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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/door/ | Plate showing an elaborate monumental double door and a close-up of one of the columnss | Binet, René | 1866 | 1911 | [
"France"
] | Esquisses décoratives | [
"Binet, René",
"Geffroy, Gustave"
] | [
"Librairie centrale des beaux-arts"
] | n.d. | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25458702M/Esquisses_décoratives | [
"Art Nouveau",
"black & white",
"design",
"gate",
"reference book"
] | [
"The Smithsonian Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.si.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/EsquissesdeYcor00Bine"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [] | Door | Door. | Plate showing an elaborate monumental double door with open and closed views and a close-up of one of the columns.
The caption reads in the original French: Porte.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/oak-house/ | Oak House, West Bromwich, Staffordshire | Everitt, Allen Edward | 1824 | 1882 | [
"UK"
] | The baronial halls, and ancient picturesque edifices of England, vol. 1 | [
"Hall, Samuel Carter"
] | [
"Willis and Sotheran"
] | 1858 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:baronialhallsanc01halluoft/The_baronial_halls_and_ancient_picturesque_edifices_of_England._From_drawings_by_J.D._Harding_G._Cat | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"color",
"Europe",
"mansion",
"The baronial halls...",
"timber-framed",
"UK",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/baronialhallsanc01halluoft"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [
"Day & Son"
] | Oak House, West Bromwich | The Oak House, West Bromwich, Staffordshire. | The Oak House is a half-timbered mansion built around 1630. It was made into a museum at the end of the 19th century.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/up-tree/ | An old man is silhouetted in the higher parts of a tree helping an old woman up | Batten, John Dickson | 1860 | 1932 | [
"UK"
] | Europa's fairy book | [
"Jacobs, Joseph"
] | [
"G. P. Putnam's Sons"
] | n.d. [ca. 1916] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6584189M/Europa's_fairy_book | [
"1910s",
"black & white",
"children's book",
"climbing",
"fairy tale",
"mixed genders",
"silhouette",
"tree"
] | [
"The New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/europasfairybo00jaco"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Up the Tree | Up the tree. | An old man is silhouetted leaning back in the higher parts of a tree as he helps an old woman up, so that she can join him on a makeshift flooring consisting of a door thrown across two branches.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/china-bottle-1/ | Floriated decoration from a painted china bottle | Jones, Owen | 1809 | 1874 | [
"UK"
] | Examples of Chinese ornament | [
"Jones, Owen"
] | [
"S. & T. Gilbert"
] | 1867 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23662323M/Examples_of_Chinese_ornament_selected_from_objects_in_the_South_Kensington_museum_and_other_collecti | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"border",
"China",
"color",
"earthenware",
"floral",
"reference book",
"Victorian"
] | [
"The library of the Philadelphia Museum of Art",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.philamuseum.org/library",
"https://archive.org/details/examplesofchines00jone"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Floriated Decoration with Borders | From a painted china bottle. | This ornament is described as follows by the author:
From a painted china bottle. Composition on the continuous-stem principle. The ornament in this example is in slight relief. The vase was cast in a mould.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cartouche-9/ | Publisher’s mark (4) | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Fables de La Fontaine | [
"La Fontaine, Jean de"
] | [
"Furne, Jouvet et Cie"
] | 1875 | nan | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Fables de La Fontaine",
"foliate",
"frame",
"Furne",
"publisher's mark"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Publisher’s mark (5) | Mark of publisher Furne & Jouvet (1875). | Mark of publisher Furne & Jouvet with foliated elements and initials F and J printed on a dotted background.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/strange-garden/ | An old man shows a younger one around a garden with hanged people in the trees | Browne, Gordon | 1858 | 1932 | [
"UK"
] | Fairy tales from Hans Andersen | [
"Andersen, Hans Christian"
] | [
"Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd"
] | 1919 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7070320M/Fairy_tales_from_Hans_Andersen. | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"Andersen's fairy tales",
"black & white",
"children's book",
"death",
"fairy tale",
"hanging",
"skull"
] | [
"The New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/fairytalesfromha00ande"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Strange Garden | That was a strange garden for a princess. | An old man in a dressing gown shows a younger one around a garden where hanged people can be seen in the trees and skulls are laid on the ground.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/boulevard-italiens/ | A corner on the Boulevard des Italiens | Courboin, François | 1865 | 1926 | [
"France"
] | Fashion in Paris | [
"Uzanne, Octave"
] | [
"William Heinemann"
] | 1901 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:gri_33125006432732/Fashion_in_Paris_the_various_phases_of_feminine_taste_and_%C3%A6sthetics_from_the_revolution_to_the_end_o | [
"1830s",
"1900s",
"19th century",
"20th century",
"color",
"costume",
"France",
"mixed genders",
"Paris"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_33125006432732"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Boulevard des Italiens | A corner on the Boulevard des Italiens. | A man and a woman are standing at a street corner in Paris, wearing the fashion of 1833.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tower-falls/ | Tower Falls | Fenn, Harry | 1845 | 1911 | [
"UK",
"US"
] | Picturesque America, vol. 1 | [
"Bryant, William Cullen (editor)"
] | [
"D. Appleton and Company"
] | n.d. [1872?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:picturesqueameri01brya/Picturesque_America_or_The_land_we_live_in._A_delineation_by_pen_and_pencil_of_the_mountains_rivers_ | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"Americas",
"Appleton",
"black & white",
"mountain",
"North America",
"rock",
"US"
] | [
"The UNC university library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://library.unc.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/picturesqueameri01brya"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Linton, William James"
] | Tower Fall | Tower Falls. | View of an impressive and elongated tooth of rock with a background of mountainous peaks overlooking a waterfall which cascades into a shallow riverbed. Tower Fall is part of Yellowstone National Park.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bombardment-strasbourg/ | Bombardment of Strasbourg (24 August 1870) | Férat, Jules | 1829 | 1906 | [
"France"
] | Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71 | [
"Claretie, Jules"
] | [
"le journal l'Éclipse"
] | 1871 | nan | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cityscape",
"Europe",
"fire",
"France",
"Franco-Prussian War",
"night",
"war"
] | [] | [] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [
"Daudenarde, Louis (aka Amédée Daudenarde)"
] | Bombardment of Strasbourg | Bombardment of Strasbourg. The cathedral and its surroundings in the night of August 24. | Bombardment of Strasbourg in the night of August 24, 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War.
The caption reads in the original French: Bombardement de Strasbourg. — La cathédrale et ses abords, dans la nuit du 24 août.
Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71 was first published as a series of fascicles by L’Éclipse, a weekly newspaper owned by François Polo. Polo published the text in book format some time later at Librairie Polo, which he also founded.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/airship-workshop/ | Workshop for the manufature of mail balloons | Fichot, Charles | 1817 | 1903 | [
"France"
] | Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71 | [
"Claretie, Jules"
] | [
"le journal l'Éclipse"
] | 1871 | nan | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"airship",
"black & white",
"Franco-Prussian War",
"history",
"military",
"transportation",
"war",
"working"
] | [] | [] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Workshop for the Manufacture of Mail Balloons | The siege of Paris. Workshop for the manufacture of mail balloons at Gare d'Orléans. | Following the defeat of Sedan, the Prussian army and its allies began to besiege Paris between September 17 and 19, 1870. The siege lasted until the French capitulation, which lead to a cease-fire agreement on January 26, 1871, and to the Treaty of Frankfurt later that same year.
During these four months, it was essential for the Parisians to communicate with the rest of the country as the Government of National Defense had withdrawn to Bordeaux. All available means were put to use and balloons were probably the most spectacular of them.
The first balloon to leave Paris, the Neptune, lifted off from Montmartre on September 23, 1870. More than sixty balloons flew across the sky of Paris during this period, including the one used by Léon Gambetta, at the time Minister of the Interior, on October 7.
In addition to passengers, balloons transported mail as well as carrier pigeons. The pilots were often recruited in the navy, and these flights were particularly risky: two balloons were lost at sea, another fell in the middle of enemy lines, a fourth one landed in Norway…
Among the balloon manufacturers, we must mention Nadar, the famous pioneer of aerial photographs, and the Godard Company. The Godard workshop was first established in Gare d’Orleans, as shown in this picture, and moved to Gare du Nord after Gare d’Orleans was damaged by the Prussians. A total of 34 balloons were built in the Godard workshops.
The caption reads in the original French: Le siège de Paris. — Atelier de fabrication de ballons-poste à la gare d’Orléans.
Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71 was first published as a series of fascicles by L’Éclipse, a weekly newspaper owned by François Polo. Polo published the text in book format some time later at Librairie Polo, which he also founded.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/frog-anatomy/ | Anatomical illustration showing the muscle structure and innards of a female frog | Fiedler, A. | ? | 19?? | [] | Brehms Tierleben, vol. 1 (second reprint) | [
"Brehm, Alfred Edmund"
] | [
"Bibliographisches Institut"
] | 1920 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7077275M/Brehms_Tierleben | [
"1920s",
"20th century",
"amphibian",
"anatomy",
"Brehms Tierleben",
"color",
"frog",
"reference book"
] | [
"Ernst Mayr Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.mcz.harvard.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/brehmstierlebena01breh"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [] | Anatomy of a Female Common Frog | Anatomy of a female common frog. | Anatomical illustration showing the muscle structure and innards of a female common frog. The pericardium was removed to allow for a better view of the heart.
