Items taken from La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878) (results page 1)

Title Page, La France Ilustrée La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

The words La France appear in very large writing on this page, the F and E perhaps 5 inches / 12.5cm tall, in bold uneaven script that says 1880s France; beneath that ILUSTRÉE is in sans-serif type, [...]

Keywords: title pages, page images, rustic borders, borders, lettering, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-10-31

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Saint Bonaventura as a Monk La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

An engraving of Saint Bonaventura standing in a Franciscan monk’s robe or cowl, hood back to reveal his tonsured head, staring up at birds, children singing, and rays of light suggesting a higher supe [...]

Keywords: saints, people, monks, robes, tonsures, borders, rustic borders, birds, twigs, christianity, religion, crosses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-25

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Vignette: crucifix with skull and prayer book or bible La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A tall crucifix (a cross bearing a man being tortured to death) stands on a desk or table; it emanates light, dhining on a book propped open behind it, and on a skull. The skull may represent the mira [...]

Keywords: saints, christianity, death, skulls, books, religion, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2023-01-24

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Le Tunnel du Saint-Gotthard.—Machine à perforer, mue par l’air comprimé La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A man stands facing left, apparently calm, wearing overcoat and wide-brimmed hat, in an underground tunnel; behind him is a large metal cylindrical tank, horizontal, fitted with railway wheels; to th [...]

Keywords: machinery, steampunk, railways, people, wheels, men, engines, tunnels, excavation, digging, hats, greyscale

Places shown: Gotthard Tunnel; Broager; Uri; Switzerland

Added: 2020-10-31

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Monseigneur Dabart, bishop of Périgueux and of Sarlat. La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A portrait of Nicolas-Joseph Dabert, who was bishop of Périgueux in Dordogne in France from 1863 to 1901. He wrote a number of books, of which a history of Saint Tomas of Villeneuve seems to have bee [...]

Keywords: priests, portraits, men, people, bishops, frames, borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-07-10

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Full-page portrait border with nameplate space La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

This full-page rectangular border is designed like a picture frame, with flowers surmounting an inset oval frame or cartouche, and with a nameplate appearing to hang by a ribbon beneath the oval.Origi [...]

Keywords: borders, frames, rectangular, oval, full-page borders, cartici, flowers, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-07-10

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Trop tard! La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

A young man, barefoot and dressed in rags, is half-kneeling, his head in his hands, at a bench in front of an enclosed bed, on which sleeps, or perhaps is dead, an old man. A priest holding a book [...]

Keywords: death, people, bare feet, poverty, priests, men, interiors, beds, furniture, grief, greyscale

Places shown: none

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Monseigneur Roche, Bishop of Gap La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

Here we have a portrait of a prelate, a French bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Gap; he lived from 1828 to 1880 and was made a bishop in 1879.

The portrait is in a fabulous engraved oval frame.

Keywords: portraits, frames, men, bishops, prelates, borders, oval, ovals, cartouches, cartici, greyscale

Places shown: none

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Saint Elizabeth of Hungary La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

St.Elizabeth of Hungary (1207 – 1231) is a patron saint of bakers, beggars, brides, charities and of the death of children. She was a princess and at the age of sixteen was taught by Franciscan friar [...]

Keywords: saints, people, women, roses, miracles, christianity, religion, men, forests, borders, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2020-10-31

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Rustic full-page border of twigs with roses, divided into several areas La France Illustrée: Journal Literaire, Scientifique & Religieux (1878)

This full-page border or frame of wooden branches or twigs is divided into six main areas of varying shapes. Although the border is roughly symmetrical there are two roses at the top.This might be fab [...]

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, rustic borders, twigs, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2022-07-06

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