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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Lloyd-Familienbuch-V/pages/105-musician-on-the-wall/
A man in top hat and tails plays the flute outside a bedroom window, standing on the top of a wall. Vintage engraving ‘The Serenade” from Lloyd’s 1857 family book (Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise).
The book describes him as a dreamy youth.
From a painting by G. Neumann & engraved by Heinrich Petersen (1806-1870)
#fromOldBooks #vintageEngraving #engraving #romantic #romance #courting #courtship #love #moonlight #valentinesDay
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Morris-PicturesqueViews-Vol2/pages/033-cholmondeley-castle/
Cholmondeley Castle.
It’s pronounced “Chumley” and the same family has been living there since 1066 or so (they must be getting old by now).
The castle was built in the early 19th century, replacing an older wooden hall. Sorry, i don’t know if it has a dungeon :) The chapel (i think on the right) is much older.
#statelyHome #fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #vintageEngraving #illustration #engraving #bigHouse #countryHouse #castle #medieval #19thCentury #cholmondeley
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Fabulous engraving by Alfred Closs of an 1894 painting by the Spanish artist Manuel Ramírez Ibáñez of the 1483 funeral of don Álvaro de Luna, published in an 1895 German art magazine, Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten ...
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/pages/69-skull-on-a-stick/
#fobo #fromOldBooks #vintageArt #funerals #death #medieval #almsGiving