The caption reads in the original German: Anatomie eines weiblichen Grasfrosches.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/grewgious/ | Study for Mr. Grewgious | Fildes, Luke | 1844 | 1927 | [
"UK"
] | Dickens and his illustrators | [
"Kitton, Frederic George"
] | [
"George Redway"
] | 1899 | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"male",
"sketch",
"The mystery of Edwin Drood",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/dickenshisillust00kittuoft"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Mr. Grewgious | Study for Mr. Grewgious. | A tall man stands warming his hands at a fire which can’t be seen on this sketch. Original drawing for the illustration captioned “Mr. Grewgious has his suspicions,” from The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/quercus-lamellosa/ | Botanical plate showing a branch of Quercus lamellosa with leaves and acorns | Fitch, Walter Hood | 1817 | 1892 | [
"UK"
] | Illustrations of Himalayan plants | [
"Hooker, Joseph Dalton"
] | [
"Lovell Reeve"
] | 1855 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25455713M/Illustrations_of_Himalayan_plants | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"color",
"Fagaceae",
"oak",
"reference book",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Missouri Botanical Garden Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.mobot.org/mobot/molib",
"https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003414270"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [
"Fitch, Walter Hood"
] | Quercus lamellosa | Quercus lamellosa, Ham. | Botanical plate showing a branch of Quercus lamellosa with leaves and acorns.
Quercus lamellosa is an evergreen oak tree (family Fagaceae) native to Asia.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/harlequin-frogs/ | Five species of harlequin frogs are seen on a rocky patch of grass | Fleischmann, Joseph | ? | 19?? | [] | Brehms Tierleben, vol. 1 (second reprint) | [
"Brehm, Alfred Edmund"
] | [
"Bibliographisches Institut"
] | 1920 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7077275M/Brehms_Tierleben | [
"1920s",
"20th century",
"amphibian",
"Brehms Tierleben",
"color",
"frog",
"reference book"
] | [
"Ernst Mayr Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.mcz.harvard.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/brehmstierlebena01breh"
] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [] | Harlequin Frogs | Harlequin frogs. | Five species of harlequin frogs are seen on a rocky patch of grass in an open landscape with a background of mountains.
The caption reads in the original German: Veränderlicher Stummelfuß.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/american-starthistle/ | American starthistle (Centaurea americana), a plant in the family Asteraceae | Stroobant, Louis-Constantin | 1814 | 1872 | [
"Belgium"
] | Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, vol. 4 | [
"Van Houtte, Louis (under the direction of)"
] | [
"Louis van Houtte"
] | 1848 | nan | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"Asteraceae",
"color",
"Flore des serres...",
"flower",
"periodical",
"red",
"reference book"
] | [
"Missouri Botanical Garden Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.mobot.org/mobot/molib",
"https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002747274"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [
"Stroobant, Louis-Constantin"
] | American Starthistle | Centaurea americana, Nutt. | The American starthistle (Centaurea americana) is a plant in the family Asteraceae. Native to North America, it is often grown for its ornamental flowers.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/vanda-tricolor/ | Vanda tricolor is a fragrant Orchid with decorative spotted flowers | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, vol. 6 | [
"Van Houtte, Louis (under the direction of)"
] | [
"Louis van Houtte"
] | 1850-1851 | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"color",
"Flore des serres...",
"flower",
"Orchidaceae",
"periodical",
"reference book",
"yellow"
] | [
"Missouri Botanical Garden Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.mobot.org/mobot/molib",
"https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002747290"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [] | Vanda tricolor | Vanda tricolor. | Vanda tricolor is a plant in the family Orchidaceae discovered in Java in 1846. In addition to their decorative spotted flowers, these orchids are known to be very fragrant.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/achiote/ | Achiote flowers, seed pods, and leaves. Bixa orellana is a shrub in the family Bixaceae | Descourtilz, Jean-Théodore | 179? | 1855 | [
"France"
] | Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles, vol. 1 | [
"Descourtilz, Michel-Etienne"
] | [] | 1821 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7038763M/Flore_pittoresque_et_m%C2%A9%E2%99%ADdicale_des_Antilles | [
"1820s",
"19th century",
"Americas",
"Bixaceae",
"color",
"flower",
"reference book"
] | [
"The New York Botanical Garden",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nybg.org/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/florepittoresque01desc"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [
"Gabriel, Louis"
] | Achiote | Achiote. | View of achiote flowers, seed pods, and leaves.
The achiote (Bixa orellana) is an evergreen shrub or bushy tree in the family Bixaceae. It is native to the Americas and is grown mostly for the orange dye obtained from its seeds.
The caption reads in the original French: Roucouïer.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/floriated-ornaments-25/ | Floriated Ornaments Plate 25 | Pugin, Augustus | 1812 | 1852 | [
"UK"
] | Floriated ornament | [
"Pugin, Augustus"
] | [
"Henry G. Bohn"
] | 1849 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6544283M/Floriated_ornament | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"color",
"flower",
"Victorian"
] | [
"the Clark",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.clarkart.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/floriatedornamen00pugi"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [
"Maguire, Henry Calton"
] | Floriated Ornaments Plate 25 | 1. Fumaria bublosa. — 2. Fumaria bublosa. — 3. Fumaria bublosa. — 4. Geranium violaceum. — 5. Curcubita largenaria major. | Floral ornaments inspired by the shapes of Corydalis solida (1-3), Geranium pratense (?), and calabash.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/wood-thicker/ | The wood became thicker and thicker | Ford, Henry Justice | 1860 | 1941 | [
"UK"
] | The red fairy book | [
"Lang, Andrew"
] | [
"Longmans, Green and Co."
] | 1890 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7108965M/The_red_fairy_book | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"children's book",
"fairy tale",
"frightened",
"riding",
"Victorian",
"woodland"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/redfairybook00langiala"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Wood Thicker and Thicker | The wood became thicker and thicker. | A woman is sitting on the back of a bull, making her way through a tangle of leaves and branches.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/clever-wife/ | You shall know what a clever wife you have got | Forestier, Amédée | 1854 | 1930 | [
"UK"
] | Blind love, vol. 1 | [
"Collins, Wilkie"
] | [
"Chatto & Windus"
] | 1890 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6972683M/Blind_love | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Blind love",
"book",
"couple",
"talking",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of Illinois Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.library.illinois.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/blindlove01coll"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Clever Wife | "Now," she said, taking a chair by the bedside, "you shall know what a clever wife you have got." | A woman is sitting by the side of a bed where her husband lies with a book, and talks to him animatedly.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/brookside/ | A place in the woods by the bank of a brook with an old oak tree | Foster, Myles Birket | 1825 | 1899 | [
"UK"
] | Pictures of rustic landscape | [
"Davidson, John"
] | [
"Longmans, Green and Co."
] | 1895 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL18078442M/Pictures_of_rustic_landscape | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Victorian",
"woodland"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/picturesofrustic00fostrich"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Dalziel, the brothers"
] | Brookside | At the brookside. | A place in the woods by the bank of a brook with an old oak tree, a rabbit, a magpie, and lush vegetation.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fratres-helenae/ | Fratres Helenae | Français, François-Louis | 1814 | 1897 | [
"France"
] | Paul et Virginie | [
"Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri"
] | [
"Léon Curmer"
] | 1838 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23161036M/Paul_et_Virginie | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"border",
"cartouche",
"foliage",
"fruit"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/pauletvirgi00sain"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [
"Hart (Solomon?)"
] | Fratres Helenae | ... Fratres Helenae, lucida sidera, sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera, | Decorative border made of leaves, flowers and fruit, inside which is written an excerpt of Horace’s Ode 1.3. The full stanza reads:
Sic te diva potens Cypri,
Sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera,
Ventorumque regat pater
Obstrictis aliis praeter Iapyga
Which can be understood as:
Thus the powerful goddess of Cyprus,
Thus the brothers of Helen, bright stars,
And the father of winds guide you,
With others confined except for Iapyx
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/murderer-murderer/ | Murderer | Frère, Pierre Édouard | 1819 | 1886 | [
"France"
] | Les mystères de Paris, vol. 1 | [
"Süe, Eugène"
] | [
"Charles Gosselin"
] | 1843 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6537028M/Les_myste%CC%80res_de_Paris | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"bird",
"black & white",
"crime",
"death",
"dog",
"eerie",
"Les mystères de Paris"
] | [
"University of Illinois Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.library.illinois.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmystresdepari01suee"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Murderer | Murderer! Murderer! Murderer! | A man with a knife in one hand and a body at his feet runs away in terror, chased by dogs and birds.
The caption reads in the original French: Assassin !… Assassin !… Assassin !
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/psht-cat/ | A man sitting in a dark room gestures toward a cat looking into a pot on the fire | Unknown | nan | nan | [
"Norway"
] | Folk and fairy tales | [
"Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen"
] | [
"A. C. Armstrong & Son"
] | n.d. [1883?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL14008228M/Folk_and_fairy_tales. | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cat",
"children's book",
"dark",
"eerie"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/folkandfairytale00asbjiala"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Hansen, Hans Peter"
] | You’ll Burn Yourself | Psht! cat! You'll burn yourself! | A man sitting on the floor of a dark room gestures toward a cat looking closely into a pot on the fire. The glinting eyes of many other cats can be seen around him.
