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"Brasilianischer Kalmar Riesenkraken ein Segelschiff ueberfallend"

Wood engravings after Denys Montfort ca 1905
July 2020 update:
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"A Javan in the Court dress"
"A Penganten Waiden or Bride"

Very fine aquatint print in original hand coloring, published in London, 1827.
Very rare!
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"Qui dois-je annoncer? - Robe de visites de Cheruit"

Whom shall I announce? - in the boutique of Louise Cheruit (1866-1955)

Chromo-lithograph by Pierre Brissaud (1885-1964)

Published in "Gazette du bon Ton"

Paris, 1914
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#Weimar, Goethe's House. Wow, all the German geniuses of the time!
Sitting with #Goethe are #Wieland, #Schiller, Herzog #KarlAugust, and Johann Gottfried #Herder.
Xylograph after Heinrich. Merte (1838-1917). Published 1879.
https://t.co/lJrZ2slfws

"Le Chien du Louvre"
This well known Paris dog refused to leave the grave of its master,
a soldier, killed in the 1830 revolution.
This is a toned lithograph after the artist Victor Adam.
It was published 1884. #NationalDogDay https://t.co/CgdriQaY28

Some antique prints related to #witches and #witchcraft.

Jesus meets devil in angelic appearance - De Jode
Original antique print 
"Victor ab infesto tentatur daemone Christus, Omnibus in Christo vincitur ille pys. Math. 4"
The temptation of Christ / Die Versuchung Christi.

Exquisite prints of Orchids
by Anton Hartinger
"Paradisus Vindobonensis" (Viennese Paradise)

Author / Artist: Anton Hartinger, Austrian flower painter and lithographer (1806 - 1890). https://t.co/2yJ2bzVDem

Can you imagine that this woodcut was printed in 1493
Wuerzburg, Germany
General view of the important city in Bavaria, province of Franconia
Published in: Nuremberg Chronicle ("Weltchronik" (Liber Chronicarum)Author: Hartmann Schedel.
(first edition)
https://t.co/psO9czArLH

The talking parrot and the daintily singing canary
With a rhyming poem about the subject matter in German. Augsburg, ca. 1730.
Since there is no canary bird, the engraving and the poem refers to the charming lady in the middle ground playing the flute.
https://t.co/bmSG1pfyS2