"Rotating Reading"
Chinese engraving from 1627 from a drawing by Jesuit missionary Terence Schreck.

Via Libri Usati e Antichi

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I guess I'll throw my metaphorical hat in this ring . Im an artist with the idea of doing art streams with a vtuber. Interested into persuing animation, but current day job of engraving saxophone.

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All dogs go to heaven (i.e. the Newberry).

[Original blocks for wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Case Wing oversize ZY 845 .B572]

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New vector illustration by on - Plum-shaped tomatoes, hand drawn vector illustration in vintage engraving style >>>
https://t.co/GgBLHN3cTn

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saw bleach TYBW is trending so here’s a soul reaper I’ve created with his sword engravings still in the designing process

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Cuttlefish - Calamary - Nautilus Cranchia
Hand-colored wood engravings.
Published in "Knight's Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature" Page 180
By Charles Knight
London, 1860

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Giovanni Trevisan Volpato (1735 - 25 August 1803) was an Italian engraver and ceramist.L'Appollon du Vatican Copper engraving -450x300mm

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Traveling around Czech lands

Vogt´s description of Bohemia contains many copper engravings.
M. J. Vogt: Das Jetzt-lebende Königreich Böhmen In einer Historisch- und Geographischen Beschreibung. Franckfurt: Johann Zieger, 1712
National Library CZ B VI 97
https://t.co/cJghXnrvmm

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Not exactly paintings, but I've always felt the Fritz Eichenberg engravings for Wuthering Heights were upsetting to the point of disturbing.

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An engraving (r) from the book ‘Au Random du Chemin’ by M & Mme Satanislas Meunier - J. Rothschild publisher in Paris 13 rue des Saint-Pères. C. 1886. See the ‘Lampadorama’ bottom left corner. https://t.co/eml8QSzjpp

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Yerebatan Sarayi, Basilica Sarnici, the sunken palace cistern, Istanbul built by Justinian around 532 AD, engraving 1840 by Thomas Allom.

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Good morning - I hope you slept like a Scheenstia stuffed baryonix - I'm starting with 'Winter. Rooks and Rain', Gertrude Hermes, print from a wood engraving,1950.

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18TH CENTURY LANTERN ENGRAVING
This beautiful 18th century print, entitled ‘La Lanterne Magique d’Amour’ (The Magic Lantern of Love), was engraved by Pierre Michel Alix (1762-1817), after a painting by Jean Frédéric Schall (1752-1825).

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Hans Jelinek 🇦🇹🇺🇸 (b. 21.8.1910)
'The Last Walk' (c. 1943)
from the series 'The Story of Lidice'
Wood engraving
12.7 x 10.2 cm

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I finally finished it omg
I will do the poster when I get my computer back, in the style of old engraving

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2) The layering affects aesthetics as well — will it look cool to show the traces?

3) And if I do show traces — thoughts on engraving the full path for aesthetics versus just cutting the holes? (3/4)

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The ‘Fountain of Colladon’ was a luminous fountain consisting of projecting light inside a stream of water.

In the engraving a man regulates the flow of water that feeds a fountain placed in the centre of a container intended to collect the water (l).

J-D. Colladon (r). https://t.co/DBjgWrzqcN

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1877
JEAN-DANIEL COLLADON (1802-1893)
In 1877, we find in an American book called ‘The Art of Projection’ by Prof. Amos Emerson Dolbear, a very interesting description of luminous fountains, with this superb engraving, below.

It was known as the luminous ‘Fountain of Colladon’.

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Today for we present Fritz Eichenberg's engravings from the 1986 Limited Editions Club production of French author Georges Bernanos‘s 'Diary of a Country Priest,' printed by the Heritage Press in an edition of 1000. Learn more: https://t.co/k8jO7UI7zo

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