Illustrators for this edition of Folk and Fairy Tales include Peter Nicolai Arbo, Hans Gude, Vincent Stoltenberg-Lerche, Eilif Peterssen, August Schneider, Otto Sinding, Adolph Tidemand, and Erik Werenskiold.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/talented-parrot/ | Talented parrot | Frost, Arthur Burdett | 1851 | 1928 | [
"US"
] | Stuff and nonsense | [
"Frost, Arthur Burdett"
] | [
"Charles Scribner's Sons"
] | 1884 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6535500M/Stuff_nonsense. | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"bird",
"black & white",
"cartoon",
"male",
"smug"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/stuffnonsense00frosrich"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | Talented Parrot | This gentleman made a display | A man has stretched out his arms on the side, so his parrot could perch on it. Looking quite pleased with himself, he is showing the bird off to two friends of his.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/vigilant-cop/ | A policeman is reclining fast asleep against a door, his hands resting on his belly | Frohn, John C. | 18?? | ? | [] | Nonsense for old and young | [
"Field, Eugene"
] | [
"Henry A. Dickerman & Son"
] | 1901 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7073016M/Nonsense_for_old_and_young. | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"children's book",
"color",
"male",
"sleeping",
"yellow"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/nonsenseforoldyo00fieliala"
] | Humor | Square | [] | Vigilant Cop | The vigilant cop. | A policeman is sitting on a doorstep, reclining fast asleep against the door, his hands resting on his belly.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/newsstand/ | Illuminated Newsstand | Gaildrau, Jules | 1816 | 1898 | [
"France"
] | L'Illustration | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Dubochet et Cie"
] | 1857 | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Paris",
"periodical",
"reading",
"shop",
"street"
] | [] | [] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Illuminated Newsstand | Illuminated newsstands. New offices for selling newspapers on the Paris boulevards. | A few Parisians are gathered around a newsstand, some reading the headlines in the windows, one leaning on the counter ready to buy a newspaper, another reading the magazine L’Illustration in front of the kiosk.
The scene takes place in the evening to emphasize the fact that the newsstand is illuminated from inside. This sort of stall was only beginning to appear at the time. The company that built them received the assent of the government, and kiosks quickly came to replace the self-made shelters that newspaper sellers, who had to stay at the same spot without being allowed to walk around, had ended up building to protect them from bad weather.
The caption reads in the original French: Kioskes lumineux. Nouveaux bureaux pour la vente des journaux sur les boulevards.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/spurred-steed/ | He stooped his head, and couched his spear | Garrett, Edmund Henry | 1853 | 1929 | [
"US"
] | The lay of the last minstrel | [
"Scott, Walter"
] | [
"Ticknor and Company"
] | 1887 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24133567M/The_lay_of_the_last_minstrel | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"fight",
"horse",
"knight",
"medieval",
"running",
"Ticknor"
] | [
"The Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/layoflastminstre00sco"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Lyouns, H. W."
] | Spurred His Steed | But he stooped his head, and couched his spear, | Two knights in armor have spurred their horses to full gallop with their lances pointed at each other. A third character running alongside waves his arms as though to encourage them.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/leisurely/ | nan | Gavarni, Paul | 1804 | 1866 | [
"France"
] | Œuvres choisies de Gavarni, vol. 4 | [
"Gavarni, Paul",
"Stahl, P.-J. (Pierre-Jules Hetzel),"
] | [
"Garnier Frères"
] | n.d. [ca. 1848?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:oeuvreschoisiesd04gava/Oeuvres_choisies_de_Gavarni | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"couple",
"La vie de jeune homme",
"leisure",
"reading",
"smoking"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/oeuvreschoisiesd04gava"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [
"Piaud, Antoine-Alphée"
] | Leisurely | A new novel, a young love, an old pipe. | This illustration was taken from the series “La vie de jeune homme” (Bachelor’s life), which describes various situations that a single young man with a penchant for bohemianism could meet in Paris in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Here we have a young gentleman reclining and smoking a long, chibouk-like pipe, while his fiancée is reading in the background: women, of course, played a prominent part in that lifestyle and money came in a close second, or more accurately, the relentless pursuit of how much of it was necessary to spend the evening out. And tobacco was an essential prop.
The caption reads in the original French: Un roman nouveau, un jeune amour, une vieille pipe.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/broken-violin/ | A man is sitting in a poor house, his dog snuggling up to him as a broken violin lies on floor | Gernier | nan | nan | [] | Œuvres complètes de Béranger, vol. 2 | [
"Béranger, Pierre-Jean de"
] | [
"Perrotin"
] | 1847 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24150755M/Oeuvres_compl%C3%A8tes. | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"dog",
"music",
"sad",
"song"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/oeuvrescompl02br"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Darodes, Louis-Auguste"
] | The Broken Violin | The broken violin. | Illustration for a song, showing a dejected man sitting on a bench in a poor house. His dog snuggles up to him to bring him comfort as a broken violin lies on floor. Additional motifs related to verses of the song can be seen above and below the main illustration.
The original title of the song reads: Le violon brisé.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/among-ourselves/ | Three women are chatting over a newspaper one them is reading in an armchair | Steinlen, Théophile-Alexandre | 1859 | 1923 | [
"France",
"Switzerland"
] | Gil Blas illustré, vol 7-8 (1897-1898) | [
"Collective work"
] | [] | n.d. [1899?] | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"color",
"female",
"periodical",
"reading"
] | [
"University of Illinois Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.library.illinois.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/gilblasillustre7818unse"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Among Ourselves | Among ourselves. | Three women, including a maid and a young lady in a hat, are chatting over a newspaper (Gil Blas) one them is reading in an armchair.
The caption reads in the original French: Entre soi.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/advice-hostess/ | Advice to a hostess | Gibson, Charles Dana | 1867 | 1944 | [
"US"
] | The social ladder | [
"Gibson, Charles Dana"
] | [
"John Lane",
"R. H. Russell"
] | 1902 | nan | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"black & white",
"crowd",
"performance",
"satire"
] | [
"the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://whitney.org/Research/Library",
"https://archive.org/details/socialladd00gibs"
] | Humor | Landscape (wider) | [] | Advice to Hostess | Advice to a hostess. | A gathering of people in evening dress watches a magician pulling a rabbit from his hat.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/vilest-ways/ | He took revenge on me | Gigoux, Jean | 1806 | 1894 | [
"France"
] | Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | [
"Lesage, Alain-René"
] | [
"Paulin"
] | 1836 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24386059M/Histoire_de_Gil_Blas_de_Santillane | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"fight",
"night"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/histoiredegilb00lesa"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Took Revenge on Me | He decided to take revenge on me in a vile way. | At night a man on the ground is given a drubbing by a mob as the man who ordered it watches from a flight of stairs.
The caption reads in the original French: Il résolut de se venger de moi d’une manière infâme.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/canrobert/ | Maréchal Canrobert | Gilbert, Achille | 1828 | 1899 | [
"France"
] | Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71 | [
"Claretie, Jules"
] | [
"le journal l'Éclipse"
] | 1871 | nan | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"history",
"male",
"military",
"portrait"
] | [] | [] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Maréchal Canrobert | M | François Certain Canrobert (Saint-Céré 1809 – Paris 1895) was a French officer who spent the first part of his career in the colonial war in Algeria. Close to Napoleon III, he supported him during the coup of December 2, 1851, and took part in suppressing the republican resistance against the new regime.
He was made Marshal of France on his return from the Crimean War (1856) and became a leader of the Bonapartist party after the fall of the Second Empire.
Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71 was first published as a series of fascicles by L’Éclipse, a weekly newspaper owned by François Polo. Polo published the text in book format some time later at Librairie Polo, which he also founded.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/horseman/ | A horseman approaches a village where a wedding is taking place | Crane, Walter | 1845 | 1915 | [
"UK"
] | Goody-Two-Shoes | [
"Crane, Walter"
] | [
"John Lane"
] | n.d. [ca. 1900?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7139018M/Goody-two-shoes | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"children's book",
"color",
"horse",
"riding",
"Victorian"
] | [
"The New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/goodytwoshoes00cran"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Evans, Edmund"
] | Watching a Horseman | Their friends assembled outside were busily engaged in watching the progress of a horseman. | A horseman is seen from behind approaching a village where a wedding is taking place as children are watching him.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/delivered-phial/ | The owl flew with it and reappeared, bringing it quite full | Goble, Warwick | 1862 | 1943 | [
"UK"
] | The fairy book | [
"Craik, Dinah Maria"
] | [
"Macmillan and Co."
] | 1913 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7081753M/The_fairy_book | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"bird",
"children's book",
"color",
"dragon",
"fairy tale",
"flying",
"monster",
"owl"
] | [
"The New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/fairybookbestpop00crai02"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Owl Flew with Phial | Avenant delivered up his phial; the owl flew with it into the grotto and in less than half-an-hour reappeared, bringing it quite full and well corked. | An owl is flying with a vial in its bill as a dragon sits on a rock watching it and a man stands by a dead tree.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/louis-xiv-death/ | Death of Louis XIV | Godefroy Durand | 1832 | 1920 | [
"France"
] | Les mémoires de Saint-Simon | [
"Le Goffic, Charles",
"Saint-Simon",
"Tellier, Jules"
] | [
"Delagrave"
] | ca. 1900 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24145460M/Les_m%C3%A9moires | [
"19th century",
"black & white",
"death",
"deathbed",
"France",
"history",
"king",
"unwell"
] | [] | [] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Death of Louis XIV | Death of Louis XIV. | King Louis XIV lies on his deathbed and receives the respects of his court.
