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Wycliffe’s Pulpit at Lutterworth The Story of Some English Shires (1897)

Today John Wycliffe is remembered most for his translation of the Bible; he preached from this stone pulpit in Lutterworth Church. The last half of the fourteenth century found Leicester again connect [...]

Keywords: pulpits, arches, interiors, church architecture, churches, religion, greyscale

Places shown: Lutterworth; Leciestershire; England

Added: 2013-05-24

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Fantasy Romantic Border with Eros, Cherubs and Mermaids Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This ornate rococo border surrounded the title of a 1516 book printed in Germany: Sassenspegel: mit velen nyen Addicien san dem Leenrechte vnde Richtstige; Ad lectorem Saphicum cum Gliconico, Saxonum [...]

Keywords: borders, cherubs, title pages, typography, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-05-15

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Coffee Stall London (Volume IV) (1841)

A woman with heavy clothing and a scarf over her head is serving hot coffee from a wooden barrel to three people gathered around her small table at a street-corner. In the background a baker’s shop is [...]

Keywords: commerce, people, coffee, street scenes, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: London London; England

Added: 2013-05-14

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Avenging Angel Inferno: The Vision of Hell (1870)

A detail from “Satan and Beelzebub” showing a Victorious Avenging Angel with a spear, winged, standing barefoot on a rock. I have isolated the angel (a cutout angel!) The illustration is from the Firs [...]

Keywords: angels, mythical creatures, bare feet, wings, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-05-03

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Ostenhanger House, Kent, Plate I The Antiquities of England and Wales (Vol III) (1783)

Ostenhanger was merged with next-door Westenhanger Castle in 1509; today the manor is open for weddings but the part shown in this woodcut appears to be in ruins. The plate is signed Godfrey. Sc. (i.e [...]

Keywords: castles, towers, trees, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Westenhanger; Hythe; Kent; England

Added: 2013-05-01

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Isolated Angel Drawing La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Woodcut of an angel, an attractive young man with a half-smile and wings. He has bare feet and legs, bare arms, and is beckoning or gesturing, the index finger of his left hand raised and his right ar [...]

Keywords: angels, mythical creatures, religion, spirit, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-30

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Full-page foliated border from 1478. Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This ornate foliated border is festive (because I coloured it red) and swirly. It’s from the title page of a 1478 book, over 500 years old. See the full title page. Note that one side of the border is [...]

Keywords: borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-28

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Eros (Cherub with Bow) Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

An Eros, or cherub with a bow, from this ornate Renaissance border, a woodcut title page of a 1516 book.

This cutout cherub illustration is white on a black background.

Keywords: cherubs, romance, wings, bare feet, nudity, chidren, weapons, mythical creatures, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-28

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Foliated Decorative Capital Letter “O” Die Bücher-Ornamentik Der Renaissance (Vol. I.) (1878)

This floriated letter “O” was used as an initial capital (a drop cap) on a title page inside this ornate mediæval border. The letter has an unusual spiral line round it, vines, leaves, and a strongly [...]

Keywords: lettero, initials, calligraphy, floriated initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-27

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Two-wheeled plough. (From Harleian MS. No. 4374) Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The two-wheeled plough here is pulled by a pair of oxen and has one man behind. Harleian MS. 4374 is Les Fais et les Dis des Romains et de autres gens, by Valerius Maximus, translated by Simon de Hesd [...]

Keywords: people, animals, farming, work, rural, ploughs, farm machinery, oxen, spring, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-26

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

This page has been repaired at some point in the past four or five hundred years, both with a small hole in the page and by reattaching to the binding. In the transcription here, the Latin came from G [...]

Keywords: page images, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-23

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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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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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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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Panik! Detail: Medusa Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900)

Medusa has snakes for hair and don’t look, Medusa’s gaze will turn you to stone!

This is a detail from Panik! Panik!M painted orange.

Keywords: mythical creatures, medusa, colour, snakes, faces, horror, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-16

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Panik! Panik! Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900)

Everyone in the dance hall runs screaming, fleeing for their lives, when the medusa demon appears! Note, this was a double-page spread in issue 8 of Jugend Magazine, and the line down the middle is wh [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, medusa, fear, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-13

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Jugend Magazine, January 1900, Front Cover Jugend [German art maagazine] (1900)

The front cover from Jugend Magazine from Issue Two, January 1900. It features a blindfolded woman barefoot, resting one foot on a wheel, holding a cornucopia from which roses are falling. She reaches [...]

Keywords: book covers, art, art nouveau, time, zodiac, astrology, people, bare feet, clocks, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-12

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Ornate initial K from Germany Im Wechsel Der Tage (1885)

This letter K was used as a drop capital (drop cap, decorative initial) in a book printed in Germany in the 1880s; it could be much older, of course.

Keywords: letterk, initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-04-07

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Kneeling unicorn Sacred and Legendary Art (1890)

A unicorn with beard, mane and horn kneels, looking to the right.

This is a detail from Fig. 145, St. Justin and Alphonso I of Ferrara.

Keywords: unicorns, mythical creatures, backgrounds, wallpaper, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-03-27

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145.—St. Justin and Alphonso I of Ferrara (Moretto) Sacred and Legendary Art (1890)

St. Justina is shown here with the unicorn, representing chasitity or virginity. The original painting by Bonvicino of Brescia (Il Moretto) was in Venice. This is the St, Justina of the Belvedere. Sh [...]

Keywords: saints, mythical creatures, unicorns, people, religion, iconography, greyscale

Places shown: Ferrara; Emilia-Romagna; Italy

Added: 2013-03-27

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