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Some amazing therianthropic fallen angels being cast down by St Michael in this 1580s engraving. Astonishing how widespread in time and geography are the depictions of gods, demons and others as human merged (usually in the head) with animals

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2019-04-15

A mermaid illustration I did a couple of months ago, inspired by old woodcuts and engravings

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2019-04-15

The punchcutter had to visually adapt his design to the engraving size. The aim was to optimize the best contrast and general weight, but also to respect both design’s and reader’s needs. https://t.co/DVP5jTqoFb

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2019-04-14

1898
British-American artist Clare Leighton was in
"It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree."

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2019-04-12

I have never seen these Alphonse Mucha pieces! These are the wood engravings for reproduction from an 1897 issue of La Plume. Source: https://t.co/oy0EiF3xDp

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2019-04-12

Okay, backstamps are too expensive for such small pin runs for me so I'm opting for engraving.

Thrilled to do this tho.

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2019-04-09

I found out engraving was free...

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2019-04-08

engraving a legend onto the rock

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2019-04-07

Such sweet little details in an already beautiful book: the first edition of von Trebra's Erfahrungen vom Innern der Gebirge, 1785, a geognostic description of the Harz Mountains with hand-coloured engravings showing people out and about in the countryside https://t.co/kiADyvSrGR

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2019-04-04

For the month of April, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the April 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review.' Learn more here: https://t.co/q6gtpFFo3e

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2019-04-04

Rare texts, paintings, sculptures, engravings, photographs, installations and even comics form the subject of this publication, to discover Arabia through both ancient and modern representations.
More info here: https://t.co/5whvfhtYIl

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2019-04-02

The work of to be seen in hall 25 at stand B112 - specialises in wood engraving and ink.

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2019-04-02

Railway Bridge Bath
wood engraving by Winifred McKenzie (1905-2001) 1950s

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2019-03-31

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

Latest state print wip copper

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2019-03-26

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