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All Saint's Church, Lowell. - Public domain dedication image

Public domain reproduction of illuminated manuscript page, 14th century - Picryl description.

Red - dark, Flemish - dark, blue - dark

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Blue - dark, blue - light, red - light

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#1. The Annunciation and the boy in the Temple

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Merrick Thread Co., Best Six Cord, 8.

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Jesus at the home of Mary and Martha (Mary hath chosen that good part)...

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Brookline Mass. clerestory, All Saints Church

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Be still and know that I am God, o come let us sing unto the Lord, Uni...

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Design for windows on St. William's Church. Emblems for right window.

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The Blessed Virgin, Christ the king. Marblehead, Star of the Sea Churc...

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I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. John, who bore record ...

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Wesley Church, Worcester, aisle. Motherhood, childhood, fatherhood

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Sketch - cartoon for the enrichment of an oblong window-space

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Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton Advertising - Vintage American Trade Car...

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Fragmentary notes - Public domain illuminated manuscript

Fragmentary notes; possibly of a discourse, but without much connection Courtesy of Boston Public Library

"Marg. note" - Public domain illuminated manuscript

Speaking of the gradual decay of certain races. Endorsed "Dr. Stiles." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

"Marg. note" - Public domain illuminated manuscript

Speaking of the gradual decay of certain races. Endorsed "Dr. Stiles." Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Minots Ledge off Boston Harbor : showing the proposed site of a light ...

Beneath Our Feet: Mapping of the features beneath the ocean’s surface began in Europe in the late-16th century, with cartographers using simple symbols such as soundings (numbers that indicate depth in fathoms)... More

Andreas Dippel / Opera singer / Aime Dupont atelier

Photograph of a man in a costume resembling a 16th-century courtier style. He is wearing a hat with a feather. On his torso, he is wearing a short cape and doublet with intricate embroidery. He has leather glov... More

Andreas Dippel / Opera singer / Aime Dupont atelier

British Isles - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection nautical c...

This modern navigational chart serves as a reminder that England is an island nation off the coast of Europe and that seafaring was an important activity in its history, especially since the late 16th century. ... More

North Atlantic Ocean, West Indies - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal C...

Using the latest advances in modern technology for gathering depth soundings and generating automated cartography, this chart was prepared primarily for navigational purposes, testifying to sailors' continual q... More

Thys prymer of Salisburye use is sett owght along wythowght ony serchy...

Horae beatissime Uirginis Marie secu[n]dum usum Sarum | Salysburye prymer | Salisbury primer Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Almanacke of Maister Iaspar Laet for the yere of our [Lord M.D.XXXV.]

Almanacke of Maister Jaspar Laet for the yere of our Lord M.D.XXXV | Almanac of Maister Jaspar Laet | Almanac of Maister Iaspar Laet Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A smoking club, James Gillray - Engraving, Public domain image

Pitt and Dundas, Fox and Sheridan face each other across a long narrow table, smoking long pipes and puffing clouds of smoke in each other's faces. The gallery of the House of Commons is indicated in the backgr... More

A leaf from a 17th-century account book, apparently used only as a wra...

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From an original, late in the Collection of Charles Frederick Abel Esq...

Landscape with figures binding a bundle of wood at right, cattle and sheep resting at left, hills beyond. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th c... More

Amusement for John Bull & his cousin Paddy, or, the gambols of the Ame...

A large basket of loaves and fishes lies upset in the street, probably due to the grinning American buffalo, which looks on. Ministers and would-be ministers scramble for the fallen food. Courtesy of Boston pu... More

Country characters no. 9: Exciseman, Thomas Rowlandson

Public domain image, 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known fo... More

The colonies reduced ; Its companion

Two cartoons. The upper cartoon, "The colonies reduced," shows Britannia seated with arms and legs (labeled Pennsyl, New York, New Eng, and Virg) cut off. The lower cartoon, "Its companion," shows France defend... More

Luxury, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain drawing

A leaf from a 17th-century account book, apparently used only as a wra...

