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Albert Henry Payne lived and produced his work throughout the 1800s. He created Pilgrims in the Desert via steel engraving. Steel engraving was initially invented for printing banknotes, and was adapted for illustrations in 1820.
Pyrrhus, when a child, brought to Glaucias, king of Illyria, for protection
John Hall, Benjamin West
Prints, Engraving
American, 18th century
🐘 Engravings of lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, dogs, &c.
London, H.G. Bohn, 1853.
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"Stellatum Planisphaerium" - handcolored engraving by Louis Vlasblom and Johannes van Keulen, Netherlands, c. 1675; a double hemisphere planisphere with additional illustrations of the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems @AdlerPlanet https://t.co/aQjPW3fQvL
This impressive collaboration by Marie-Josee Roy and Jerome Prieur needs to be seen in person to be properly appreciated. Here we try to show you just how beautiful this work is, with the play of light on the surface of the aluminum showing off the engraving by Prieur.
"The very best of cooks are sorcerers, wizards, shamans and tricksters. They must be, for they are capable of powerful acts of transformation.
-Midori Snyder - In Praise of the Cooks
Alchemists in workshop engraving 1580
#folkloreSunday
September and October; two dancing couples; from a series of ten engravings, 1546-7.
Sebald Beham.
(British Museum)
"Glasieren der Thonwaren" (putting the glaze on ceramics)
Wood engraving on a page of German text about ceramics and porcelaine.
Text continues on reverse side where there is an image of a terracotta by Luca della Robbia"
Published 1886.
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"Antonius haelt die Trauerrede bei der Leiche des Julius Caesar"
Wood engraving showing Antonius giving the eulogy for Julius Ceasar.Published 1862.
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"Exposition Universelle. - Types nationaux. - Costumes du Mecklembourg"
Mecklenburg - Germany
Wood engraving published 1862.
Original antique print
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For #WoodEngravingWednesday we're sharing wood-engraved illustrations for the children's literature from the Goodyear Rubber Co. 1880s promotional publication, 'Our Picture Book,' containing stories and poems for young readers. Learn more: https://t.co/09c1KbiDyf
daily rough
. . . engraving vanishing memories into the sword.
Berelithian architecture. A Black Marble Pillar of Banefire, fueled by demon bone marrow as kindling. There are not many left functional, and with their engravings still empowered. However, the Six Eyed Horror has been observed guarding one, perfectly preserved, ferociously.
@NekroXIII I´m Celsius. I work with pieces from old engravings, 19th-century drawings, animals and machines from the Industrial Revolution. I gear them with my own drawings, lines and color in dozens of layers like an old watchmaker, to create modern and amazing new stories and characters.
In 1849, the apparatus used in the 3rd act of the stage play ‘The Prophet’ (Le prophète, Paris 16 April), to imitate the rising sun, consisted of an arc lamp fitted with a large ‘parabolic reflector’ (below).
Engraving below of Act IV, scene 2 in ‘L'Illustration’ 24 April 1849. https://t.co/qmtAiCgMb5
そうなってくるとコレもやっておきたいわね……ということで『銅版画版クトゥルフ(Cthulhu copperplate engraving)』。いいカンジじゃ~ん。
It's #WoodEngravingWednesday! Today we return to engravings by English wood engraver John O’Connor published in 'People & Places,' printed in 1999 by John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Hereforshire, England in an edition of 375 copies. More: https://t.co/kmbYPf5i7f