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Front Cover, El Mundo Ilustrado El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

This magazine was originally sold in fortnightly issues, with 26 of them (I think) bound into one volume; the copy I have lost its covers before I bought it (which is why I could afford it!) so what y [...]

Keywords: ruins, title pages, book covers, page images, greyscale

Places shown: Borghetto sul Mincio; Valeggio sul Mincio; Verona; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2018-08-22

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Tales of Perrault: Little Thumb El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

Little Thumb got up very early and went to the edge of a stream; he filled his pockets with little white pebbles.This is from the fairy tale of Little Thumb, written by Charles Perrault and published [...]

Keywords: forests, rivers, streams, boys, nighttime, dark, woods, illustrations for children, fairy tales, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2021-06-14

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A Boy El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

A smiling boy, wearing somewhat tarrered clothing and barefoot, stands holding perhaps turnips in one hand and with the other a sack over his shoulder. The clothes look warm enough for early Autumn, a [...]

Keywords: boys, people, bare feet, urchins, vegetables, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-09-02

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September El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

This full-page illustration shows, in the middle but at some distance, two women picking grapes, surrounded by a circular grapevine and a large Grecian urn. Above them are birds on the wing. In the fo [...]

Keywords: september, months, people, boys, girld, men, women, bare feet, grapes, fruit, harvest, eating, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-22

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Hop-o-My-Thumb: The miniature children arrived at the house El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

Cuentos de Perrault.—caga-chitas: Llegaron á una casa de donde la luz salia, Hamaron á la puerta, y una buena mujer que vino á abrirles...That is, “Tales of Perrault—Tom Thumb: They arrived at a house [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, fear, horror, scary, woods, spooky, steps, buildings, houses, forests, tom thumb, litle people, perrault, night-time, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-01

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Little people at the door—wallpaper El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

This is a detail fromlittle people at the door to the house in the forest, showing the children at an old stone house in a clearing in a scary ancient forest.

Keywords: wallpapers, backgrounds, illustrations for children, fear, scary, spooky, forests, little people, littles, perrault, night-time, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-09-01

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Basilica St. Anthony, Padua El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

The early fourteenth-century cathedral of Saint Anthony in Padua, drawn I think form the South-East.

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, churches, buildinfs, exteriors, rivers, trees, towers, domes, minarets, greyscale

Places shown: Padua; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2021-06-06

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Quinta Giustiniani en Pádua El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

The caption,Quinta Giustiniani en Pádua, meansGiustiniani farmhouse in Padua; the Giustiniani family were originally in Venice; Padua is some forty kilometres (25 miles) from Venice.The picture appear [...]

Keywords: baroque architecture, gothic, spooky, people, arches, overgrown, grand, ornate, vines, trees, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Padua; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2018-09-20

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Fraile mendicante, en Venecia. El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

A mendicant friar begging on the streets of Venice. The illustration accompanies an article about Venice. In it, we see a long narrow street, less than six feet wide, paved with flagstones. The buildi [...]

Keywords: street scenes, people, transactions, commerce, buying, paying, men, women, alleyways, priests, religion, christianity, mendicant priests, costumes, cities, greyscale

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2018-09-18

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Venus and Cupid El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

In the book this engraving is captionedCaprichos de Cupido, but the original oil painting was in an auction catalogue entitled Venus and Cupid.Here, Cupid, shown as a naked curly-haird boy with wings, [...]

Keywords: romance, cupid, cupids, boys, people, women, nudity, venus, bare feet, outdoors, trees, love, kisses, wings, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-01-17

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