Im Wechsel Der Tage (page 3/4)

Page image, full-page border with wild flowers

This page is surrounded with a border consisting of a straight lines overgrown with wild flowers fom the bottom of he page and working up more than halfway. [more...] [$]

Ornate initial K from Germany

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. [more...] [$]

Thistle Ornament

An ornament, or printers’ flower, in the shape of a thistle, from page 81; see the description for that image for other items from the same page, including the wild flowers border. [more...] [$]

The thoughts of my spirit seek you

A man sits on a rustic fence at the edge of a lake, fishing. His boat is tethered next to him. In the distance the sun sinks beneath a horizon with mountains and a forest. It’s a black-and-white sunset. [more...] [$]

The Beach Tree

A man and a woman, clearly a couple, stand at the stump of a tree on a waist-high bank; the man is carving their initials into it, i think. They seem rather formally dressed by modern standards, she with a [...] [more...] [$]

Forest of Romance

In the foreground a smartly-dressed young man is entreating a beautiful woman who wears an elaborate dress and bonnet. The couple is seated on a carved stone bench in a thick forest of mature trees; in the background a carved stone cherub or cupid is watching, representing romance. The lady has her eyes demurely closed [...] [more...] [$]

The Proposal

The man kneels holding out a small box containing a ring; he gazes, full of hope, at the beautiful woman. [more...] [$]

Cherub with grin and cloven hoofs

This putto (sungular of putti!) or cherub, symbolising romance, was in the background in Forest of Romance, a scene with a man proposing marriage to a woman. [more...] [$]

Cupid and rose briar

A putto, or small naked boy, here carries Cupid’s bow, the sign of love and romance. He hides beneath a rose briar with thorns, leave, and a beautiful engraving of a rose. [more...] [$]

Summer

A girl in a long formal pleated dress sits reading a book; she is sitting on a wooden chair with an upholstered cushion for the back and another for the seat; she clutches her frilly lace collar with her left hand. On her right, and our left, is a table with a large potted palm plant in a bowl with a lion [...] [more...] [$]

Vicorian room used as a border

This border is made by drawing a white rectangle over the picture of the girl sitting reading a book indoors in summer and also copying the outer border of the image to the sides of the white rectangle. I also cloned out the corner of the chair and the girl’s dress. Obviously you could replace the text here! [more...] [$]

The Abandoned Water-Mill

The drawing shows an old abandoned watermill, the wooden walls rotting away, the thatched roof uneven, the waterwheel still and rotten, the whole building overgrown. Romantic poems about deserted mills became popular in the second half of the nineteenth century, as mechanisation made a lot of them obsolete, and the mill here illustrates [...] [more...] [$]