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• The baron's Hall at Christmas., from The People's Gallery of Engravings (1844), added on 7th Dec 2016
  on Dec 7, 2016
  We see the inside of a medieval banquet hall, probably (by the size of the windows) from the 16th Century or modified at that time. it is Christmas, and various people are enjoying the hospitality of their feudal lord.(read more...)...
• Household Treasures., from The People's Gallery of Engravings (1844), added on 4th Dec 2016
  on Dec 3, 2016
  The engraving shows a woman one arm about a girl and the other about an older girl who in turn cuddles a small dog. There’s an ornate couch and a curtain held back with a rope in the background and the sumptuous clothing make clear taht these...
• Ornate blue and gold full-page border, from Book of Hours, Rosenwald MS. 10 (1533), added on 30th Nov 2016
  on Nov 30, 2016
  A sumptuous and ornate medieval hand-drawn full-page frame or cartouch from this early sixteenth-century book of hours. Gem-encrusted golden vases and styilized leaves are on a solid blue background. I have left the background cream-coloured like the...
• Young Romance, from Im Wechsel Der Tage (1885), added on 18th Aug 2016
  on Aug 18, 2016
  A boy has his arm around the waist of a girl in the countryside, the sun close to the horizon. The picture is in a diamond-shaped frame with twigs in the background, budding to show Spring. This cameo illustrated a song, Denkst du daran? or, Do you m...
• Vintage Rustic border of Twigs, from Home Words for Heart and Hearth (1888), added on 4th July 2016
  on Jul 3, 2016
  A Victorian rustic border made of repeating straignt twig segments, crossed at the corners. You could change the aspect ratio, for a different shaped page, by cutting out some of the twig segments, e.g. to make a square twig border. I can do this for...
• Front cover for Home Words, from Home Words for Heart and Hearth (1888), added on 4th July 2016
  on Jul 3, 2016
  The front cover for the collected issues of Home Words for 1888 is blue with gilt decoration and lettering. It bears the text, “The Heart has many a dwelling place But only once a Home.”(read more...)...
• 136.---Roman Soldier., from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 20th May 2016
  on May 20, 2016
  In the 18th and 19th centuries there was a lot of speculation about Hadrian’s Wall, and people thought parts of it must have been the remains of some large city; you can see some of that confusion in the following text, I think. Fig. 136 is an...
• Algiers, from The Tricolor on the Atlas; Algeria and the French Conquest (1855), added on 11th May 2016
  on May 11, 2016
  The view, delicately coloured in pastel blues, pinks and yellow brown, shows in thr foreground a group of people on a beach. Two of the people are riding horses; another walks barefoot; they are perhaps wearing Moorish clothing. There’s a palm...
• 1732.---Clock at Hampton Court., from Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845), added on 29th April 2016
  on Apr 28, 2016
  The clock does not appear to be mentioned in the book apart from this picture. It was installed at Hampton Court Palace in 1540, but the astronomical (or astrological) parts were lost in the early nineteenth century (both the mechanism and the face);...
• Do wake up, you heavy things!, from Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871), added on 18th April 2016
  on Apr 17, 2016
  “What am I to do?” exclaimed Alice, looking about in great perplexity, as first one round head, and then the other, rolled down from her shoulder, and lay like a heavy lump in her lap. “I don’t think it ever happened befor...

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