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The able doctor, or American swallowing the bitter draught

The fair Indian damsel America held down by Lord Mansfield while Lord North forces tea down her throat. Boston is cannonaded in the background. Published the day after the Boston Port Bill closed Boston's port ... More

Search night - or - state watchmen mistaking honest men for conspirato...

The interior of a bare, poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof. Pitt and Dundas, as watchmen, batter down the upper timbers of a door (right) which has been strongly bolted, locked, and barricaded. Both hav... More

The times, anno 1783, James Gillray

Figures personifying England, France, Spain, and Holland represent the international situation. England (right), a John Bull, stout and plainly dressed, holds up his hands, with a melancholy expression. By his ... More

Simon & Iphigenia, Thomas Rowlandson

The Scotch butchery, Boston, 1775

Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment ... More

Horrors of the Irish-union. Botheration of poor Pat - or - a whisper a...

Britannia, buxom and beneficent, sits on one side of the "Irish Channel." On a smaller piece of ground stands Pat, his hands deep in his coat pockets, looking sideways towards Britannia. She sits with her shiel... More

Cries of London, No. 8 : Hot cross bunns, two a penny bunns

A decent woman, wearing a white apron, and with a cloth over her basket, is supplying a patroness with a plateful of hot cross buns. A pretty woman, in a neat morning dress, is buying buns, and her children by ... More

Alecto and her train at the gate of Pandoemonium - or - the recruiting...

Alecto, a fantastic hag, stands outside the Crown and Anchor tavern between a diminutive Sheridan (left), playing a fife, and Fox (right), a burly drummer, both wearing regimentals. She towers above them, holdi... More

Copy of a letter from John Cotton, Plymouth, to Rowland Cotton, Sandwi...

John Cotton mentions James Allen's mortal sickness, and gives an account of an encounter between Capt. Chubb's company and the Indians. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Evidence to character - being, a portrait of a traitor by his friends ...

Depicted is the trial of O'Connor, who confesses to making an Irish-French alliance, before the presiding judge Buller. Testifying to the character of O'Connor are various members of the opposition. Starting at... More

Traffic, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain portrait drawing

Two Jewish clothesmen are securing a parcel of cast-off garments at the door of a highly respectable mansion, whereat a buxom housemaid is disposing of her master's old apparel. In the street beyond is shown th... More

The rival candidates, Thomas Rowlandson

The three candidates who were contesting the great fight for the representation of Westminster are represented according to their supposititious characteristics. Fox, with his hand on his heart, and his arm hel... More

The political cartoon, for the year 1775

Mansfield drives an open coach carrying George III and North toward a cliff. North looks on with approval -- only Chatham and Camden try to stop the coach. Across the waters America burns. Courtesy of Boston Pu... More

The Irish baronet and his nurse!, Thomas Rowlandson

From an original late in the Collection of Charles Frederick Abel Esq'...

Landscape with figures collecting wood beside a gnarled tree, cows grazing in the fields at left. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries... More

View on the French coast, Thomas Rowlandson

Partially dismantled ships of war, canted for caulking. Courtesy of Boston Public Library Thomas Rowlandson - English caricaturist of the 18th and early 19th centuries Britain, known for his humor, caricatures... More

Grotesque borders for rooms & halls, Thomas Rowlandson

Post house, Thomas Rowlandson - Public domain scan / drawing

The new country dance, as dance at C****. July the 30th, 1766

Satire on George III's court (the king plays the fiddler). Wilkes is carried off by a witch as he relieves himself on Lord Bute. Pitt talks with a half-naked Indian representing America and the devil dances wit... More

Procession of a country corporation, Thomas Rowlandson

The Whitehall pump - A drawing of a group of people standing around a ...

Lord North pumps water into the mouth of Britannia, nearly drowning her, while her Indian daughter America lies underneath her. The pump head is shaped like George III. Fox smiles on from a window in the backgr... More

Dumourier dining in State at St. James's on the 15 May, 1793

Dumouriez (right) sits in a gothic chair (reminiscent of the Coronation chair), at the royal dinner-table. Three cooks advance towards him, wearing bonnets-rouges with tricolour cockades, aprons, and over-sleev... More

A new description of the shyres Lothian and Linlitquo

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More