The caption reads in the original French: Mort de Louis XIV.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/opera/ | The Opera | Godwin, J. | nan | nan | [] | The poets of the nineteenth century | [
"More, Hannah",
"Willmott, Robert Aris (editor)"
] | [
"Harper & Brothers"
] | 1857 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6412707M/The_poets_of_the_nineteenth_century. | [
"1850s",
"18th century",
"19th century",
"music",
"performance",
"singing",
"theater",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/poetsofnineteent02will"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Opera | Opera. | Four men dressed in the eighteenth century fashion are inside a box at the opera, two of them only looking at the stage, where a female singer is performing. Illustration for the poem “The Opera” by Hannah More.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/begonia/ | Tuberous begonia Mme Joseph Eliat | Goossens, A. | nan | nan | [] | L'Illustration horticole, vol. 42 | [
"Garnier, Max",
"Rodigas, Émile"
] | [
"L’Illustration Horticole"
] | 1895 | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"color",
"flower",
"L'Illustration horticole",
"periodical",
"red",
"reference book"
] | [
"Biodiversity Heritage Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/lillustrationhor42lema",
"https://archive.org/details/lillustrationhor42lema"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [
"Pannemaeker, Pierre Joseph de"
] | Tuberous begonia Mme Joseph Eliat | Tuberous begonia Mme Joseph Eliat. | Tuberous begonias are hybrid plants created in the 19th century and cultivated for their decorative qualities.
The caption reads in the original French: Bégonia tubéreux Mme Joseph Eliat.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/listening-cat/ | Cat on the Lookout | Grandville, J.-J. | 1803 | 1847 | [
"France"
] | Le magasin pittoresque, vol. 8 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Édouard Charton"
] | 1840 | nan | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cat",
"Felidae",
"Le magasin pittoresque",
"listening",
"mammal",
"periodical",
"pet",
"smiling"
] | [] | [] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [] | Cat on the Lookout | Moaning and suffering. Concern caused by some particular noise. | This picture is part of a series of twenty sketches made by J.-J. Grandville to illustrate the various expressions of cats. It comes with the following descriptions, referring to the first and the second drawing respectively:
Miss Betty walks along the corridor, with a pathetic mewing; Miss Betty is hungry, she hasn’t been given her milk yet. The cook is late and might have been harsh, hence the rightful and touching complaint.
Here in contrast is a little master cat, whose pretty spiritual face is alert, filled with deep concern. He was suddenly interrupted in the middle of his games by the noise of a copper basin, or by the approach of a stranger’s voice. He is ready to jump and dash off.
The caption reads in the original French: Plainte et souffrance. — Préoccupation causée par un bruit particulier.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/queen-glass/ | A woman wearing is seen in profile looking at her reflection in a mirror | Bell, Robert Anning | 1863 | 1933 | [
"UK"
] | Grimm's household tales | [
"Brothers Grimm"
] | [
"E. P. Dutton & Co.",
"J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd."
] | 1912 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7196982M/Grimm's_household_tales | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"black & white",
"children's book",
"fairy tale",
"female",
"Grimm's fairy tales",
"queen"
] | [
"The New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/grimmshouseholdt00grim"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Queen and Glass | The queen and her glass. | A woman wearing a headdress is seen in profile looking at her reflection in a mirror.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/september/ | September | Greenaway, Kate | 1846 | 1901 | [
"UK"
] | Kate Greenaway's almanack for 1893 | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"George Routledge and Sons"
] | n.d. [1892?] | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"child",
"children's book",
"color",
"female",
"fruit",
"Victorian"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/1893almanack00londuoft"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Evans, Edmund"
] | September | September. | A woman and a little girl pick blackberries on the other side of a fence.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/eagle-crow/ | An eagle is soaring above crows sitting on a mountain top | Griset, Ernest | 1844 | 1907 | [
"France",
"UK"
] | Æsop's fables (Griset) | [
"Æsop",
"Rundell, Joseph Benjamin"
] | [
"Cassell Petter and Galpin"
] | n.d. [1869?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7098479M/AEsop%27s_fables | [
"19th century",
"Æsop's fables",
"bird",
"black & white",
"fable",
"mountain",
"rock",
"Victorian"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/aesopsfables00aesorich"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [
"Pannemaker, Adolphe François"
] | The Eagle and the Crow | The eagle and the crow. | An eagle is soaring above crows sitting on a mountain top.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/kneading-machine/ | Kneading Machine | Guiguet, L. | nan | nan | [
"France"
] | Les merveilles de l'industrie, vol. 4 | [
"Figuier, Louis"
] | [
"Furne, Jouvet et Cie"
] | 1877 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:b21497187_0004/Les_merveilles_de_l'industrie_ou_Description_des_principales_industries_modernes | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Furne",
"Les merveilles de l'industrie",
"machine"
] | [
"The Wellcome Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://wellcomelibrary.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/b21497187_0004"
] | Science & technology | Landscape (wider) | [] | Kneading Machine | Bread dough kneading machine. | Human-powered kneading machine operated by turning a wheel.
The caption reads in the original French: Pétrin pour pâte à pain, avec moteur à bras.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/end-brunhilde/ | A woman is about to plunge a dagger into her heart as two other women grieve at her side | Häberlin, Carl von | 1832 | 1911 | [
"Germany"
] | Germania's Sagenborn | [
"Engelmann, Emil"
] | [
"Verlag von Paul Neff"
] | 1889 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24596855M/Germania's_Sagenborn | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"death",
"deathbed",
"knife",
"medieval",
"mixed genders",
"sad",
"suicide",
"warrior"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/germaniassagenbo00enge"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | The End of Brunhilde | The end of Brunhilde. | A woman is reclining on her bed, about to plunge a dagger into her heart in the presence of two other women are grieving by her side as a man in armor enters the room.
The caption reads in the original German: Brünnhilds Ende.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tamed-gerfalcon/ | Tamed the Gerfalcon | Hallock Foote, Mary | 1847 | 1938 | [
"US"
] | The skeleton in armor | [
"Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth"
] | [
"James R. Osgood & Co."
] | 1877 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7025138M/The_skeleton_in_armor | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"bird",
"black & white",
"child",
"male",
"rock",
"seascape"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/skeletoninarmor00longrich"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [
"Anthony, Andrew Varick Stout"
] | Tamed the Gerfalcon | By the wild Baltic’s strand, | A boy leans on a rock by the seaside as a gerfalcon lands on his hand.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/princesses-plenty/ | Princesses he found in plenty | Robinson, William Heath | 1872 | 1944 | [
"UK"
] | Hans Andersen's fairy tales | [
"Andersen, Hans Christian"
] | [
"Constable & Co. Ltd."
] | n.d. [1917] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7157946M/Hans_Andersen's_fairy_tales | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"Andersen's fairy tales",
"child",
"children's book",
"color",
"fairy tale"
] | [
"The New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/hansandersensfai00ande"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Princesses in Plenty | Princesses he found in plenty, but whether they were real princesses it was impossible for him to decide. | A prince with a traveler’s staff and wearing a cape decorated with a dragon stands among girls, wondering if they are real princesses.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fox-screamed/ | Swarms of silhouetted animals of all species are rushing in every direction | Rackham, Arthur | 1867 | 1939 | [
"UK"
] | Hansel & Grethel & other tales | [
"Brothers Grimm"
] | [
"E. P. Dutton & Co."
] | 1920 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7087196M/Hansel_Grethel_other_tales | [
"1920s",
"20th century",
"children's book",
"color",
"eerie",
"fairy tale",
"frantic",
"Grimm's fairy tales",
"silhouette"
] | [
"The New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/hanselgretheloth00grim"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [] | Fox Screamed | At the third sting the fox screamed, and down went his tail between his legs. | Swarms of silhouetted animals of all species are rushing in every direction in the sky as well as on the ground.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/warwick-castle/ | Warwick Castle, Warwickshire | Harding, James Duffield | 1798 | 1863 | [
"UK"
] | The baronial halls, and ancient picturesque edifices of England, vol. 1 | [
"Hall, Samuel Carter"
] | [
"Willis and Sotheran"
] | 1858 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:baronialhallsanc01halluoft/The_baronial_halls_and_ancient_picturesque_edifices_of_England._From_drawings_by_J.D._Harding_G._Cat | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"castle",
"color",
"Europe",
"The baronial halls...",
"UK",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/baronialhallsanc01halluoft"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [
"Day & Son"
] | Warwick Castle | Warwick Castle, Warwickshire. | View of Warwick Castle overlooking the River Avon. There has been a castle in Warwick since early medieval times, although the present building dates mostly from the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th century, the former fortress was converted into a mansion.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/gazed-inner-court/ | She gazed upon the inner court | Harper, W. St. John | 1851 | 1910 | [
"US"
] | The lay of the last minstrel | [
"Scott, Walter"
] | [
"Ticknor and Company"
] | 1887 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24133567M/The_lay_of_the_last_minstrel | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"frontispiece",
"thoughtful",
"Ticknor",
"vase"
] | [
"The Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/layoflastminstre00sco"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"John Andrew & Son"
] | Gazed upon the Inner Court | She gazed upon the inner court, | A woman is sitting by a patterned window, looking thoughtful as she leans on a table decorated with a vase of flowers.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/yardley-oak/ | Yardley Oak | Harvey, William | 1796 | 1866 | [
"UK"
] | The poets of the nineteenth century | [
"Cowper, William",
"Willmott, Robert Aris (editor)"
] | [
"Harper & Brothers"
] | 1857 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6412707M/The_poets_of_the_nineteenth_century. | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Europe",
"tree",
"UK",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/poetsofnineteent02will"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [] | Yardley Oak | Yardley Oak. | The Yardley Oak used to grow in Yardley Chase, in the part of the forest located in Buckinghamshire. It was supposed to be more than seven hundred years old. Illustration for the eponymous poem by William Cowper.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/servadac-instructor/ | A group of people is ice-skating in a rocky landscape | Philippoteaux, Paul Dominique | 1846 | 1923 | [
"France"
] | Hector Servadac | [
"Verne, Jules"
] | [
"Hetzel"
] | n.d. | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24245080M/Hector_Servadac | [
"19th century",
"black & white",
"crowd",
"leisure",
"rock",
"sport"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/hectorservadacvo00vern"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Laplante, Charles"
] | As Good as His Instructor | Captain Servadac was soon as good as his instructor. | A group of people including two men in the foreground is ice-skating in a rocky landscape.
