Today is the day we celebrate the Serpentes, those long, scaly, cold-blooded, legless squamates. In celebration, we present a few chromolithographs and wood engravings of snakes doing what snakes do: threatening, crushing, swallowing things, and just hanging out, looking cool.

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The "unicorn of Quedlinburg" or: How a narwhal tusk became a unicorn. Engraving by Nicolaus Seeländer from 1716.

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静画版がこちらになります。より多数の画像は
Pixiv→https://t.co/5vLOpKkVwa
またはブログ→https://t.co/x6dw51jlXT
ご覧いただけたら嬉しいです。
ライトアップと相性がいいのがこの趣味のいい所。立体ホログラムのように美しくなります。

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A putto, a cherub-like child, holds a helmet before a sea monster.
1878 engraving by Giovanni Andrea Maglioli.

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'Independence of the United States,' French engraving published in 1786. Note the portrait of Louis XVI along with Franklin and Washington’s portraits.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream... Engraving by Paul Konewka.

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Outside the magnolia is beginning to do admire it if you are visiting us! Meanwhile enjoy this beautiful engraving of Magnolia grandiflora by Georg D. Ehret in Mark Catesby's 'The natural history of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands,...' publ. 1731-43.

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Artists Illustrate The White Whale presents 28 screen prints & engravings by Frank Convey, Will Maclean, Debbie Lee & more, illustrating classic tale. On view this Mon during our sale viewing. Learn more: https://t.co/di3WEbU5R8

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A quick take on Thursday Joan of Arc, a 1903 engraving by Albert Lynch - have a great day!

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Progress!

Also I remembered a little too late that Adam’s sword is supposed to have something on it resembling a horse. It was supposed to be that curved bit being a horse head, but I'll just got with a quick engraving for now lol

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For the month of June, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the June 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review for Lovers of Gardens, Woodland, Tree or Flower.' Learn more here: https://t.co/JRILIQUv0I

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Some drypoint engraving from december I never posted here

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Here's some for ya! They come from our mid-19th-century edition of 'The Naturalist’s Library,' edited by noted American physician and naturalist Augustus Addison Gould, and published in New York with 400 engravings. More owls here: https://t.co/VsGuonkwXl

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Dry Land Appearing, a wood engraving by Paul Nash who was born in 1889. Nash grew up in Buckinghamshire, where he developed a love of landscapes

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in 1869, the eastbound and westbound railroad tracks met at Utah's Promontory Summit, marking the completion of the This engraving was created from a photograph that captured the historic moment. https://t.co/XoGikH8ukb

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William Wynne Ryland 1774 stipple engraving of General Stanwix’s daughter who was lost at sea in 1766. Ryland was later found guilty of forging bills of exchange and was the last person to be hung at Tyburn in August 1783

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2019-05-04
woodengraving
木口木刻版畫
32x92cm

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