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Knight and Hermit The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

A knight in armour carrying a shield is on foot, leading his horse. He stands by a tree in front of a church or monastery door. A bearded monk beckons him in, pointing towards the open door. In a nic [...]

Keywords: castles, trees, hills, towers, knights, animals, horses, monks, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

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Added: 2004-02-20

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Religious Orders The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

A note on page 90 reads: The names of the orders delineated in the annexed plate, follow in the same succession in which the figures stand; beginning with the nun on the left, and reckoning towards th [...]

Keywords: monks, cathedrals, churches, interiors, colour

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Added: 2004-02-20

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Frontispiece: Jester and Monk The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A woman in a red jester’s outfit, including a jester’s hat with bells, and a black-robed monk wearing sandals, and with a black hood, hold hands as if preparing to dance.

Keywords: people, jesters, monks, sketches, colour

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Added: 2007-05-25

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15.—Group of Arch-Druid and Druids Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A group of bearded older men wearing robes sit in disputation or discussion. They are in a forest.

Keywords: people, beards, monks, robes, druids, trees, astrology, greyscale

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Added: 2005-02-13

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29.—Arch-Druid in his full Judicial Costume. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A fanciful drawing of an Arch-Druid (archdruid) in his full costume, judicial presumably meaning that he is ready to judge over people. An old and stern-looking man with a long flowing beard wears a r [...]

Keywords: people, beards, bare feet, monks, robes, druids, spooky, christmas, greyscale

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Added: 2005-08-29

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Sonnet Introduction Border La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The border and decoration from page 103. An angel, wearing a toga, but with bare feet and bare-legged, beckons to the writer, depicted as a monk with a robe and medieval pointed shoes. I included fai [...]

Keywords: monks, angels, robes, borders, colour

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Added: 2005-11-13

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Myself when young The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1905)

XXVII Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. A white-bearded sage teaches two boys t [...]

Keywords: people, children, bare feet, beards, colour, monks

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Added: 2005-08-26

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Geoffrey Chaucer Historic Byways and Highways of Old England (1900)

This image is from the chapter “Chaucer and the Mediæval Inn.’ and bears the additional caption “From the Harleian MS. 4866, fol. 91.” The portrait of Chaucer, which the affection of his disciple, Tho [...]

Keywords: people, beards, monks, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-17

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1028.—Franciscan, or Grey Friar Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The Franciscan monk or friar shown here wears a robe (a habit) and sandals; he carries a small cross on a chain or rosary. [Saint Francis of Assisi] surrendered all, even to the last article of his cl [...]

Keywords: people, robes, religion, monks, costumes, greyscale

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Added: 2005-10-22

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1029.—Dominican, or Black Friar Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The monk shown here is a Black Friar; despite the text he has neither bare feet nor sandals, but wears shoes; he also has more ornate robes than the text would seem to imply. In a great measure, men [...]

Keywords: people, robes, religion, monks, costumes, greyscale

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Added: 2007-08-21

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1146.—Chair (Royal M.S. 14 E, iii.) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The square-backed chair (Fig. 1146) was frequent in the mansions of the thirteenth century. In the fourteenth, they, and other articles combining household utility and elegance, were modified by the [...]

Keywords: furniture, chairs, people, writing, royalty, monks, scholars, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-01-19

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November Hone’s Everyday Book (1826)

A portly man sits astride a bearded centaur. The centaur is wearing a helmet and carrying a spear. The mean wears a monk’s tunic and is mopping his tonsured brow. A poem underneath the image: NOVEMBER [...]

Keywords: people, centaurs, spears, monks, calendars, months, november, colour

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Added: 2003-11-06

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