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This 1922 painting by Annie Swynnerton shows Henry James from the waist up, turned to the left. He appears as a mature, bald man dressed in a high-collared white shirt, a dark necktie or cravat, and a black coat or waistcoat.
Langston Hughes at Tuskegee Institute with Jessie Fauset (left) and Zora Neale Hurston, 1927. Langston Hughes stands with writers Jessie Fauset (left) and Zora Neale Hurston (right) at Tuskegee Institute, in front of the Booker T. Washington statue, one year after Hughes published his first book. Black-and-white photo, all three dressed formally.
We see Pooh, still hanging from the balloon, nose to nose with some bees. Title: Winnie-the-Pooh Author: A. A. Milne Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard
In this black-and-white photograph by Otto Sarony, Evelyn Nesbit is young and smiling. Her long, dark, wavy hair falls over her right shoulder. She poses with her left arm raised above her head and her right hand resting behind her neck, showing a bracelet on her right wrist. A sheer white mesh is draped loosely over her shoulders and torso.
Engraving of American writer Charles Brockden Brown. From The Life of Charles Brockden Brown by William Dunlap. Published by James P. Parke, 1815. This is an engraving portrait of Charles Brockden Brown, an early American novelist, shown wearing early 19th-century formal attire with a large white cravat and dark coat, set against a draped curtain background.
Abelard and Héloïse in a manuscript of the Roman de la Rose (14th century). It is showing a man in a pink/orange robe kneeling and gesturing toward a woman in black nun's habit, both with raised hands in a conversational or devotional pose, set against a decorative patterned background with fleur-de-lis motifs.
This black-and-white photograph shows Elizabeth Van Lew facing left. Her dark hair is styled in ringlet curls around her forehead and temple. She wears a dark, long-sleeved dress with decorations on the bodice and cuffs. She leans against a dark, fabric-covered chair with small metallic studs along the top.
A pixel does not need to be rendered as a small square. This image shows alternative ways of reconstructing an image from a set of pixel values, using dots, lines, or smooth filtering. Three panels showing image reconstruction/rendering at increasing resolution: (left) a coarse dotted/pixelated pattern of a "Z"-like shape, (middle) a finer striped/dithered version, (right) a smooth, high-resolution photo-like curve — illustrating progressive image reconstruction from low to high pixel density.
First-edition cover of The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by the American author J. D. Salinger. IThis cover is featuring a stylized red carousel horse illustration against a city skyline, with bold red and cream coloring.
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) appears from the chest up in the photograph. He leans slightly to the right, resting his head on his right hand. His hair is short, wavy, and parted in the middle, with a handlebar mustache. He wears a dark, textured three-piece suit with a vest and matching jacket. Underneath, he has a white dress shirt with a tall wing collar. His dark necktie is held by a decorative stickpin just below the collar.
A painting by Jacques-Louis David of French socialite and Neoclassical icon Madame Récamier whose salon in Paris attracted leading literary and political circles in the early 19th-century. A famous 1800 portrait of Madame Récamier, reclining on a Neoclassical daybed in a simple white empire-waist gown, with a bronze floor lamp beside her.
Hemingway´s wood-cut from portrait by henry strater. Title: In our time Author: Ernest Hemingway Editor: Ezra Pound Illustrator: Henry Strater A stylized woodcut portrait of a bearded man, rendered with bold cross-hatching and line textures
This is the George Peabody Library at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. The photo shows four balconies with white columns and detailed railings. In one of the recesses, there are lights and bookshelves filled with books.
Illustration of Myosotis capitata in Flora Antarctica. Drawn and engraved by Walter Hood Fitch, 1844. A botanical illustration showing the full plant with its rosette of silvery-green leaves and clusters of small purple flowers, roots, and detailed close-up dissections of an individual flower, seeds, and floral structures below.
Figure Bearing a Winged Head (1876) by Odilon Redon. A figure in a blue tunic stands on a hilltop reaching toward a large, dreamlike floating head with wing-like extensions, set against a glowing golden-and-teal luminous background.
Eliza comes to tell Uncle Tom that he is sold, and that she is running away to save her child. Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe A 19th-century engraving depicting a rural scene: a woman in a shawl carrying an infant walks with a dog beside her, encountering two men on a path near a hedgerow. One man appears to be blowing or playing something held in cupped hands, while the other gestures toward her. A house is visible in the distant background.