The caption reads in the original French: Le capitaine Servadac devint bientôt l’égal de son professeur.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hereford-nave/ | The nave of Hereford Cathedral after the 1786 fall of the western tower | Hearne, Thomas | 1744 | 1817 | [
"UK"
] | Cathedral antiquities of England, vol. 3 | [
"Britton, John"
] | [
"Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown"
] | 1814-1835 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25463310M/Cathedral_antiquities | [
"1810s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cathedral",
"Cathedral antiquities",
"church",
"Europe",
"Gothic",
"Longman & Co.",
"medieval",
"reference book",
"religious",
"ruins",
"UK"
] | [
"The Duke University Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.duke.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/cathedralantiqui03brit"
] | Buildings & monuments | Landscape (wider) | [
"Redaway, James C"
] | Hereford Cathedral—the Nave | Hereford Cathedral. | View of the nave of Hereford Cathedral as seen from the south-west angle, after most of the rubble produced by the 1786 fall of the western tower had been taken away. The excerpt below gives some additional information about the original drawing, as well as the author’s opinion on the repairs carried out by James Wyatt.
My once much esteemed friend and countryman, Mr. Hearne, was at Hereford in that year*, and with his usual taste and accuracy made the drawing from which the annexed engraving has been copied. It becomes peculiarly valuable in the estimation of the architectural antiquary, from shewing the style and character of the triforium, the clerestory, with its thick wall pierced with a corridor, or passage, its vaulted and ribbed roof, and its aisles, all of which were rebuilt, in a very different, and I must add a very indifferent, style from the designs of the late Mr. James Wyatt, who has unfortunately left other specimens of ill applied and ill designed works in the Cathedrals of Salisbury, Lichfield, and Durham.
*1786
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/kneeling-by-cradle/ | Maid kneeling by a cradle | Castelli, Horace | 1825 | 1889 | [
"France"
] | Heur et malheur | [
"Erwin, Emma d'"
] | [
"Hachette"
] | 1877 | nan | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"child",
"children's book",
"female"
] | [] | [] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Maid Kneeling by a Cradle | She almost woke up the baby. | A maid kneels by a baby in a cradle and stares at the floor as though looking for something.
The caption reads in the original French: Elle faillit réveiller le baby.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cheers/ | Cheers | Henriot (Henri Maigrot) | 1857 | 1933 | [
"France"
] | Almanach comique, pittoresque, drolatique, critique et charivarique pour l'année 1887 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Dépôt Central des Almanachs"
] | 1887 | nan | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"almanac",
"black & white",
"female",
"festive"
] | [] | [] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Cheers | Cheers. | A woman holds a glass and a bottle of champagne in such a way as to seem to invite us to celebrate with her.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/u-undine/ | A young woman with long hair comes out of the water pursuing two men | Herford, Oliver | 1863 | 1935 | [
"US"
] | An alphabet of celebrities | [
"Herford, Oliver"
] | [
"Small, Maynard & Company"
] | 1899 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6774047M/An_alphabet_of_celebrities | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"alphabet",
"children's book",
"frightened",
"mixed genders",
"mythology"
] | [
"The Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/alphabetofcelebr00herf"
] | Humor | Square | [] | U is for Undine | U is for Undine, pursuing Ulysses | A young woman with long hair comes out of the water pursuing two men who run away on the sandy shore.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/woman-holding-drawing/ | Woman holding a drawing | Hering, George Edwards | 1805 | 1879 | [
"UK"
] | La corbeille | [
"Collective work"
] | [] | ca. 1850 | nan | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"portrait"
] | [] | [] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Woman Holding a Drawing | Woman holding a drawing. | A seated woman is holding a drawing, probably representing somebody’s portrait. She’s pointing a finger at a detail in the picture while turning her head to the left, as though talking to someone outside the frame of the image.
Engraving initially published by Ackermann & Co., London, 1846.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cartouche5/ | Cartouche (5) | Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe | 1707 | 1783 | [
"France"
] | Histoire ancienne | [
"Rollin, Charles"
] | [] | 1739 | nan | [
"1730s",
"18th century",
"black & white",
"cartouche",
"Rococo"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [
"Delahaye, Guillaume-Nicolas"
] | Cartouche (4) | Rococo cartouche for a map of Anatolia. | Rococo cartouche for a map of Anatolia documenting the expedition of Cyrus. The elaborate frame is decorated with symbols pertaining to ancient wars, such as a helmet, a club, a flag, and a gonfalon.
The cartographer for this series of maps was Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville. Jacques-Philippe Le Bas seems to have been consistently responsible for the artwork, although his name doesn’t appear on every map. The publication date we mention is that which appears in the cartouche (i.e. not necessarily the publication date of the book the map refers to: we don’t know if the maps were included with the books or published separately).
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cartouche-8/ | Cartouche (8) | Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe | 1707 | 1783 | [
"France"
] | Histoire ancienne | [
"Rollin, Charles"
] | [] | 1740 | nan | [
"1740s",
"18th century",
"black & white",
"cartouche",
"drape"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [
"Bourgoin, Pierre"
] | Cartouche (8) | Draped cartouche showing ancient units for measuring distance. | Cartouche shaped as a drape showing ancient units for measuring distance such as stadion, Roman mile, and league.
The cartographer for this series of maps was Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville. Jacques-Philippe Le Bas seems to have been consistently responsible for the artwork, although his name doesn’t appear on every map. The publication date we mention is that which appears in the cartouche (i.e. not necessarily the publication date of the book the map refers to: we don’t know if the maps were included with the books or published separately).
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/dwarf-crocodile/ | A dwarf crocodile leaves the bank of a river to enter the water | Heubach, Walter | 1865 | 1923 | [] | Brehms Tierleben, vol. 1 (second reprint) | [
"Brehm, Alfred Edmund"
] | [
"Bibliographisches Institut"
] | 1920 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7077275M/Brehms_Tierleben | [
"1920s",
"20th century",
"Africa",
"Brehms Tierleben",
"color",
"Crocodylidae",
"reference book",
"reptile",
"river"
] | [
"Ernst Mayr Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.mcz.harvard.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/brehmstierlebena01breh"
] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [] | Dwarf Crocodile | Dwarf crocodile. | A dwarf crocodile leaves the bank of a river to enter the water.
The dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis) is a reptile in the family Crocodylidae native to Africa. It is the smallest extant crocodile and is mainly active after nightfall.
The caption reads in the original German: Stumpfkrokodil.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cartouche4/ | Cartouche (3) | Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe | 1707 | 1783 | [
"France"
] | Histoire ancienne | [
"Rollin, Charles"
] | [] | 1738 | nan | [
"1730s",
"18th century",
"black & white",
"cartouche",
"Rococo"
] | [] | [] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [
"Bourgoin, Pierre"
] | Cartouche (3) | Rococo cartouche. | Rococo cartouche displaying various ancient units for measuring distance.
The cartographer for this series of maps was Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville. Jacques-Philippe Le Bas seems to have been consistently responsible for the artwork, although his name doesn’t appear on every map. The publication date we mention is that which appears in the cartouche (i.e. not necessarily the publication date of the book the map refers to: we don’t know if the maps were included with the books or published separately).
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/day-breaking/ | The day was breaking | Gigoux, Jean | 1806 | 1894 | [
"France"
] | Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane | [
"Lesage, Alain-René"
] | [
"Paulin"
] | 1836 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24386059M/Histoire_de_Gil_Blas_de_Santillane | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"couple",
"crime"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/histoiredegilb00lesa"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Godard, Pierre-François (aka Godard II d'Alençon)"
] | Day Was Breaking | The day was breaking when we left this pit. | A man equipped with a gun and a lantern, and a woman carrying a large wooden box are on their way out of a shabby place, leaving behind a tied up and gagged woman.
The caption reads in the original French: Le jour commençoit à paroître lorsque nous nous vîmes hors de cet abîme.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/dog-butcher-shop/ | Cat and dog meat butcher shop | Unknown | nan | nan | [] | Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71 | [
"Claretie, Jules"
] | [
"le journal l'Éclipse"
] | 1871 | nan | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Franco-Prussian War",
"history",
"shop"
] | [] | [] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Cat and Dog Meat Butcher Shop | The siege of Paris. — A "special" butcher shop at Saint-Germain market. | This scene takes place in Paris between September 1870 and January 1871 when the city was besieged by the Prussian army and it allies.
