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Spiders, ants and hummingbird on a branch of a guava - Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705. (Colored copper engraving from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, Plate XLIII.)

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2019-03-30

Good morning here to kick off today's theme: hearth and the household!
[Img: 19th century engraving of Homunculus from Goethe's Faust]

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2019-03-28

Spring has sprung 🌿💐 Beautiful copper engravings by British author and Dr. John Hill, which were published in his illustrated compendium "The British Herbal" (1756)🌼🌹
Visit https://t.co/u98v0VvIbO or pop upstairs at The Map House and peruse the collection

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2019-03-25

landsknecht and death, inspired by an engraving of 1510 by the artist Albrecht Durer

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2019-03-21

Happy Spring! 📷Colored engraving, title page of "A Wreath from the Woods of Carolina," Mary Ann Bryan Mason, 1859. Rare Books Collection. Government & Heritage Library. Mary Ann Bryan Mason, 1st woman in NC to have written & illustrated a children's book.

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2019-03-21

'Wearable Dragon for Butterfly Souls' by , inks and watercolour on engraving cream paper 400gsm, 10" x 10", £650GBP (available).
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2019-03-21

Check out this fascinating article on video games that lifted designs from other artists! (In case it helps, , the "unknown source" of the image on the left was Gustave Doré's engraving of Dante's Inferno, Canto XXII.) https://t.co/zsMUz6uxv9

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2019-03-21

This is my latest wood engraving, 'Tideline Feathers'. It's one of the prints I'm exhibiting in Ledbury until 29th April. Find out more here... https://t.co/XZ5iABgIIZ

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2019-03-19

The next Destiny weapon dragon is Malfeasance! I really enjoyed transforming this skeletal gun into a skeletal dragon! And all that engraving was -super- fun to add!

What weapon do you want to see transformed?

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2019-03-18

The painter Angelica Kauffman astutely collaborated with engravers. Here a portrait of her engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi in 1780 and in turn her portrait engraving of J. J. Winckelmann of 1764 (see W. Roworth in September 2018 issue of Print Quarterly).

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2019-03-09

Our prime minister just met with and this is the gift he gave him... Its special edition of made to celebrate 100th anniversary of our country with "Truth wins" insignia. Fun fact: I studied engraving and was doing this in school :)

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2019-03-08

Astronomy: two rival mathematicians, Urinaal and Raasbollius, argue about models of the solar system; engraving by P. Tanjé, 1758, after C. Troost, 1741; from an episode in the play "The mathematicians" by P. Langendijk, 1715; Amsterdam https://t.co/LwbgFS0ttT

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2019-03-07

For the month of March, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the March 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review.' Learn more here: https://t.co/f3gDyGNhF9

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2019-03-07

Due to the impact of Winter Storm Taylor, Orchard House will be closed on Monday, March 4th. Enjoy the snow day!

(W. B. Murray engraving, 1874)

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2019-03-04

girl for Gonna buy some more colors tomorrow I think, all the colors in my current palette are very earthy and I'm graving from some cute bright violets, blues and pinks q-q

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2019-03-04

Spiking at in the last couple of days have been the witty and brilliantly executed engravings of Marcel Vertès. If you haven't already, do head over to https://t.co/LcFdbo976T and enjoy his irreverent take on the underbelly of 'polite society'. Enjoy! 😘

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2019-03-02

Spiking at in the last couple of days have been the witty and brilliantly executed engravings of Marcel Vertès. If you haven't already, do head over to https://t.co/LcFdbo976T and enjoy his irreverent take on the underbelly of 'polite society'. Enjoy! 😘

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2019-03-02

I had to choose this for 1 March - it has everything; catkins, pussy-willow, daffodils, primroses and crocuses. "Spring bouquet", 1930 wood-engraving, by Gertrude Hermes.

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2019-03-01