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Frontispiece: Clerk Colvill Some British Ballads (1919)

The young man clutches his hat with one hand and with the other holds aloft a sword as he kneels at the edge of a pond. From that same pond a mermaid rises up, arms raised, breasts bare.This beautiful [...]

Keywords: people, trees, water, swords, mermaids, colour

Places shown: Slane; County Meath; Ireland

Added: 2006-05-13

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Title Page Some British Ballads (1919)

“Some British BalladsIllustrated by Arthur RackhamDodd Mead & Co.New York.”There is a picture, in the style of a woodcut, of a young man and woman kneeling in front of trees or bushes; the youth is of [...]

Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Clerk Colvill (chapter head) Some British Ballads (1919)

This black-and-white line illustration of a mermaid is above the start of the balladClerk Colvill.

Keywords: mermaids, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Young Bekie Some British Ballads (1919)

The picture shows a young man lying on the floor of a prison cell or castle dungeon [donjon], his hands on his head, and with one ankle chained to the wall. There are a great number of rats or mice i [...]

Keywords: interiors, prisons, animals, people, chains, colour, spooky

Places shown: Paris; Ile-de-France; France

Added: 2006-05-13

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O Waken, Waken, Burd Isbel Some British Ballads (1919)

“O it fell once upon a day    Burd Isbel fell asleep,An’ up it starts the Billy Blind,    An’ stood at her bed-feet.‘O waken, waken, Burd Isbel,    How can you sleep so soun’, Whan this is Bekie’s wed [...]

Keywords: interiors, beds, people, furniture, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-14

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The Gardener Some British Ballads (1919)

A smiling young man with hauntingly blue eyes stands smiling at the gate to his thatched country cottage. A lady with a country-style scarf and dress addresses him.“ The gardener stands in his bower- [...]

Keywords: cottages, colour, people, thatched cottages

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-29

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The Twa Corbies Some British Ballads (1919)

Or,The Two Ravens. Two carrion birds sit discussing what they are going to eat for supper, and one mentions a young man, a knight, lying dead nearby, presumably killed by his lover’s new boyfriend.“A [...]

Keywords: people, knights, trees, birds, death, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-06-13

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Erlinton Some British Ballads (1919)

“Erlinton had a fair daughter; I wat heweird herin a great sin;, For he has built a bigly bower,And a’ to put that lady in.An’ he has warn’d her sisters six, An’ sae has he her brethren se’en,Outher t [...]

Keywords: colour, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-07-04

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Get Up and Bar the Door Some British Ballads (1919)

The house-wife carries a hot pan of stew by the handle, a cat sits on the hearth by, one assumes, the fire, and the husband looks to his wife even as she in turn looks to the door.It fell about the Ma [...]

Keywords: people, interiors, cottages, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-09-22

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