After the French troops were defeated in Sedan and Metz, the only resistance the Prussian army had to overcome was in Paris where a government of national defense had been proclaimed. Despite a few spectacular escapes from the city by means of hot air balloons, all attempts to relieve the siege failed and the Parisians were left to endure lack of supply and communication with the rest of the country.
The caption reads in the original French: Le siège de Paris. Une boucherie spéciale au marché Saint-Germain.
Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71 was first published as a series of fascicles by L’Éclipse, a weekly newspaper owned by François Polo. Polo published the text in book format some time later at Librairie Polo, which he also founded.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/enormous-crocodile/ | A gigantic crocodile seems on the verge of attacking a man on a boat | Johannot, Tony | 1803 | 1852 | [
"France"
] | Histoire du roi de Bohême et de ses sept châteaux | [
"Nodier, Charles"
] | [
"Delangle Frères"
] | 1830 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24623697M/Histoire_du_roi_de_Bohm%CC%82e_et_de_ses_sept_ch%C3%A2teaux | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"boat",
"crocodilian",
"male",
"reptile"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/histoireduroideb00nodi"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Porret, Henri Désiré"
] | Enormous Crocodile | I saw an enormous crocodile catching hold of the stern. | A man wearing a turban and puffy pants stands on a boat as a gigantic crocodile seems on the verge of attacking him.
The caption reads in the original French: Je vis un crocodile énorme qui saisissait la poupe.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/siegfried-welcomed/ | View of an imaginary medieval castle with battlements, turrets and bartizans | Hoffmann, Th. | nan | nan | [
"Germany"
] | Germania's Sagenborn | [
"Engelmann, Emil"
] | [
"Verlag von Paul Neff"
] | 1889 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24596855M/Germania's_Sagenborn | [
"1880s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"castle",
"greeting"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/germaniassagenbo00enge"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [] | Siegfried Welcomed | Florigunde’s mother welcomed Siegfried on the same look-out post. | View of an imaginary medieval castle with battlements, turrets and bartizans.
The caption reads in the original German: Die Mutter Florigundes begrüßte Siegfried auf derselben Warte.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/robert-burns/ | Portrait of Robert Burns showing a three-quarter frontal view of the poet | Hole, William | 1846 | 1917 | [
"UK"
] | The poetry of Robert Burns, vol. 1 | [
"Burns, Robert"
] | [
"T.C. and E.C. Jack"
] | 1896 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7045631M/Poetry. | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"Poetry of Robert Burns",
"portrait",
"Scotland",
"Victorian",
"writer"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/poetryeditedbywe01burnuoft"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Robert Burns | Robert Burns. | Portrait of Robert Burns showing a three-quarter frontal view of the poet wearing a jabot and looking to his right.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hypoplectrus-puella/ | Hypoplectrus puella, a fish in the Serranidae family native to the Atlantic ocean | Werner, Jean Charles | 1798 | 1856 | [
"France"
] | Histoire naturelle des poissons (volume of plates 9-140) | [
"Cuvier, Georges",
"Valenciennes, Achille"
] | [
"F. G. Levrault"
] | n.d. [1828-1849?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13516498M/Histoire_naturelle_des_poissons | [
"19th century",
"color",
"fish",
"reference book",
"saltwater",
"Serranidae"
] | [
"The Ernst Mayr Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.mcz.harvard.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturell09140cuvi"
] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [
"Smith"
] | Hypoplectrus puella | Hypoplectrus puella. | Plate showing Hypoplectrus puella, a fish in the Serranidae family native to the Atlantic Ocean.
The caption reads in the original French: Plectropome demoiselle — Plectropoma puella. n.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/meconopsis-napaulensis/ | Botanical plate showing Meconopsis napaulensis flowers, fruit, seeds, and leaves | Hooker, Joseph Dalton | 1817 | 1911 | [
"UK"
] | Illustrations of Himalayan plants | [
"Hooker, Joseph Dalton"
] | [
"Lovell Reeve"
] | 1855 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25455713M/Illustrations_of_Himalayan_plants | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"Asia",
"color",
"flower",
"Papaveraceae",
"reference book",
"Victorian",
"yellow"
] | [
"Missouri Botanical Garden Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.mobot.org/mobot/molib",
"https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003414270"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [
"Fitch, Walter Hood"
] | Meconopsis napaulensis | Meconopsis nepalensis [sic], Wall. | Botanical plate showing Meconopsis napaulensis flowers, fruit, seeds, and leaves.
Meconopsis napaulensis, also known as Nepal poppy, is a plant of the family Papaveraceae native to Asia.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/angel-death/ | Profile view of a man's face with wing-like protuberances on the forehead | Horton, William Thomas | 1864 | 1919 | [
"UK"
] | A book of images | [
"Yeats, William Butler"
] | [
"The Unicorn Press"
] | 1898 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7039068M/A_book_of_images | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"eerie",
"portrait",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/bookofimages00hortrich"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Angel of Death | The angel of Death. | Profile view of a man’s face with wing-like protuberances on the forehead, which blend in with his hair as the feathers reach the side of his head.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/carpet-gold/ | Carpet of gold | Houghton, Arthur Boyd | 1836 | 1875 | [
"UK"
] | Once a week, vol. 13 (June-December 1865) | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Bradbury & Evans"
] | 1865 | nan | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"fantasy",
"flying",
"Once a week",
"periodical",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/onceweek13londuoft"
] | Narratives | Square | [
"Swain, Joseph"
] | Carpet of Gold | The carpet of gold floated on. | A bearded man wearing a headband travels on a flying carpet, looking lost in his thoughts, as birds accompany him.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/reflected-faun/ | A faun looks at his reflection in the water, which shows him kissing a woman | Housman, Laurence | 1865 | 1959 | [
"UK"
] | The yellow book, vol. 1 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Copeland & Day",
"Elkin Mathews & John Lane"
] | 1894 | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"Art Nouveau",
"black & white",
"mythology",
"Victorian",
"Yellow book"
] | [
"The Ryerson University Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://library.ryerson.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/yellowapril189401uoft"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Hentschel, Carl"
] | Reflected Faun | The reflected faun. | A faun smells the blooms of water lilies on the bank of a pond while looking at his reflection in the water, which shows him kissing a woman.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tailpiece-korbes/ | Tailpiece for the tale Mr. Korbes showing a farcical figure with a clownish wig | Crane, Walter | 1845 | 1915 | [
"UK"
] | Household stories from the collection of the bros. Grimm | [
"Brothers Grimm"
] | [
"Macmillan and Co."
] | 1914 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7193466M/Household_stories_from_the_collection_of_the_bros._Grimm | [
"1910s",
"20th century",
"black & white",
"children's book",
"fairy tale",
"Grimm's fairy tales"
] | [
"The New York Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.nypl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/householdstories00grim2"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | Tailpiece with Farcical Figure | Tailpiece with farcical figure. | Tailpiece for the tale “Mr. Korbes” showing a farcical figure, wearing a millstone around his neck and a clownish wig, emblazoned amid animals such as a cat, a duck, and a rooster.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hut/ | Hut | Huet, Paul | 1803 | 1869 | [
"France"
] | Paul et Virginie | [
"Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri"
] | [
"Léon Curmer"
] | 1838 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23161036M/Paul_et_Virginie | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"cliff",
"foliage"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/pauletvirgi00sain"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Williams, Mary Ann"
] | Tropical Garden | The pariah's garden at dawn. | A thatched hut can only just be distinguished amid the wilderness of tropical vegetation.
The caption reads in the original French: Le jardin du paria au lever du soleil.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/price-wife/ | A woman hands out a purse to her baffled husband as a prelate sits in the background | Hughes, Edward Robert | 1851 | 1914 | [
"UK"
] | The Novellino of Masuccio, vol. 1 | [
"Masuccio, Salernitano"
] | [
"Lawrence and Bullen"
] | 1895 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL21880031M/The_Novellinoof_Masuccio | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"clerical",
"couple",
"money",
"Victorian"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/novellinoofmasuc01masu"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | The Price of a Wife | The price of a wife. | A woman hands out a purse to her baffled husband while a prelate sits at a table in the background.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bramshill/ | Bramshill House | Hulme, Frederick William | 1816 | 1884 | [
"UK"
] | The baronial halls, and ancient picturesque edifices of England, vol. 2 | [
"Hall, Samuel Carter"
] | [
"Willis and Sotheran"
] | 1858 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:baronialhallsanc02halluoft/The_baronial_halls_and_ancient_picturesque_edifices_of_England._From_drawings_by_J.D._Harding_G._Cat | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"color",
"Europe",
"mansion",
"oriel",
"The baronial halls...",
"UK",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/baronialhallsanc02halluoft"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [
"M. & N. Hanhart",
"Walton, W. L."