Frontispiece showing Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (seated opposite Theodoric), fol. 2r of Leiden ms. vul. 46 (Gesta Theodorici), Manuscript on vellum. 186 ff., 220 x 125 mm. Fulda, dated 1176/7. A medieval manuscript illustration labeled "Cassiodor. Senator" showing Cassiodorus seated on an ornate throne, wearing a cap and cloak, holding an open book inscribed with Latin text, with one hand raised in a gesture of instruction or address.
This picture shows Pit 1 of the Terracotta Army at the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in Xi'an, China. Hundreds of life-size clay statues stand in rows. Each soldier has a unique face, hairstyle, and armor.
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, c. 1943 Unknown author - This photograph HU 74868 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Hon. Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan (code name Madeleine), George Cross, MiD, Croix de Guerre avec Etoile de Vermeil. Noor Inayat Khan served as a wireless operator with F Section, Special Operations Executive. A black-and-white photographic portrait of Noor Inayat Khan in Royal Air Force / WAAF uniform, wearing a peaked cap with insignia, tie, and jacket with buttons
Title page, Poems Upon Several Occasions (1748) by Mary Leapor (1722-1746) The title page of "Poems Upon Several Occasions" by Mrs. Leapor (Mary Leapor) of Brackley, Northamptonshire, printed in London by J. Roberts in 1748 (MDCCXLVIII), featuring an ornamental floral engraving between the author line and imprint.
Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachusetts, is now a museum. The building features Federal-style or Greek Revival architecture and is made of yellow brick. Its windows have dark green wooden shutters, and three narrow arched windows sit at the top. The front porch is covered and supported by white columns, while a second porch is on the right side. Two light-colored chimneys rise from the roof. The house stands on a grassy lawn with trees behind it.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa Although it is often used in tsunami literature, there is no reason to suspect that Hokusai intended it to be interpreted in that way. The waves in this work are sometimes mistakenly referred to as tsunami (津波), but they are more accurately called okinami (沖波), great off-shore waves. Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodblock print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" — a towering, claw-like blue wave dominates the foreground, threatening three narrow boats and their crews, while a small, snow-capped Mount Fuji is visible in the distance beneath a pale sky.
Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory, where radium was discovered. Henri Manuel, Paris. Two men in dark suits stand behind a bench covered with scientific apparatus (glass tubes, bottles, and measuring instruments), while a woman in a white blouse sits at the table on the right, observing.
Paul Klee’s 1922 oil painting "Red Balloon" shows a bright red, round balloon floating near the top center of the canvas. Surrounding it are squares, rectangles, triangles, and arches. These colorful shapes seem to be a city street. In the bottom left corner, a dark green triangle forms the ground. The painting combines soft colors with bold primary colors.
Sketch of Sartre for The New York Times by Reginald Gray, 1965 A pen-and-ink newspaper portrait sketch of Jean-Paul Sartre by Reginald V. Gray, published in The New York Times, showing the philosopher's face with his characteristic glasses in a loose, cross-hatched drawing style.
“SHE SAW A WHOLE TROOP OF SPRIGGANS HOLDING AN ELFIN FAIR” Title: The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading Author: Frances Jenkins Olcott Illustrator: Milo Winter A fairy-tale illustration by Milo Winter showing a tall witch-like old woman in a black top hat, plaid shawl, and red cloak with a basket on her arm, bending down to greet a group of tiny, elegantly dressed courtly figures gathered around a ribboned maypole amid tulips and toadstools.
This black-and-white photo shows a Colt “Peacemaker.” The long, round barrel points to the left. In the center, you can see the fluted revolving cylinder. The hammer is down at the back, above a curved trigger inside a rounded guard. The grip is smooth, dark, and curves upward.
15th-century manuscript of Book I written by scribe John Rhosos (British Museum) A manuscript page opening Homer's "Odyssey" in Greek, featuring an illuminated initial "A" (for "Ἄνδρα," the poem's first word) decorated with gold leaf, blue and red flowers, green leaves, and a small human face motif. The Greek text is written in a cursive hand, with red annotations (scholia) in the margins.
Diego de Landa's Maya alphabet was an early attempt at decipherment. A printed page reproducing "Diego de Landa's Maya Alphabet" — 27 numbered glyph signs arranged in three columns, each paired with its corresponding phonetic value (a, b, e, k, m, n, o, u, etc.), from a 19th-century American history textbook.
The Football Association poster features a young man with brown hair, seen from the side, running and about to kick a ball. He wears a dark blue long-sleeved jersey, white shorts, red knee-high socks, and brown leather cleats. Football - Association - 1930 - National Library of France, France - No Copyright - Other Known Legal Restrictions.
