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Milk Maid caries yoke with milk buckets and various measures.
Aquatint, 1805
"Milk below Maids"
Stopple copper engraving by luigi Schiavonetti (1765-1810)
After the painting by Francis Wheatley (1747-1801)
London, 1793 https://t.co/BIopnhORue
Architecture and Astronomy
Stipple engraving by S. Chapman after R. Corbould, dated 1803. Original hand coloring.
African bird prints.: Turocos belonging to the bird family of Musaphaga. In South Africa they are more commonly known as Louries.
Musaphoga-Turaco birds live in sub-Sahara countries: Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria,...
Some old Master Prints for you to enjoy!
#oldmasterprints #altmeister #oldmasterprint #oldmasterdrawings
@BeschlossDC ...I have finally realized my dreams... the fusion of woodlice and slugs..... since my only aim is to liberate our coughing and suffering humanity of its pain, I offer the box for only five francs..... half a box was enough to cure the father of Mr. Ducantal! by Daumier, 1844
@LDBurnett Some antique prints for you to enjoy #bedbugs #Entomology #bugs #beetles #spiders #coleoptera #insects #beetle #roadtrip #memories
Assyrian Artifacts
Anonymous lithograph with original hand coloring.
One of them with a goat head, another with a winged horse with horns (Assyrian - Mesopotamia)
https://t.co/s7OEKmOKKn
Just imagine: This was printed in 1493!!!
Wuerzburg - Würzburg. - "Herbipolis"
General view of the important city in Bavaria, province of Franconia
Published in: Nuremberg Chronicle ("Weltchronik" (Liber Chronicarum)
By Hartmann Schedel.
https://t.co/nvD505qh22
"Combat Singulier entre Mardi-Gras et Mercredi-des-Cendres"
Copper etching by monogramist G. B. Ch. after his own drawing.
Publ. in Paris, ca. 1830
Frugality fighting opulence. Frugality winning over debauchery in Ash Wednesday, the beginning of lent after the ending of carnival.