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Detail of dogs in 1565 engraving by Giorgio Ghisi, Allegory of the Hunt (after Luca Penni). Gift of Herman H. Levy to McMaster Museum of Art

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2018-07-07

Old Lock at Brentford (for British Waterways) wood engraving by George Mackley 1967

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2018-06-29

SALVADOR DALÍ’S STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
, Lafayette, LA
On thru Jan 18, 2019
https://t.co/SKzsI1IdHY
Salvador Dalí. Centaur, 1960. Wood engraving on wove paper after a watercolor. Collection of the Park West Museum

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2018-06-27

Need an illustrator? Have a look at the work of
https://t.co/VFTuVMpwf2 Engraving; digital; watercolour or textile...

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2018-06-23

Charles Bell's Engravings of the Arteries was written by the Scottish surgeon as a manual for medical students (1801) https://t.co/sEiRJbdJGh

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2018-06-20

Ruined house illustration from Jane Eyre, wood engraving, Fritz Eichenberg. Novel by Charlotte Brontë, originally published on 16 October 1847.

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2018-06-11

This guy has veen spreading my engraving shavings all over the desk.

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2018-06-07

A new exhibition is currently in preparation. Opens 11th June. 'Discourse: Reynolds to Rego. 250 years of Prints by Royal Academicians' (Original watercolour by Richard Westell & engraving made after it for Boydell's edition of Milton's 'Poetical Works')

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2018-06-05

I have to say I do wish more people liked engravings/etchings/prints more. Those have always been some of my faves, but I tend to enjoy more stylized artworks in general...
https://t.co/dESKlhxgPT

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2018-06-02


Walt Whitman (31 May 1819—26 Mar 1892), U.S. poet, journalist, essayist.

"His verse collection Leaves of Grass a landmark in history of American literature."

📷 Engraving by Gabriel Harrison, 1854
📷 Brady-Handy Coll., 1860-65
📷 Mathew Brady, 1871
📷 George C. Cox, 1887

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2018-06-01

Yesterday for World Turtle Day we brought you a broadside with a wood engraving by Alan J Robinson. Today we present wood engravings & etchings of ravens from Robinson’s 1980 Cheloniidae Press edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s dark poem "The Raven." Read more: https://t.co/QUWFDQseyX

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2018-05-25

This highly motivated Owl and its friends are from another engraving in 'Endangered Species, and Other Fables with a Twist' by the noted German-American wood engraver, illustrator, and educator Fritz Eichenberg. Read the fable here: https://t.co/v8a4lI0sYG

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2018-05-22

Landscape by Albrecht Dürer, who was born in 1471. While most of his work consisted of oil paintings and woodcut engravings, Dürer also painted a number of watercolour landscapes in his travels to and from Italy, particularly in the Alps of southern Tyrol, Italy.

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2018-05-21

Happy Birthday to Northern Renaissance painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer, who was born in 1471.
In 'Melencolia I' (1514), Dürer pictured an allegory of the creative melancholy of the artist, and this engraving has often been interpreted as a symbolic self-portrait.

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2018-05-21

"A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland" (1793-95) was the 1st published scientific book dedicated to Australian flora. It features engravings prepared by James Sowerby based partly on drawings by convict artist Thomas Watling: https://t.co/1kdms7YyuG

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2018-05-19

Engraving and etching by John Beugo, “Two Écorché Trunks” - from the book "Anatomy of the Bones, Muscles, and Joints" by John Bell, 1794

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2018-05-15

For the first Wednesday in May, we present wood engravings and chromolithographs from the May 1904 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/LkuBZVzRCX

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2018-05-03

Unusual engraving of from our collection, as it's cribbed from Van Dyck's famous portrait of Artistic conventions meant there are copies of certain styles, the equivalent of Photoshop-ing someone's head onto another portrait.

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2018-05-02

Frederick Sandys was born 1829. The first image is a study for the skeleton that he used in his wood engraving “Until Her Death”.

Study of a Skeleton
Until Her Death
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards
Yet Once More on the Organ Play

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2018-05-01

Fear and fascism: illustrations by Lynd Ward from his wordless novel, SONG WITHOUT WORDS: A BOOK OF ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD (1936).

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2018-05-01