First-edition dust jacket cover of East of Eden (1952) by the American author John Steinbeck. The 1952 first edition dust jacket of John Steinbeck's "East of Eden," featuring bold purple serif type on a blue-to-cream gradient sky, with an illustrated Salinas Valley landscape of rolling hills, farmland, and a winding river at the bottom.
The Death of Cleopatra Edmonia Lewis - Self-photographed, Caroline Léna Becker A marble sculpture titled "The Death of Cleopatra" by American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, depicting Cleopatra seated on a throne wearing a headdress, robes, and a serpent bracelet, her head tilted back at the moment of death. The ornate throne features carved sphinx heads on either armrest, and an inscription is visible on the base.
In Federico Zandomeneghi's painting "Girl reading a book," a young girl with bright red hair is shown in profile, looking to the left. She is holding an open book and wears a light blue dress with a ruffled collar. The background is filled with warm shades of orange, red, and soft yellow.
The title page of the 1848 first edition of Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. William Makepeace Thackeray (author/artist) - Houghton Library The banner-style title hangs between two poles at the top, and below it an illustration shows a jester or fool-like figure reclining on the ground, holding up a mirror, with a town skyline in the background.
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749), mathématicienne, femme de lettres et physicienne française. Anonyme, graveur Loir, Marianne (Paris, vers 1715 - en 1769), auteur du modèle Chéreau, Jacques-Simon fils (veuve) (avant 1770 - vers 1820), marchand d'estampes An 18th-century engraved portrait of Émilie du Châtelet, shown in an oval frame with an armillary sphere beside her. Below the portrait is an inscribed pedestal with her name and titles, flanked by a coat of arms.
A cover of the book "Denslow's Humpty Dumpty," adapted and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. G. W. Dillingham Co., Publishers, New York. A large, egg-shaped Humpty Dumpty character stands in a dancing pose. He has clown-like red facial markings, a joyful expression, and wears a small, pointed white hat with a red brim. His body is covered in a white-and-red polka-dot pattern. He dances on a wall made partly of bricks.
A print of the Foucault Pendulum, 1895 T. O'Conor Sloane - Facts Worth Knowing Selected Mainly from the Scientific American for Household, Workshop, and Farm Embracing Practical and Useful Information for Every Branch of Industry. An old engraving illustrating a Foucault pendulum: a large sphere hangs from a tripod of cords, swinging above a compass-like dial marked with directional letters (N, S visible), used to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. Faint dashed arcs show the pendulum's swing path, and multiple overlapping outlines suggest its motion over time.
The eight phases of the Song of Roland in one picture; illustration by Simon Marmion from an illuminated manuscript of the Grandes Chroniques de France (15th century), currently preserved in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. A crowded mass of armored knights clashes in the center-left foreground; nobles and clergy watch near a city gate at bottom left; a small chapel with clerics reading sits at bottom right; mounted courtiers and falconers appear at top right; and dark, symbolic cloud shapes with faint winged figures frame the upper corners. Rolling hills and a distant town fill the background.
"Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso" (1782) by Angelica Kauffman. "The work depicts the arrival of Telemachus on Ogygia, Calypso's island. He is welcomed by her nymphs with fruit, wine and flowers. The goddess Athena had been his guide, disguised as the old man Mentor, and is shown being led away to the left by one of the nymphs" - Wikipedia
Illustration from THE LILAC FAIRY BOOK by Andrew Lang. A colored fantasy illustration depicting a long-haired woman in flowing green robes dancing or swaying among a swirl of sea creatures — crabs, eels, and fish — while a red-haired boy plays bagpipes on the rocky shore behind her.
Image from the book Kim, by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by J. L. Kipling. A photographic reproduction of a bas-relief sculpture depicting two figures — an elderly robed lama wearing beads and a distinctive hat, with a younger figure behind him — set within an ornate decorative floral border, captioned "Kim & the Lama" in the upper left.
In the photograph, Elizabeth Gaskell sits in an ornate chair with books next to her. She is dressed in a dark, vertically striped Victorian dress with a white collar. A large, patterned paisley shawl covers her arms and lap, and a round brooch or locket is pinned at the center of her bodice.
Photograph of J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1920s on leaving Leeds University. A black-and-white portrait photograph of a young man with neatly combed short hair, wearing a tweed jacket and white collar, gazing thoughtfully to one side against a dark background.
