Description | English: “Racing with Time,” by Harold DeLay, from an advertisement for Elgin watches. “ ‘Racing With Time,’ DeLay’s spirited painting for this month, is typical of the upward, onward urge of civilization.” |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Advertisement in Shadowland (https://archive.org/details/shadowland07brew/page/n87/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Harold S. DeLay |
Category Archives: Allegory
Dreams, by Heinrich Vogeler
Description | English: Pen drawing by Heinrich Vogeler |
Date | 1902 |
Source | Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008852077/page/n347/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Heinrich Vogeler |
Bookplate with the Temptation of Eve, by E. M. Lilien
Description | English: Bookplate by Ephraim Moses Lilien |
Date | 1899 |
Source | Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125006095190/page/94/mode/2up?q=Behrens&view=theater) |
Author | Ephraim Moses Lilien |
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Forward! by Knud Larsen
Description | English: Part of a poster for the magazine “Frem” (“Forward”), by Knud Larsen Deutsch: Plakat für die Zeitschrift „Frem“ (Fragment).Von Knud Larsen. |
Date | 1907 |
Source | Zeitschrift für Bücherfreunde (https://archive.org/details/zeitschriftfurbu1907gese/page/n27/mode/2up) |
Author | Knud Larsen |
The Aquamarine, by E. T. Parris
Description | English: The Aquamarine, by E. T. Parris |
Date | 1836 |
Source | Gems of Beauty (https://archive.org/details/GemsOfBeautyDisplayedInASeriesOfTwelveHighlyFinishedEngravingsFrom/parris-e-gems-1836-RTL003048/page/n71/mode/2up) |
Author | Edmund Thomas Parris |
The Sardonyx, by E. T. Parris
Description | English: The Sardonyx, by E. T. Parris |
Date | 1836 |
Source | Gems of Beauty (https://archive.org/details/GemsOfBeautyDisplayedInASeriesOfTwelveHighlyFinishedEngravingsFrom/parris-e-gems-1836-RTL003048/page/n65/mode/2up) |
Author | Edmund Thomas Parris |
Spring, Whatever Happens
Description | English: Allegory of spring as awakening, from a magazine page header |
Date | 1924 |
Source | The Delineator (https://archive.org/details/delineator104olou/page/n197/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Ask Mother to Explain How March Comes In like a Lion and Goes Out like a Lamb, by Robert A. Graef
Description | English: “Ask Mother to Explain How March Comes In like a Lion and Goes Out like a Lamb,” by Robert A. Graef |
Date | 1923 |
Source | The Delineator (https://archive.org/details/delineator102olou/page/n235/mode/2up) |
Author | Robert A. Graef |
Architectural Allegory of the United States
Description | English: Allegorical image of the United States, 1779, with an angel proclaiming freedom. There are thirteen columns supporting the arcade and thirteen stars in the arch, and the angel bears a Phrygian cap. |
Date | January 1779 |
Source | The United States Magazine (https://archive.org/details/sim_united-states-magazine-a-repository-of-history-politics_1779-01_1/page/4/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
The Raven, by E. H. Wehnert
Description | English: “The Raven,” by E. H. Wehnert, illustrating the poem by Poe |
Date | 1856 |
Source | The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksedg00poeeiala/page/n7/mode/2up) |
Author | E. H. Wehnert |