pillars. Innumerable are its historic [...]

Keywords: halls, interiors, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westminster; London; England

Added: 2006-05-18

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Maps of Birmingham and Environs circa 1900The British Isles (1905)

Birmingham city centre was largely destroyed by heavy bombing in the Second World War, and has both suffered through and benefited from extensive reconstruction since. This map was published in 1905 a [...]

Keywords: maps, diagrams, greyscale

Places shown: Birmingham; Warwickshire; England

Added: 2025-11-02

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