Haydn or Hofmann? Portrait of Franz Joseph Haydn (1770). An 18th-century oil portrait of a middle-aged man with powdered white hair, wearing a dark coat with a white cravat, holding a quill pen and gazing thoughtfully to the side.
This is a photo of Ernest Hemingway from 1916, showing him from the waist up. He wears a dark suit jacket, a white shirt with a collar, and a tie. His short dark hair is neatly combed, and he looks serious.
JULIA WARD HOWE From a photograph by J. J. Hawes, about 1861. A black-and-white portrait photograph of Julia Ward Howe with a dark lace or fabric veil draped over her head, wearing a striped garment.
The whale or Moby Dick (half-title page), Herman Melville, 1851. The title page of the first British edition of Herman Melville's novel, published under the title "The Whale" in three volumes (Vol. I shown), by Richard Bentley of London in 1851, bearing a Mitchell Library stamp and an epigraph from Milton's "Paradise Lost" describing the leviathan.
This 1894 photograph shows Lincoln Steffens in a head-and-shoulders portrait, turned a bit to his right. His thick, wavy dark hair is brushed back from his forehead. He has a handlebar mustache and a pointed goatee. He wears a dark formal suit with wide lapels, a white shirt with a wing-tipped collar, and a dark bowtie.
The Project Gutenberg logo, featuring the organization's name in a decorative medieval-style typeface with gold and black lettering, alongside a detailed engraving of a historical printing press on a pale blue background.
"He was therefore, feasted and invited to all the court parties. At these he sometimes met the old Duchess of Bourbon, who, being a chess player of about his force, they very generally played together. Happening once to put her king into prize, the Doctor took it. 'Ah,' says she, 'we do not take kings so.' 'We do in America,' said the Doctor."—Thomas Jefferson A colorful period illustration depicting an elegant 18th-century court gathering in a grand chandelier-lit salon, with elaborately dressed figures in powdered wigs and embroidered gowns surrounding a simply dressed man seated at a chess board.
Fig. 7.—A monk in the scriptorium. A woodcut illustration of a medieval monk or scholar seated at a writing desk, wearing robes and a tall cap, surrounded by open books on stands and shelves, carefully writing or copying a manuscript. Title: A student's history of education Author: Frank Pierrepont Graves
The image shows Guy de Maupassant from the chest up. He has fair skin, short wavy brown hair, a large mustache, and a small soul patch below his lower lip. He looks to the right side of the frame and wears a dark patterned suit jacket, a white-collared shirt, and a wide dotted tie.
Ivy Compton-Burnett. A black-and-white portrait photograph of a young woman with short, straight hair cut in a blunt fringe, wearing drop earrings and a dark top.
Young Daphne du Maurier (about 1930). A sepia-toned portrait photograph of a young woman with a short bobbed hairstyle, wearing a pearl necklace and an embroidered top.
The original 1885 cloth book cover of the first American edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The background is dark sage green or teal textile-textured surface bordered by a thin black framing line. A vertical rectangular window on the left side shows an original line drawing by E. W. Kemble. The drawing is a full-body portrait of a young Huckleberry Finn standing with his hands in his pockets, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat, a buttoned jacket, trousers, and boots against a wooden fence backdrop. In the title the letter "H" in Huckleberry and "F" in Finn are drawn to look like rustic wooden fence posts tied with rope or wire.
Pages from a 14th-century Arabic copy of the book, showing geometric solutions to two quadratic equations. A double-page spread from a medieval Arabic manuscript, densely written in black Arabic script with red ink highlighting key terms and headings, and featuring small geometric grid diagrams with numerals in red at the bottom of each page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Jabr#/media/File:Bodleian_MS._Huntington_214_roll332_frame36.jpg
Oil painting of Nathaniel Hawthorne, painted by artist Charles Osgood. Hawthorne is young with dark curly hair. He is wearing a dark, heavy, velvety black coat or cloak wrapped over his shoulders. Around his neck is a large, meticulously tied satin black bow tie and a thick matching black cravat. A crisp white high-collared shirt peaks out from beneath the dark layers, creating a stark contrast against his black suit.
The title page of "The Great American Novel" by William Carlos Williams, published in Paris by Three Mountains Press in 1923, featuring simple typography and a small decorative publisher's emblem at the center. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63888
Title: The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America Author: Thomas Jefferson Credits: This etext was produced by Michael S. Hart. A poster-style image of the United States Declaration of Independence document centered against a patriotic red, white, and blue striped background, with the title "The Declaration of Independence" displayed in bold text at the top. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1/pg1-images.html
Gold and green fireworks in the night sky.