Items matching people, greyscale (results page 4)

Frontispiece: The Right Hon. Lord Penzance. National Portrait Gallery, The (1888)

A colour portrait of Mr. James Plaisted Wilde, the fourth son of Edward Archer Wilde, Esq., born in 1816. He became Judge of the Court of Probate and Judge Ordinary of the Divorce Court in 1863; he wa [...]

Keywords: portraits, colour, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-07-28

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Frontispiece: Edward VII Taking the Oath Royal Children of English History (1904)

Edward (not yet King Edward) strikes a kingly pose with one hand on his hip, wearing attractive purple, with an ermine robe and a gold chain, as he prepares to try on the crown, which he thinks is ver [...]

Keywords: kings, people, beards, royalty, colour, robes, costumes, crowns

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-08

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Frontispiece - Portrait of Goethe with his signature Goethe’s Works [Goethes Werke] (1882)

A portrait of the writer (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe).

Note: German copyright today is 90 years after death, but in 1882 it was shorter, and I do not know if this image is out of copyright.

Keywords: portraits, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-30

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Title Page for “Old English Country Cottages” Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Old English Country Cottages

Edited by Charles Holme

Offices of ‘The Studio,’ London, paris and new York, MCMVI

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-13

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Title Page Mediæval Styles of the English Parish Church (1936)

THE MEDIÆVAL STYLESOF THE ENGLISHPARISH CHURCHA Survey of their Development, Designand FeaturesbyF. E. HOWARDJoint Author of “English Church Woodworkduring the Mediæval Period.”Illustrated from Photog [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-08-10

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Chester, from the Alford Road. The River Dee: Its Aspect and History (1875)

Probably this view was drawn from the road between Chester and Aldford, as it’s written today, at the bank of the River Dee.

Keywords: views, cityscapes, cows, animals, water, rivers, boats, towers, trees, fences, cities, cityscapes, towers, churches, buildings, cathedrals, greyscale

Places shown: Chester; Cheshire; England

Added: 2018-08-07

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Frontispiece: Charles the King walked for the last time through the streets of London An Island Story (1920)

King Charles is followed by a priest, and surrounded by soldiers with lances. He wears 17th-century costume.[King Charles I] had been foolish, he had been wicked, but now, in the face of death, he be [...]

Keywords: royalty, soldiers, people, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2009-05-05

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Front Cover detail: jester reading a book Bill Nye’s History of England (1900)

A man in a red jester’s mediaeval outfit reads a book. At first I thought he was a gnome or pixie, but in fact a jester is more appropriate for the cover of this humorous book!

Keywords: people, costumes, books, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-10

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Frontispiece: Daniel François Esprit Auber Famous Composers and their Music (1901)

From an engraving by G. Deblois, 1867.Auber was a French composer from Paris, born in 1782 and died in May 1871. He wrote a series of comic oeras with Scribe and Auber, including “Leicester” (based on [...]

Keywords: portraits, musicians, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-11-14

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Title Page The Leisure Hour (1904)

The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated MagazineforHome Reading.Volume: 1904 – 5. 4 Bouverie St., London E.C.Atists in this volume:Barraud, AllanCopping, HaroldDunlop, M. P.Forestire, A.Finnemore,R.I., J.Fu [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Frontispiece: United States Capitol, Washington Elements of Geography, Ancient and Modern (1825)

Engraving (probably a woodcut) of the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. The building was burned down in the War of 1812 by the British (from Canada), and this engraving was made before the new c [...]

Keywords: buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Washington; DC; USA

Added: 2009-01-25

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Frontispiece 1: A Titan of the polar sea lazily drifting with the current Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic (1912)

A photograph of an iceberg; it is not, I think, the one that sunk the Titanic; there is a photograph of that iceberg elsewhere in the book.

Keywords: icebergs, water, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-24

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Vintage border with peacock-feather styilized flowers The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

This full-page Victorian engraved border features flowers that are drawn with lines to shade them and with tendrils that give an effect reminding me of the “eyes” in a peacock’s tail feathers.I also m [...]

Keywords: borders, victoriana, flowers, floriated borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-05-28

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The grand Door of Barfreston Church in Kent. The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

On some of these arches is commonly over the key-stone represented God the Father, or our Saviour surrounded with angels; and below a melange of foliage, animals, often ludicrous, and sometimes even i [...]

Keywords: entrances, norman architecture, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Barfreston; Kent; England

Added: 2008-04-23

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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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Ornament: Cornucopia The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This antique typographic ornament was used as a chapter tail-piece at the end of a section of the preface. You could also use it as a decorative page element. This was scanned from a 1780s book, and i [...]

Keywords: ornaments, cornucopias, fruit, harvest, horns, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-25

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

Published by S. Hooper April 16, 1784; the illustration is signedGoodnight Sculpt.This is an overview: I have scanned the individual parts of this image separately and will add them along with the des [...]

Keywords: druids, megaliths, temples, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-03-21

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No. 1 from the Druidical Antiquities The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

The caption for this engraving of an obelisk just says Nº1.

This is one item from a full-page plate,Druidical Antiquities

Keywords: ruins, druids, megaliths, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-05

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Carne or Carnedd, from the Druidical Antiquities plate The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

A cairn is a pile of stones or rocks used to mark a place, perhaps a burial.

This is one item from a full-page plate,Druidical Antiquities

Keywords: druids, ruins, megaliths, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-05

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Kist-vain, from the Druidical Antiquities plate The Antiquities of England and Wales Vol I (1783)

This is an engraving of akist-tomb.

Kistis an old name for chest or coffin, andvainused also to mean empty or pointless, as,in vain.

This is one item from a full-page plate,Druidical Antiquities

Keywords: ruins, druids, megaliths, tombs, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-08-05

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