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Title page detail: heraldic scrollwork Geneva Bible Scans (1581)

The concordance title page includes this cartouche with a boar’s head (rather like a chess-piece, on a crowned brick base, formally a “mural crown”) with a scroll coming from its mouth and at the bott [...]

Keywords: borders, inscriptions, heraldry, sheep, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-18

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The Good Shepherd Bible Symbols (1908)

ernhard Plockhorst’s famous painting shows Jesus as a caucasian male (with a long straight nose), surrounded by sheep. He is barefoot, and carries a lamb, holding also a shepherd’s crook. He is protra [...]

Keywords: religion, portraits, people, sheep, art, colour

Places shown: Palestine

Added: 2010-06-22

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Frontispiece: Lâon, View From the Plain Cathedral Cities of France (1907)

The Cathedral of Lâon, or Laon, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon, was built in the 12th century. “Voillet-le-Duc, in his review of the cathedral of Lâon, says that it has a certain ring of democracy and [...]

Keywords: colour, cityscapes, views, cathedrals, sheep, hills, trees

Places shown: Lâon; Picardy; France

Added: 2006-06-29

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5.—Stonehenge. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The present arrangement of the ruin [of Stonehenge] is shown in Figs. 5 and 6.” (p. 3)

Keywords: ruins, megaliths, temples, people, animals, sheep, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-02-02

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6.—Stonehenge Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“The present [1845] appearance of the ruin [Stonehenge] is shown in Figs. 5 and 6.” (p. 3) “The description which we have thus given, brief as it is, may appear somewhat tedious; but it is necessary t [...]

Keywords: ruins, megaliths, people, sheep, temples, druids, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: Stonehenge; Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-02-11

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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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37.—Kit’s Coty House. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Sheep graze by the neolithic burial tomb while two shepherds wait. “The high road from Rochester to Maidstone presents several of those rich and varied prospects which so often in England compensate t [...]

Keywords: druids, megaliths, tombs, people, sheep, animals, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Maidstone; Kent; England

Added: 2005-10-01

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41.—Constantine Tolman, Cornwall Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

I believe this Tolman was destroyed in 1869, although I found no reference to it at the Constantine Village Web site. “There are remains of the more ancient times of Britain whose uses no antiquarian [...]

Keywords: animals, sheep, megaliths, ruins, tombs, druids, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: Constantine; Cornwall; England

Added: 2005-12-04

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87.—Country near Dover. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

“In the latter part of the summer of the year 55 B. C. (Halley, the astronomer, has gone far to prove that the exact day was the 26th of August), a Roman fleet crossed the Channel, bearing the infantr [...]

Keywords: views, hills, sheep, greyscale

Places shown: Dover; Kent; England

Added: 2008-09-15

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January: page image The Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume I (1930)

The page containing the heading for January; I have also scanned the woodcut for January separately.

Keywords: colour, page images, typography, january, people, sheep, zodiac, trees

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-08

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107.—Walls and Gate, Pevensey. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Here, as at Richborough, have the Roman galleys anchored; sheltered by the bold promontory of Beachy Head from the south-west gales, and secured from the attacks of pirates by the garrison who guarded [...]

Keywords: ruins, roman remains, castles, towers, walls, people, sheep, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-07-24

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109.—Supposed Saxon Keep, Pevensey. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

Sheep graze in the foreground; in the background a stone archway frames a tunnel through heavy masonry, a ruined tower. The ruin on this side is highly picturesque, large masses of the original wall h [...]

Keywords: ruins, castles, towers, arches, sheep, animals, greyscale

Places shown: Pevensey; Sussex; England

Added: 2012-07-25

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