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Xerxes Mandando Azotar El Mar.
La Civilizacion (1881)
KingXerxesof Persia is shown here just after a storm destroyed the beginnings of a bridge he’d ordered to be built in order to send his army to conquor Greece. The following extract is from a translat [...]
Keywords:
people, kings, xerxes, beards, men, soldiers, waves, water, rocks, colour, ancient persia, ancient greece, wars, illustrations for children
Places shown:
Hellespont; Dardanelles; Turkey
Added: 2018-11-05
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Greek family returning from the harvest.
La Civilizacion (1881)
Família Griega volviendo de la vendimiaHere we see two adults and a child, all barefoot and the child bare-shuldered and bare-legged. The woman in front carries leaves; the child plays twin pipes; a y [...]
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people, children, animals, oxen, men, women, costumes, ancient greece, bare feet, trees, forests, water, streams, rocks, colour
Places shown:
Greece
Added: 2019-02-23
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Greek dances after a meal.
La Civilizacion (1881)
Canzas Griegas despues de la Comida.Here we see a laurel-wreathed man seated on a chair, next to a table with horses’ legs; behind him someone is standing clapping. In the background three barefoot wo [...]
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dancing, dancers, people, women, costumes, ancient greece, men, wreaths, interiors, colour
Places shown:
Greece
Added: 2019-02-01
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Typographic ornament with horse’s head and harp strings
La Civilizacion (1881)
This tailpiece, or typographic ornament, was used at the end of a chapter. It includes a horse’s head perhaps in a stylized horseshoe, with an anvil or yoke behind it, a harp and other musical instrum [...]
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ornaments, tailpieces, horses, animals, symbols, anvils, yokes, harps, musical instruments, ivy, mistletoe, decorations, ribbons, christmas, xmas, greyscale
Places shown:
none
Added: 2018-11-05
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Roman slaves carrying an amphora
La Civilizacion (1881)
Two men are walking, about to go up the steps and out of a cellar, one in front of the other; they have a wooden post over their shoulders from which a large amphora is suspended, reaching almost to t [...]
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amphoras, slaves, people, men, bare feet, costumes, work, cellars, steps, entrances, arches, ancient rome, carrying, slavery, basements, greyscale
Places shown:
none
Added: 2019-02-24
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