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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
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@otherhappyplace Not exactly paintings, but I've always felt the Fritz Eichenberg engravings for Wuthering Heights were upsetting to the point of disturbing.
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
Yerebatan Sarayi, Basilica Sarnici, the sunken palace cistern, Istanbul built by Justinian around 532 AD, engraving 1840 by Thomas Allom.
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.
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).
@smithsonian Hans Jelinek 🇦🇹🇺🇸 (b. 21.8.1910)
'The Last Walk' (c. 1943)
#7 from the series 'The Story of Lidice'
Wood engraving
12.7 x 10.2 cm
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)
篆書体再び。デザインの関係で実際の篆書体と少し変えたけど結構かっこいいよね。やはり手ぶれ補正使わない方がいいな。
I wrote some character names in seal engraving style of writing. Let’s try to guess which is which!
#oregairu
#procreate
#俺ガイル
#らいふぁのアトリエ
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
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’.
Today for #WoodEngravingWednesday 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
I've drawn Zipponeko, and now I've colored her. Ironically my own Zippo broke down the exact day I've drawn her lines. What could it mean? Was my Zippo angry that I didn't draw her specific engraving? We shall never know.
@silly_chaotic Thanks for the opportunity 🌻I'm either monochromic or very colorful , epured on digi and very detailled on tradi
I do engraving too
Prompted by @SlCathy 's post showing a lovely engraving by Agnes Miller Parker, here's a Barn Owl from 1938. Really a master of her craft.
#owlishmonday @todbooklady
An albatross was thought to carry the souls of dead sailors, so it was bad luck to kill one. However, it is considered good luck if you see one. [Engraving by Gustave Doré for an 1876 edition of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge.] #SuperstitionSat
M. C. Escher
Dragon, 1952
Wood-engraving, on Japanese paper
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@timothysaccenti Ex: loved the album Age Of so I look into it’s promotional art and liner notes and see a 1565 French engravings by François Desprez as a credit so thru that I stumble upon Rabelais and the Tales of Pantagruel now I’m deep in medieval/enlightenment art from a 2018 electronic album
Time stands over the skeletal form of Death in this engraving by Aegidius II Sadeler. Bartholomeus Spranger has been spared but death has claimed his wife Christina. A putto reveals a skull. 1600 (From the free Printmaking in Prague exhibition at @britishmuseum) #mementomori