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Vintage gold circular leaf border or frame
The Circling Year (1870)
Today people looking at this circular wreath design stamped in gold would think first of Christmas: there’s holly and ivy and what could pass for ornaments. But if you look more closely it represents [...]
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borders, circular, gold, winter, seasons, christmas, xmas, frames, cartici, ornaments, frames, holly, ivy, mistletoe, leaves, foliate borders, colour
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none
Added: 2018-01-20
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Frontispiece: The Snow Sweepers (1865)
The Circling Year (1870)
A man in boots and tall hat, scarf, jacket and rolled-up trousers, stands on the steps of a grand front porch with stone columns while two faces peer out of a window in this city scene. A boy on the s [...]
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winter, street scenes, snow, people, cities, pillars, children, boys, men, snow shovels, victorian costume, top hats, colour
Places shown:
London
London; England
Added: 2018-01-20
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Title page for Circling the Year
The Circling Year (1870)
The title page for ‘Circling the Year”for 1870 has a leafy border framing two large flowers at the top, and representations of the year beneath: spring with flowers; summer with warmth from a starry s [...]
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title pages, page images, borders, spring, summer, autumn, winter, greyscale
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none
Added: 2018-02-18
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Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sized
The Circling Year (1870)
This leafy border features ivy with some holly thwoen in for good measure: it’d be great at Christmas but could be used at other times too. It surrounds thetitlepageof the book.This version is proport [...]
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borders, xmas, christmas, foliated borders, vinles, leaves, full page, surrounds, frames, greyscale
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none
Added: 2018-02-20
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By the Sea
The Circling Year (1870)
A Victorian sea-side outing, with children palying on the beach, a nanny or mother standing by them holding a boook, and, in the backgorund, a man, perhaps their father, with a top hat and cane. The c [...]
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people, children, victorian costumes, seaside, beaches, sand castles, liesure, playing, holidays, vacations, women, men, dresses, hats, ocean, sea, water, sand, poems, poetry, greyscale
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none
Added: 2019-04-06
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A Hole in the Sack
The Circling Year (1870)
A horse has been fitted with a nosebag so it can eat, but the nosebag has a hole in it, and is leaking grain onto the ground. A goat, two chickens and some sparrows are enjoying the grains that tumble [...]
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horses, animals, goats, chickens, sparrows, birds, grain, nosebags, colour
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unspecified
Added: 2022-01-22
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The Village Blacksmith
The Circling Year (1870)
The blacksmith stands wearing his boiler suit; he has a hammer in one upraised hand ready to strike hot metal on his anvil; perhaps he is making a horseshoe or maybe it’s a manacle for a slave. In the [...]
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blacksmiths, work, people, men, waiting, village life, vintage, colour, work, toil, labour, fire, fires, anvils, hammers, rural scenes
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none
Added: 2018-02-03
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Stoke Pogis Churchyard
The Circling Year (1870)
The churchyard at Stoke Pogis (today written Stoke Poges) was the setting for Thomas Grey’s famousElegy.The book uses the illustration to accompany the following poem, which is by the Rev. William Bou [...]
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spooky, graveyards, cemetaries, graves, churches, moonlight, spires, towers, trees, forest, nighttime, rural, buildings, poetry, poems, colour
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Stoke Poges; Buckinghamshire; England
Added: 2019-02-28
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For the stranger, the fatherless, the widow
The Circling Year (1870)
This full-page illustration is enclosed in a green and gold border with gold stalks of wheat around an engraving of a woman in old-fashioned clothing harvesting wheat. Underneath the engraving in blac [...]
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harvest, gleaning, people, women, wheat, borders, biblical texts, colour
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none
Added: 2018-06-04
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On the Serpentine
The Circling Year (1870)
A night-time Winter scene in Victorian London: it’s the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, and it’s frozen over with ice. People are skatin, carrying burning torches to light their way; in the foreground a [...]
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christmas, xmas, ice, winter, holidays, skating, bridges, crowds, torchlight, roast chestnuts, people, trees, lakes, rivers, colour
Places shown:
Hyde Park; London; England
Added: 2018-06-09
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The Christmas Wagon
The Circling Year (1870)
A covered wagon, drawn by four pairs of horses, crosses a snow-covered stone bridge over a river in this chromolithograph. I’m not sure whether the wagon brings gifts or relatives or is coming to take [...]
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christmas, xmas, chromolithographs, colour, horses, wagons, carts, bridges, snow, winter, rivers, water, trees, people, cold, travel
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unspecified
Added: 2018-02-21
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Winter Games
The Circling Year (1870)
A group of children are playing, i think on an icy pond; two of them have just fallen over. They are dressed in Victorian middle-class clothing, with caps and coats and striped trousers and boots or s [...]
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winter, children, playing, games, xmas, villages, rural scenes, genre painting, greyscale
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none
Added: 2020-04-17
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