] | Bramshill House | Bramshill, Hampshire. | View of the south entrance of Bramshill House, with its overhanging oriel window. The building dates from the seventeenth century and the times of James I.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/program-theatre-libre/ | Interior view of a café with a waiter standing and three men sitting at tables reading newspapers | Ibels, Henri-Gabriel | 1867 | 1936 | [
"France"
] | Les menus & programmes illustrés | [
"Maillard, Léon"
] | [
"G. Boudet"
] | 1898 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24343643M/Les_menus_programmes_illustr%C3%A9s | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"color",
"male",
"reading",
"theater"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmenusprogramm00mail"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [] | Theater Program for the Théâtre Libre | Theater program for the Théâtre Libre, eighth show of the season 1892-1893. | Interior view of a café with red upholstered seats where a waiter is standing and three men are sitting at tables reading newspapers.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/aeschynanthus-bracteatus/ | Botanical plate showing a branch of Aeschynanthus bracteatus with flowers and leaves | Fitch, Walter Hood | 1817 | 1892 | [
"UK"
] | Illustrations of Himalayan plants | [
"Hooker, Joseph Dalton"
] | [
"Lovell Reeve"
] | 1855 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25455713M/Illustrations_of_Himalayan_plants | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"Asia",
"color",
"flower",
"Gesneriaceae",
"red",
"reference book",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Missouri Botanical Garden Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.mobot.org/mobot/molib",
"https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003414270"
] | Plants | Portrait (taller) | [
"Fitch, Walter Hood"
] | Aeschynanthus bracteatus | Aeschynanthus peelii, H.f. & T. | Botanical plate showing a branch of Aeschynanthus bracteatus with flowers and leaves.
Aeschynanthus bracteatus, also known as lipstick vine, is a plant in the family Gesneriaceae native to Asia. It is grown for its decorative bright red calyces.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/half-title-skeleton/ | The Skeleton in Armor - Half-Title | Ipsen, Ludvig Sandöe | nan | nan | [] | The skeleton in armor | [
"Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth"
] | [
"James R. Osgood & Co."
] | 1877 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7025138M/The_skeleton_in_armor | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"interlacing",
"Norse"
] | [
"California Digital Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.cdlib.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/skeletoninarmor00longrich"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [
"Anthony, Andrew Varick Stout"
] | The Skeleton in Armor – Half Title | Illustrated half title of | Half title page illustrated with interlacings and viking ornaments forming a sepia background to the black type of the title.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/meudon-fiddler/ | A man sitting on a rock plays the violin in the night while creatures dance in the woods | Jacque, Charles-Émile | 1813 | 1894 | [
"France"
] | Œuvres complètes de Béranger, vol. 2 | [
"Béranger, Pierre-Jean de"
] | [
"Perrotin"
] | 1847 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7214129M/The_blue_bird | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"death",
"eerie",
"music",
"supernatural",
"woodland"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/oeuvrescompl02br"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Aubert, Eugène",
"Frilley, Jean-Jacques"
] | The Fiddler | The Meudon fiddler. | Illustration for a song, showing a man with a feathered hat sitting on a rock in the woods and playing the violin in the night while ghostly creatures dance a sort of farandole in the background. Additional motifs related to verses of the song can be seen above and below the main illustration.
The original title of the song reads: Le ménétrier de Meudon.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cour-miracles/ | Cour des miracles | Jacques | nan | nan | [
"France"
] | Notre-Dame de Paris | [
"Hugo, Victor"
] | [
"Perrotin"
] | 1844 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24211750M/Notre-Dame_de_Paris | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"crowd",
"fire",
"medieval",
"night",
"timber-framed"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/notredamedepar00hugo"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Beyer, Eugène"
] | Cour des Miracles | Cour des miracles. | Night scene showing a square filled with a ragged crowd of beggars and cripples who drink, cook and talk on a background of half-timbered houses.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/palace-mughal-emperor/ | Palace of the Mughal Emperor | Jacques, Nicolas | 1780 | 1844 | [
"France"
] | Paul et Virginie | [
"Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri"
] | [
"Léon Curmer"
] | 1838 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23161036M/Paul_et_Virginie | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"Asia",
"black & white",
"night",
"palace"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/pauletvirgi00sain"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [
"Williams, Thomas"
] | Palace of the Mughal Emperor | Palace of the Mughal emperor. | At night, the walls and towers of an Oriental palace are illuminated by the fires of a camp put up on an open square.
The caption reads in the original French: Le palais du grand mogol.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/oscillating-steam-engine/ | Oscillating steam engine | Jahandier, Albert | nan | nan | [
"France"
] | La vapeur | [
"Guillemin, Amédée"
] | [
"Hachette"
] | 1876 | https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7560084W/La_vapeur | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"industrial",
"machine",
"mechanics",
"reference book",
"steam"
] | [] | [] | Science & technology | Portrait (taller) | [
"Laplante, Charles"
] | Oscillating Steam Engine | Oscillating steam engine. | In an oscillating steam engine, the cylinder itself is used as a steam valve. Transmission occurs without the need for connecting rods since the piston rod is linked directly to the crank of the driving shaft. These characteristics make this type of engine fairly easy to build.
In 1876, the author of the book was already stating that it wasn’t very much used in industry anymore, and he mentioned small steamboats as still relying on it. Today we could mention toy steam engines, which are often built according to this design.
The caption reads in the original French: Machine à vapeur à cylindre oscillant.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/orator/ | Orator addressing his audience | Johannot, Tony | 1803 | 1852 | [
"France"
] | Jérôme Paturot à la recherche de la meilleure des républiques | [
"Reybaud, Louis"
] | [
"Michel Lévy Frères"
] | 1849 | nan | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"book",
"lecture",
"male",
"performance",
"talking"
] | [] | [] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Orator Addressing his Audience | The pontiff was standing at the platform, pouring his words over a moved and attentive audience. | Humorous and unflattering portrayal of Étienne Cabet as an orator wearing a gown and a headdress decorated with a crown of oak leaves. He is giving a lecture, his right hand resting on his book, titled Voyage en Icarie, as he shows his listeners a small object he holds between the thumb and forefinger of his left hand. A couple of pictures of Icaria can be seen in the background.
Étienne Cabet was a French journalist and founder of the Icarians, a utopist movement which attempted to established egalitarian communes in the United States.
The caption reads in the original French: Le pontife était à la tribune, versant les flots de sa parole sur un auditoire ému et attentif.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/farmers-yard/ | A child in a courtyard is reclining against a tree and holding a baby in his lap | Millet, Jean-François | 1814 | 1875 | [
"France"
] | J.-F. Millet : souvenirs de Barbizon | [
"Piedagnel, Alexandre"
] | [
"Vve A. Cadart"
] | 1876 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6933384M/J.-F._Millet_souvenirs_de_Barbizon | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"child",
"rural"
] | [
"The Boston Public Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.bpl.org/",
"https://archive.org/details/jfmilletsouvenir00pied"
] | People | Landscape (wider) | [
"Piguet, Rodolphe"
] | Farmer’s Yard | The farmer's yard. | A child in a courtyard is sitting on the ground, reclining at the foot of a tree while holding a baby in his lap.
The caption reads in the original French: Le jardin de paysan.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/mars-venus/ | A woman is reclining on a meridienne as a man in uniform sitting beside her strokes her cat | Job (Onfroy de Bréville, Jacques Marie Gaston) | 1858 | 1931 | [
"France"
] | Les menus & programmes illustrés | [
"Maillard, Léon"
] | [
"G. Boudet"
] | 1898 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24343643M/Les_menus_programmes_illustr%C3%A9s | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"cat",
"color",
"costume",
"leaflet",
"military",
"mixed genders"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/lesmenusprogramm00mail"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Ducourtioux"
] | Mars and Venus—Costume Ball Invitation | Costume ball invitation, ca. 1895. | A woman is reclining on a meridienne while a man in uniform sitting at the other end strokes the cat she has in her lap.
This is an invitation for a costume ball given by the Prince de la Moskowa some time between 1895 and 1898.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/men-smoking-cigar/ | Men relaxing in the lounge | Job-Vernet, Léon | 1830 | ? | [
"France"
] | L'Illustration | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Dubochet et Cie"
] | 1857 | nan | [
"1850s",
"19th century",
"Americas",
"black & white",
"carefree",
"leisure",
"male",
"North America",
"periodical",
"reading",
"smoking",
"US"
] | [] | [] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [] | Men Relaxing in the Lounge | Sunday rest: in the rocking chair. | Three men relax in a lounge, smoking cigars and drinking liquor with their feet up on a table. This illustration is part of a series on life in the United States.
The caption reads in the original French: Le repos du dimanche : en rocking chair.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/woman-bonnet/ | Elder Woman with Bonnet | Johannot, Tony | 1803 | 1852 | [
"France"
] | Mes prisons | [
"Pellico, Silvio"
] | [
"Charpentier"
] | 1843 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL16018418M/Mes_prisons | [
"1840s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"hat",
"portrait"
] | [] | [] | People | Portrait (taller) | [] | Older Woman with Bonnet | Older woman with bonnet. | An older woman is wearing a bonnet and sitting on a chair while looking in the distance, somewhere beyond the viewer’s shoulder.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/mer-glace/ | View of the glacier of the Mer de Glace showing icy peaks with ripple marks | Johnson, Cyrus | 1848 | 1925 | [
"UK"
] | Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69 | [
"Whymper, Edward"
] | [
"John Murray"
] | 1871 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6941512M/Scrambles_amongst_the_Alps_in_the_years_1860-69 | [
"1870s",
"19th century",
"Alps",
"black & white",
"Europe",
"mountain",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Harold B. Lee Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://lib.byu.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/scramblesamongst00whym"
] | Landscapes & places | Portrait (taller) | [
"Whymper, Edward",
"Whymper, Josiah Wood"
] | On the Mer de Glace | On the Mer de Glace. | View of the glacier of the Mer de Glace showing icy peaks with ripple marks on the surface of the ice.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/little-colorado-river/ | View of the Grand Falls on the Little Colorado River, Arizona | Joliet, Auguste | 1839 | 1915 | [
"France"
] | Voyage pittoresque dans les grands déserts du Nouveau Monde | [
"Domenech, Emmanuel"
] | [
"Morizot"
] | 1862 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6930793M/Voyage_pittoresque_dans_les_grands_de?serts_du_Nouveau_monde | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"Americas",
"color",
"North America",
"river",
"US",
"waterfall"
] | [
"The Library of Congress",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.loc.gov/",
"https://archive.org/details/voyagepittoresqu00dome"
] | Landscapes & places | Landscape (wider) | [
"Joliet, Auguste"
] | Grand Falls of the Little Colorado River | Falls of the Colorado Chiquito. | View of the Grand Falls on the Little Colorado River, Arizona.
