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Ruins of Lindisfarne Priory The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

The caption reads, History Preserving the Monuments of Antiquity. The side View of Lindisfarne, or Holy Island Monastery, Northumberland. Pub. 25 May 1781 by S. Hooper The image is signed, S. Spurrow [...]

Keywords: abbeys, castles, windows, arches, ruins, people, clouds, bare feet, nudity, colour

Places shown: Lindisfarne; Northumberland; England

Added: 2003-02-28

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Ornate border from 1878 Title Page (black version) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This is the ornate decorative border from the title page of this book; it features cherubs or putti (naked boys with wings) holding up giant urns or vases; mermaids and mermen; angels, vines, flowers [...]

Keywords: borders, cherubs, nudity, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-01-03

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Shabby-Chic Cartouche! Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

This cartouche or frame is supported by two winged cherubs or putti, each holding rope with many tassels that connects to a broad-brimmed hat surmounting the frame. There is also a small cross. You ca [...]

Keywords: ornaments, frames, cartici, borders, cherubs, bare feet, nudity, wings, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-18

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Cartouche from Dedication Page Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

This woodcut features a scroll-work oval cartouche or frame, with a wide-brimmed hat on top of it. Two cherubs, or winged putti, one on either side, hold multi-tassled rope. I don’t know the significa [...]

Keywords: frames, cartici, borders, cherubs, ornaments, nudity, bare feet, wings, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-19

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Cherub (cutout) Eccles. Liber, In Quo Omnia ... (1564)

A cherub or “putto” isolated from his background.

See also the cherub in context.

Keywords: cherubs, nudity, boys, bare feet, ornaments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-21

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Frontispiece: When He Comes He will Rule over the Whole World The Lost Boy (1913)

“At last, [Hillel] said: “It is better to hope and to wait patiently for Him than to reckon the day of His coming. For if the reckoning is wrong, and He does not come, then men despair, and no longer [...]

Keywords: religion, people, children, bare feet, people, beards, scholars, interiors, greyscale

Places shown: Jerusalem; Palestine

Added: 2007-05-16

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Title Page Detail: Angel With Whip Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart par Louis Desnoyers: L’Episode de Panouille (1843)

This vignette, or little scene, is on the title page. A winged angel stands amidst two groups of little children. One group, clad in white, have wreaths of flowers round their heads and are praying. [...]

Keywords: children, boys, angels, people, whips, punishments, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-07

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The Invocation. Emblems Divine and Moral (1866)

The illustration for “The Invocation” at the start of the first book shows a person lying on the ground resting against a tree, barefoot, with a lute on the ground nearby, and an heraldic shield hung [...]

Keywords: poetry, emblems, people, bare feet, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-16

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Decorative initial letter O with cherbus cooking soup Fabrica... (1543)

A Decorative initial letter “O” used as a drop cap on the first page of this famous book. THe outer border around the outside of the letter “O” has oak leaves and dragons; inside the “O” we see naked [...]

Keywords: lettero, initials, children, nudity, bare feet, dragons, borders, mythical creatures, cooking, food, greyscale

Places shown: unspecified

Added: 2010-01-19

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1.—Martyrs suspended by one or both feet, by the arms with heavy weights attached to the feet; crucified; Christian women hung up by the hair Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs (1903)

A. Martyrs suspended by one foot. B. Suspended by both feet. C. Raised on the cross head uppermost. D. Nailed to the cross, head downwards. E. Hung up by both arms, heavy weights being attached to the [...]

Keywords: death, torture, nudity, people, punishments, religion, feet, bare feet, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-26

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Perseus und Andromeda. Sagen des Klassischen Altertums (1882)

A damsel in distress if ever the was one! The woman (Andromeda) is chained at wrist and ankle to a rock in the sea, and a viscious sea-monster is about to swaller her up. But look! The helmeted and sa [...]

Keywords: dragons, monsters, chains, bare feet, gods, heroes, swords, water, waves, mythology, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-06-14

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17.—Sarum Plain Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

In the foreground a barefoot shepherd with crook and straw hat, probably a boy, accompanied by his sheep, who graze on grassy burial mounds perhaps of ancient kings. In the far background, over Salisb [...]

Keywords: bare feet, people, sheep, stonehenge, megaliths, druids, ruins, views, burial mounds, greyscale

Places shown: Salisubury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-03-26

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