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Cartouche or frame from title page of Concordance Geneva Bible Scans (1581)

This is the frame around the device (or trade-mark) of the printer Christopher Barker that was on the 1581 title-page of the Geneva Bible. It features trees and scroll-work and an oval central space. [...]

Keywords: cartici, frames, borders, colour

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Added: 2012-06-18

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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

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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

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Added: 2013-04-19

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Clip-art: Victorian Floriated Border in Green and Brown The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, floral, floriated borders, decoration

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Clip-art: Victorian Floral Border, Landscape Version The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times (1860)

A swirly Victorian border around each page in the section about the plates; lots of tendrils! This is the original portrait version but coloured, with the leaves and flowers in green and the stems in [...]

Keywords: colour, borders, frames, floral, floriated borders, decoration

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Added: 2011-02-17

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Border of Roses and Thorns Days With the Victorian Poets (1910)

A decorative oval border or roses and thorns that was around a chapter title in this book.

Keywords: borders, frames, romance, greyscale

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Added: 2012-06-23

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Christofel Cololus [Christopher Columbus] The New World (1671)

Christopher Columbus, of Christofer, or Christofel Colonus as written here, was responsible for bringing many diseases to Turtle Island, including Catholicism and rampant individualism, corporate gree [...]

Keywords: people, portraits, beards, cartici, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2013-01-21

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116.—Roman Victory. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Succeeding emperors left the Britons in the quiet advancement of their civilization, until Claudius (Fig. 118) was stirred up to the hazard of an invasion. In the sonorous prose of Milton—“He, who wai [...]

Keywords: symbols, art, writing, statuary, roman remains, shields, cartici, borders, frames, greyscale

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Added: 2012-09-12

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter A by Valerio Spada Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “A” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: a person with a walking-stick or cane, and wearing hat and coat, sits under a tree; another person [...]

Keywords: lettera, letters, people, bucolic scenes, frames, colour

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Added: 2011-03-22

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter B by Valerio Spada Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “B” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: A couple sit together in the foreground, holding hands; in the backgrouns smoke rises from a buildi [...]

Keywords: letterb, initials, people, romance, frames, borders, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-22

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter C by Valerio Spada Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “C” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: a man stands with a falcon on one arm, and a dog at his feet; he talks to a man on a horse. No doub [...]

Keywords: letterc, letters, frames, borders, people, bucolic scenes, hunting, riding, horses, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-22

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Decorated (Historiated) initial letter D by Valerio Spada Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque (1989)

Initial letter “D” from a historiated alphabet by Valerio Spada. Seventeeth century Italian people: a man wearing a Dutch hat and boots steps through the letter D carrying a basket. In the backgroun [...]

Keywords: letterd, letters, frames, borders, people, bucolic scenes, greyscale

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Added: 2011-03-22

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