Items matching sketches (results page 1)

Detail from title page Cambridge (1920)

A line drawing of a castle tower with leaves in the foreground.

Keywords: sketches, castles, towers, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2006-06-21

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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

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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Page detail: Art Neuveau border The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

A detail from the January Week 1 page showing the decorative border, which repeats on every fourth page throughout most of the book. A cat stands on a skull.

Keywords: borders, cats, skulls, sketches, spooky, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-05-25

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Page 5. The scent of the cherry-blossoms Out to Old Aunt Mary’s (1904)

“The scent of the cherry-blossoms blown After us, in the roadway lone” (p. 5) [page 4 is blank] The pencil sketch reproduced here shows a stream or river running past some trees, with some blossom in [...]

Keywords: sketches, trees, water, illustrations for children, colour

Places shown: USA

Added: 2006-01-16

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II.—Brasenose College Quadrangle and St. Mary’s Spire The Charm of Oxford (1920)

“Nowhere, except at Cambridge, can the series of architectural works be paralleles, and at both universities, the charm of their ancient buildings is enhanced by their beautiful setting in college gar [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, greyscale

Places shown: Brasenose College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-01-14

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I. Aetna over Taormina In the Land of the Temples (1915)

“For years I wanted to make this drawing—and for days after I reached Taormina I had to wait before I could make it: for a curtain of mist hung over the sea and land. Then suddenly in all its glory t [...]

Keywords: temples, mountains, sketches, ruins, colour

Places shown: Taormina; Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2003-12-14

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The Well of Knowledge The Cynic’s Calendar (1905)

The jester leads the donkey (or mule) to the well of knowedge (written, quaintly, “Knowledge. HerWelle”) but, stubbronly, the mule refuses to drink. The mule is wearing the board and gown of a univers [...]

Keywords: colour, humour, jesters, wells, sketches, cartoons

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-05-07

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Tonbridge, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Sketch of an Elizabethan cottage in Kent.

“Kent, Sussex and Surrey are three of the most delightful counties in England”

Keywords: houses, cottages, windows, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Tonbridge; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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115.—Rome—A fragment after Piranesi. Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

An engraving showing a fragment of a statue, or, more likely, a reproduction of a drawing by Piranesi of a Roman statue.

A short 1812 biography of Piranesi

Keywords: statuary, sketches, art, people, roman remains, shields, ruins, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-09-11

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Biddenden, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed Sydney R Jones 1906.

Biddenden village Web site

Keywords: cottages, houses, windows, sketches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Biddenden; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-16

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HRH The Prince of Wales These Be Your Gods (1929)

The Prince of Wales in 1929, when this book was written, was His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Cornwall, who later became (briefly, until he acceded) King Edward VIII. “I am glad that I was no [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, sketches, caricatures, cartoons, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-03

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Cranbrook, Kent Old English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed SRJ (Sydney R Jones) 1906. George and Frederick Hardy, George O’Neil and Thomas Webster formed the Cranbrook Art Colony here in the 1900s. Historic Kent notes about the village of Cranbrook “Ke [...]

Keywords: streets, cottages, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-24

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