The caption reads in the original French: Chutes du petit Colorado.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cassandra/ | A group of women watche in dismay the city of Troy burn on the opposite shore | Jones, George | 1786 | 1869 | [
"UK"
] | The gift | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Thomas Nelson and Sons"
] | 1866 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7024983M/The_gift | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"female",
"fire",
"moon",
"mythology",
"night",
"ship",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/giftbookoftalesa00unknuoft"
] | Narratives | Landscape (wider) | [
"Edwards, J. C."
] | Cassandra | Cassandra. | A group of women is assembled at night on a wharf and watches in dismay the city of Troy burn on the opposite shore as a ship approaches.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/written-all/ | There Written, All | Jones, Owen | 1809 | 1874 | [
"UK"
] | Paradise and the Peri | [
"Moore, Thomas"
] | [
"Day & Son"
] | n.d. [1860?] | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6539682M/Paradise_and_the_Peri | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"color",
"geometric",
"Victorian"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/paradiseperi00moor"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [] | There Written, All | Black as the damning drops that fall | Illuminated page with geometric, Islamic-style borders encasing a smaller frame with text on a gold background.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/greenaway-almanack-cover/ | Cover for Kate Greenaway's almanac for 1893 | Greenaway, Kate | 1846 | 1901 | [
"UK"
] | Kate Greenaway's almanack for 1893 | [
"Anonymous"
] | [
"George Routledge and Sons"
] | n.d. [1892?] | nan | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"almanac",
"child",
"children's book",
"color",
"cover",
"female",
"flower",
"Victorian"
] | [
"St. Michael's College Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://stmikes.utoronto.ca/kelly/",
"https://archive.org/details/1893almanack00londuoft"
] | Narratives | Portrait (taller) | [
"Evans, Edmund"
] | Kate Greenaway’s Almanack for 1893—Cover | Front cover of "Kate Greenaway's almanac for 1893." | Two little girls are holding hands, one carrying a basket, the other a bunch of flowers.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/discords/ | Floral design with three large flowers and sinuous stems embellished with dentate leaves | Beardsley, Aubrey | 1872 | 1898 | [
"UK"
] | Keynotes series of novels and short stories | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"John Lane"
] | 1896 | https://openlibrary.org/books/ia:keynotesseriesof00bear/Keynotes_series_of_novels_and_short_stories | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"Art Nouveau",
"black & white",
"floral",
"flower",
"promotional",
"Victorian"
] | [
"The Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/keynotesseriesof00bear"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Landscape (wider) | [] | Floral Design with Curvy Stems and Leaves | Floral design with sinuous stems and dentate leaves. | Floral design showing three large flowers spreading out their corollas at the end of sinuous stems embellished with curvy, dentate leaves. Title page decoration for Discords, a collection of short stories by George Egerton. Read more about Keynotes Series of Novels and Short Stories on this page.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/dilemma/ | A Dilemma | Keene, Charles | 1823 | 1891 | [
"UK"
] | Punch, vol. 52 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Punch Publications Ltd"
] | 1867 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7119899M/Punch. | [
"1860s",
"19th century",
"black & white",
"night",
"periodical",
"Punch",
"transportation",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Harold B. Lee Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://lib.byu.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/punch52lemo"
] | Humor | Landscape (wider) | [] | A Dilemma | A dilemma. | A cab driver tries to explain a confusing situation to a policeman. The caption goes on:
Cabby: “Ere’s a go, p’liceman! What am I to do?—I vos ordered to take these ‘ere gents as ‘a been dinin’ you see, to their ‘spectable ‘omes, vun vos for ‘Anover Square, another for the Halbany, and the tothers elseveres—vell, they vos all carefully sorted ven I started, an’ now they’ve been an’ gone an’ mixed the’rselves up an’ I don’t know vich is vich!!”
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/white-fury/ | He left the house, white with fury | Kerr, Charles Henry Malcolm | 1858 | 1907 | [
"UK"
] | The witch's head | [
"Haggard, Henry Rider"
] | [
"Spencer Blackett"
] | n.d. (after 1893) | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24336517M/The_witch's_head. | [
"19th century",
"anger",
"black & white",
"walking"
] | [
"Robarts Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/witchshead00hagg"
] | People | Portrait (taller) | [
"Boussod, Valadon et Cie"
] | White with Fury | Mr. Plowden left the house, white with fury. | A man walks away from a house taking long strides and gesturing angrily.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/eurasian-hobby/ | nan | Keulemans, John Gerrard | 1842 | 1912 | [
"Netherlands"
] | Coloured figures of the birds of the British islands, vol. 1 | [
"Powys, Thomas 4th Baron Lilford (issued by)"
] | [
"R. H. Porter"
] | 1885-1897 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24627758M/Coloured_figures_of_the_birds_of_the_British_Islands_issued_by_Lord_Lilford | [
"19th century",
"bird",
"color",
"Coloured figures of the birds...",
"Falconidae",
"raptor",
"reference book",
"Victorian"
] | [
"Biodiversity Heritage Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/50689",
"https://archive.org/details/colouredfigureso01lilf"
] | Animals | Portrait (taller) | [
"Greve, Wilhelm"
] | Eurasian Hobby | Hobby (adult). | The Eurasian hobby (Falco subbuteo) is a migratory bird wintering in Africa or southern Asia. It lives in open, yet wooded areas, as it needs to nest in trees. It feeds mostly on insects.
| |||
null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/end-paper-kokoro/ | Illustrated end paper from Kokoro showing birds flying with flowers in their beaks | Orlik, Emil | 1870 | 1932 | [
"Austria-Hungary",
"Germany"
] | Kokoro | [
"Hearn, Lafcadio"
] | [
"Rütten & Loening"
] | 1905 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23308246M/Kokoro | [
"1900s",
"20th century",
"bird",
"black & white",
"flying"
] | [
"University of California Libraries",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/kokorohear00hear"
] | Ornaments & patterns | Portrait (taller) | [] | Kokoro—End Paper | End paper from "Kokoro." | Illustrated end paper From Kokoro showing birds (peacocks?) flying with flowers in their beaks drawn in the fashion of Asian traditional Art. The page is further decorated with gold leaf.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/jaguar-tapir/ | Jaguar pounces on tapir | Kuhnert, Wilhelm | 1865 | 1926 | [
"Germany"
] | Brehms Tierleben, vol. 1 | [
"Brehm, Alfred Edmund"
] | [
"Bibliographisches Institut"
] | 1893 | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24473096M/Brehms_Tierleben | [
"1890s",
"19th century",
"Brehms Tierleben",
"cat",
"color",
"Felidae",
"hunting",
"mammal",
"reference book"
] | [
"University of Illinois Library",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.library.illinois.edu/",
"https://archive.org/details/brehmstierlebena001breh"
] | Animals | Landscape (wider) | [] | Jaguar Pounces on Tapir | Jaguar. | A jaguar pounces on a tapir, biting its neck, clawing its back, and bringing it to the ground. The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a South-American big cat whose behavior and habitat can be compared to that of the tiger. The tapir is the largest prey in its range.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/cant-get-in/ | You can't get in | Devéria, Achille | 1800 | 1857 | [
"France"
] | La Caricature, vol. 1 | [
"Collective work"
] | [
"Aubert"
] | 1831 | nan | [
"1830s",
"19th century",
"Aubert",
"color",
"flap-up",
"La caricature",
"periodical"
] | [
"the Getty Research Institute",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/",
"https://archive.org/details/gri_caricaturexx01aube"
] | Humor | Portrait (taller) | [] | You Can’t Get In | You can't get in. | A maid is keeping watch at the door behind which her mistress is undressing. This picture shows the initial state of a flap-up illustration, the second state with the flap lifted shows the mistress undressing.
The caption reads in the original French: On n’entre pas.
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null | null | https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/train-bay-florida/ | Perspective view of an arched railway bridge over the sea with a steam train coming forward | Lacy, Charles John de | 1856 | ca. 1930 | [
"UK"
] | Engineering wonders of the world, vol. 1 | [
"Williams, Archibald (editor)"
] | [
"Thomas Nelson and Sons"
] | n.d. | https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23297504M/Engineering_wonders_of_the_world. | [
"boat",
"bridge",
"color",
"seascape",
"train",
"US"
] | [
"Gerstein Science Information Centre",
"the Internet Archive"
] | [
"http://gerstein.library.utoronto.ca/",
"https://archive.org/details/engineeringwonde01willuoft"
] | Buildings & monuments | Portrait (taller) | [] | Train Crossing the Bay of Florida | A train crossing the Bay of Florida. | Spectacular perspective view of an arched railway bridge over the sea with a steam train coming forward and a small boat in the foreground.
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