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Decorative clip-art Victorian border, Black and White
The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)
This is a version of thered border from Page 27in black and white (actually grayscale, desaturated and darkened).There are also agreenand abrownversion. To make your own version of this old page borde [...]
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borders, decorative elements, greyscale
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Added: 2008-03-04
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1152x720, 1280x800, 1440x900, 1920x1200, 320x200, 750x469
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Cartouche from Dedication Page
Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)
This woodcut features a scroll-work oval cartouche or frame, with a wide-brimmed hat on top of it. Two cherubs, or wingedputti, one on either side, hold multi-tassled rope. I don’t know the significan [...]
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frames, cartici, borders, cherubs, ornaments, nudity, bare feet, wings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale
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Added: 2013-04-19
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124x200, 1537x2478, 465x750, 769x1239
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Title Page, Cosmography and Astrology
The Gentleman’s Recreation (1686)
The title page to the section ofThe Gentleman’s Recreationis well-known for having the misspellingCosmgrarhyat the top left. What is more interesting about it is the way Cosmography and Astronomy (whi [...]
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title pages, page images, colour, graphic design, trees, diagrams, astrology, people, women, angels, heraldry
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Added: 2020-12-12
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132x200, 1427x2155, 503x760, 714x1078
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Title Page, Craftsman’s Plant Book
Craftsman’s Plant-Book, The (1909)
The Craftsman’s Plant-Book: or, Figures of PlantsSelected fromthe herbals of the sixteenth century, and exhibiting the finest examples of plant-drawing found in those rare works, whether executed in [...]
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title pages, page images, typography, greyscale
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Added: 2021-07-16
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Title Page, Family Book Vol 5
Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)
The title page has at least five different lettering styles, and also includes a vignette, a small illustration, aPaddle steamer on stormy seas.Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung h [...]
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title pages, page images, lettering, vinettes, greyscale
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Added: 2021-02-21
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Title Page Image (detail)
Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance (1896)
A knight in armour [US: armor] rides a horse. He carries a lance, wears a sword, and fights a dragon; presumably this is St. George, patron saint of England. In the background is a castle or tower on [...]
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knights, horses, animals, people, dragons, battles, mythical creatures, armour, greyscale
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Added: 2006-08-08
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Title Page
The Land and the Book (1894)
The Land an the Book; or,Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery ofTHE HOLY LANDBy W. M. Thomson, D.D>,Thirty years missionary in Syria and Palestine.[image] [...]
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title pages, page images, greyscale
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Added: 2021-01-11
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Paddle steamer on stormy seas
Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)
This vignette, with irregular sides, is engraved on thetitle page. It shows a steam-powered paddle-boat that’s also fitted with masts for sails, funnel belching smoke, with a amaller sailing boat in t [...]
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ships, boats, storms, waves, water, lighthouses, greyscale
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Added: 2021-02-21
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139x200, 508x733, 677x977, 903x1303
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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border
The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)
A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils!The original (this version) was black; there are alsobrown and green borderversion, and asidways, or portra [...]
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borders, floral, floriated borders, decoration, floriated borders, greyscale
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Added: 2011-02-17
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1283x1815, 141x200, 642x908
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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.
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portraits, greyscale
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Added: 2010-01-30
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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.
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views, cityscapes, cows, animals, water, rivers, boats, towers, trees, fences, cities, cityscapes, towers, churches, buildings, cathedrals, greyscale
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Chester; Cheshire; England
Added: 2018-08-07
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1100x1203, 1467x1604, 183x200, 619x677, 825x902
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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 [...]
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portraits, musicians, greyscale
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Added: 2010-11-14
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