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'Engravings of the arteries' by Scottish surgeon Charles Bell, known for his anatomical art https://t.co/of487XOYSe

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2021-08-11

For today’s challenge, draw a crown.

And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
— Exodus 39:30, KJV

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2021-08-09

Valverde's most famous work was "Historia de la composicion del cuerpo humano", first published in Rome, 1556. The original illustrations were most likely drawn by Gaspar Becerra, and the copperplate engravings are thought to have been carried out by Nicolas Beatrizet.

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2021-07-24

Gotta zoom in on those engravings. Here's Arabelle, the elf longhunter. You'll see her again soon bc I like drawing her chaps and you can't see it in this piece.

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2021-07-19

Basic color laid in. Gonna add a bit more detail and color variance to make it all interesting. Gotta add some call outs too. Her illus will put her amongst her people, so the engravings on the medallion need to be thoughtful so I can have a visual connection.

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2021-07-16

John Singleton Copley, btd 1738, foremost American colonial portraitist, taught himself to paint by copying Italian engravings, producing 'Return of Neptune' at age 15! He rarely did mythological subjects later, but 'Venus & Cupid' is a wonderfully warm study of mother & child

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2021-07-03

It's These wood engravings are prints by German-American artist Hans Alexander Mueller from the Limited Editions Club edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 'Kidnapped,' designed and printed in 1938 by Elmer Adler. Learn more: https://t.co/EQaOYlQbHR

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2021-07-01

Some Australian native plants for a sunny humpday: a Bottlebrush on the left and a Banksia on the right

Both are hand-coloured engravings from Curtis' botanical

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2021-06-30

To commemorate the milestone of Charles V's election as Holy Roman Emperor OTD in 1519, we look to his coronation w these images from a facsimile edition of engravings of the procession originally produced in 1535 by Nicolaas Hogenberg. Learn more: https://t.co/MneL9CzBvG

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2021-06-29

Boydell Shakespeare engravings through the Queen's eyes, modelling feminine viewers interested in sentimental, domestic scenes in the pages of Boydell's print collection, an alternative to the dynamic of the gallery pictures - Rosie Dias

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2021-06-17

Today we present a few of Barry Moser’s wood engravings from his 1984 Pennyroyal Editions printing of Washington Irving’s 'Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'

Learn more: https://t.co/9h7SvED0ZK

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2021-06-17

Mondays, amirite?

["De zieltogende Anjouse Monarchie." From "A Collection of Dutch political pamphlets, broadsides, and cartoons." Netherlands. 1711. Case Wing folio ZC 1 .185.]

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2021-06-14

Born in 1726 - Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Here are a few engravings from his book 'The British Zoology', 1766, this edition "published under the inspection of the Cymmrodorion Society".

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2021-06-14

Miriam Macgregor is an Indian-born British wood engraver and type compositor. Since 1977, she has worked the Whittington Press. Today we present her wood engravings for P.J. Kavanagh’s Real Sky, printed in 1980 by Macgregor herself. https://t.co/onqLeIt99B

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2021-06-03

Four copperplate engravings by Albert Decaris for "Tamburlaine the Great," published in "Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays" (NY: The Heritage Press, 1966):

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2021-05-30

Najah Albukai was arrested & tortured between 2012 – 2015 in Damascus in Branch 227 detention center by the Syrian intelligence services. His drawings and engravings illustrate the torture & torment he experienced



https://t.co/pKfh6w6IYx

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2021-05-23

honestly it reminds me of the beautiful old engravings by artists like Albrecht Dürer (seen below), and really captures the medieval/historic feel of the series (speaking as an outsider)

never got too into it was the art was always good

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2021-05-21

🌲 Coloured engravings of heaths:
London: Published by the Author. Printed by T. Bensley, 1802-09 [1830?]
https://t.co/bZwZs03qeD

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2021-05-20

Ruth Marten, well known illustrator and tattoo artist, has embellished recombinants of 17th and 18th century engravings seamlessly weave radical alterations, subtle visual humour and ecstatic fantasy into delirious social landscapes.

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2021-05-16

Botanical Citrus Fruits - Hesperide Garden: Cedro della Ghianda.

Nuremberg Hesperides, 1708-1714 by Johann Volckamer ( Volkamer )
Just look and enjoy the splendor of these leaves: copper engravings in magnificent color of citrus fruit and blossoms, oranges, lemons,...

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2021-05-15