Items matching title pages, greyscale (results page 129)

JaffaTravels Around the World (1873)

A version of the Jaffa picture cut down so you can use it as a desktop image (wallpaper, as Windows people say).

Keywords: cities, water, boats, backgrounds, wallpaper, cityscapes, greyscale

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2004-03-16

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Charles DickensIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

This full-page illustration accompanied an obituary of Charles Dickens in the edition of the “Illustrated London news” for the 18th June, 1870; Dickens’ death had been reported in the newspaper the pr [...]

Keywords: portraits, dickens, people, beards, writers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-05-26

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A closer crop of a portrait of Sir Charles DickensIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

The portrait is from an obituary of Sir Charles Dickens published the week after he died, in June 1870. This version is cropped so you just have his head, and is an aspect ratio suitable for a desktop [...]

Keywords: portraits, dickens, writers, beards, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-05-27

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Matthew Parker, Archbishop of CanterburyThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

Parker’s deliberation, prudence, learning, and his thorough knowledge of ecclesiastical affairs in general, and particularly of the state of the Church of England from the beginning of the Reformation [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, clerics, moustaches, signatures, hats, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2015-05-17

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Pool of HezekiahTravels Around the World (1873)

The engraving is signed in the bottom left corner Meeder Chubb, which I take to be Philip Meeder and F. Y. Chubb. Tradition links this pool (also called the Pool of Siloam) with the work mentioned in [...]

Keywords: cities, boats, temples, cityscapes, views, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Israel

Added: 2005-03-04

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Title Page, Historical ObservationsThe Holy Court (1663)

This title page occurs maybe three quarters of the way through the book; probably the book was published in separate sections and has been bound into a single volume. I made a separate image for the C [...]

Keywords: title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-11-06

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Gadshill Place, Home of Charles Dickens.Illustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

A photograph of Charles Dickens outside his country home, Gadshill Place (also Gads Hill or Gas’s Hill Place) in Higham, Kent, UK, taken shortly before his death in 1870.

Keywords: dickens, people, houses, buildings, exteriors, writrs, greyscale

Places shown: Higham; Kent; England

Added: 2013-06-05

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Crown from title page at p. 637The Holy Court (1663)

A woodcut of a crown, used as decoration on the title page of Disturbers of the Holy Court.

Keywords: crowns, royalty, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-13

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Out of the WorldIllustrated London News Vol 56 (1870)

“[...] The scene is one which we understand the artist witnessed years ago at the Franciscan monastery at Tivoli. In a whiewashed cell of the monastery a young monk sits playing the harpsichord—one of [...]

Keywords: monks, religion, musical instruments, pianos, music, books, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-31

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Robert Dudley, Earl of LeicesterThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

Robert Dudley is here seen wearing what looks like a Scottish regimental beret; he has a beard and moustache, and wears a ceremonial chain, ruff and (presumably) robe. His learned son, also Sir Robert [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, beards, men, hats, berets, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-04-06

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p. 650, showing page layoutFabrica... (1543)

Fine typography from the 16th century. This image shows use of “historiated initials” as drop caps (available on this Web site as separate images), marginalia, and careful control of the darkness and [...]

Keywords: page images, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-24

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Initial letter “D” from p. 650Fabrica... (1543)

A block initial letter “D” used as a drop cap; This decorative initial features gleeful naked children (putti) sawing through a severed human head on a table!

Keywords: initials, letterd, nudity, children, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-26

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Initial letter “E” from p. 650Fabrica... (1543)

Here a bearded man has his left leg fastened in a wooden box with a large screw to tighten it; somenaked children (putti) are turning the winch.

Keywords: initials, lettere, torture, nudity, children, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-26

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Initial letter “L” from p. 650Fabrica... (1543)

An old man with a beard has been suspended from a wooden frame by a rope around his chest. On the right a putto (perhaps) or a man pulls the rope, and a cowled monk carries a cross.

Keywords: initials, letterl, people, religion, bare feet, beards, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-10

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Initial letter “Q” from p. 650Fabrica... (1543)

A group of naked boys 9cherubs or putti, perhaps) are dissecting an animal, maybe a wolf; inside its stomach they find a lamb.

Keywords: initials, letterq, people, children, medicine, bare feet, nudity, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-10

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Sir Christopher HattonThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

Sir Christopher Hatton is usually represented as the qeen’s lover, and as distinguished through life for his vanity, idleness, dissipation, and hypocrisy, and the best dancer of his age. Perhaps much [...]

Keywords: portraits, men, beards, ruffs, elizabethan costume, courtiers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-17

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Gresham’s Royal ExhangeThe National and Domestic History of England (Vol 2) (1878)

The original building, shown in this engraving, was opened in 1571 but was destroyed in the Fire of London in 1666. In connection with the monetary transactions of the earlier part of the reign, the [...]

Keywords: buildings, architecture, tudor architecture, public buildings, towers, windows, greyscale

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2015-05-15

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Heraldic Crest from the end of RevelationGeneva Bible Scans (1581)

This armorial bearing has three lions en passant and three fleurs-de-lys in quarters. The scrollwork cartouche around it includes a crown and a tudor rose. It was printed at the end of the Book of Rev [...]

Keywords: heraldry, lions, fleurs de lys, crowns, cartici, borders, frames, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-19

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Storming of Antioch.Ridpath’s History of the World (1897)

Drawn by Gustav Doré. The picture illustrates the siege of Antioch by Christian killers in the first Crusade in 1098. The book in front of me has a story about the towers being emptied by virtue of tr [...]

Keywords: battles, castles, nighttime, people, men, ladders, warriors, weapons, greyscale

Places shown: Antioch; Turkey

Added: 2017-10-06

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Collection of alms at the funeral of don Álvaro de LunaModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I (1887)

Almosensammlung bei der beerdigung von don Álvaro de Luna Collection of alms at the funeral of don Álvaro de Luna The picture shows a young man on one knee throwing a coin into a plate next to a bier; [...]

Keywords: death, skulls, funerals, grief, sadness, art, paintings, people, beards, priests, almsgiving, candles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-12-20

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