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 )

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Tarsier. Antique engraving created mid-1700s by Jacques Henri E. De Sève for French naturalist, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Wildlife art at Terence Kerr on Alamy:
https://t.co/jTomN0DTsI

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This we present for wood engravings by the Russian-born French artist Ivan Lebedeff, from the 1929 Golden Cockerel Press printing of Russian writer Leonid Andreyev’s story 'The Abyss' with a translation by John Cournos. Learn more: https://t.co/tYMGyZF90K

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Allegorical engraving of Elizabeth I as a female British warrior-queen. She is channeling St. George complete with a hydra-dragon representing Spain. The Latin text reads "Elizabeth queen of England & Hibernia (Scotland), etc." In the background is the English fleet

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Maurolycus concerns himself with light rays & their direction in the camera.

In the year he died, he published 'Photismi De Lumine Et Umbra'.

Portrait of Maurolycus is a line engraving by G. Guzzi after a portrait by Polidoro di Caravaggio. https://t.co/OoVWvwSTfW

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Died 9Aug1738 famous engraver, Pierre Drevet whose were mainly portraits of distinguished people. Among them is his engravings of Louis XIV, where he captured with precision the rich textures and materials in Hyacinthe Rigaud’s painting.

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Ann found it difficult to select one book for but decided on Maria Merian's 'Dissertation sur la génération et les transformations des insectes de Surinam...', our copy publ. 1726, it features wonderful engravings of insects, plants, reptiles & amphibians.

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I drew my new RP Character "Rakhi", a half Orc half Thorwal worrior ❤️
I love her so much!!
Her weapons still need some engravings but my Fuschi will design some for me 💕🦊

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According to Pliny (H. N. XIV) οἰνόμελι or "wine-honey" was invented by Aristaeus, Greek rustic deity who was also the first beekeeper, son of the huntress Cyrene & the god Apollo

Aristaeus Inventor Mellis holding a beehive, 1565 engraving by Cornelis Cort after Frans Floris

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Santiago Laser Engraving gonna be starting tonight! Running the first program for Laser Engraved NFTs! If your interested in getting your NFT laser engraved on wood stay tooned for the final product tonight!

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I kept seeing "thunder beast vibes" in many Japanese engravings so I wanted to draw a Hak inspired on these works of art so badly! I've taking references from many of them but that cool pose belongs to Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's "Mimura Jirozaemon Kanetsune" of the Forty-Seven Ronin👇

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King Charles II (1616 - 1691), the 'Merry Monarch' of England's Restoration period. Original 1650 engraving by William Faithorne the Elder. Find this and other portraits at Terence Kerr on Alamy:
https://t.co/xWGWdWWITw

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In 1824, English entomologist Dr John Curtis began publishing 'British Entomology': 770 hand-coloured, copper-plate engravings with data. Unfortunately, a high percentage of the insects species recorded are now endangered; some extinct. Mostly, due to habitat loss.

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The Rape of a Sabine Woman Seen from the Back, Her Face Visible
Jan Harmensz. Muller, Adriaen de Vries
Prints, Engraving
Dutch, ca. 1598

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in 1843 Christ Church on was consecrated. Proposals to build a new church were put forward in 1841 and money was raised by public subscription. It was designed in the Early English style by George Gilbert Scott and W B Moffatt. Engraving from 1845.

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Elihu Vedder (1836-1923), "The Pleiades" (1885), oil on canvas, 95.6 x 61.3 cm, along with two studies for the painting and an 1886 wood engraving of it by F. E. Fillebrown.

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‘Le Singe qui Montre La Lanterne Magique’ is a comical steel engraving by Foulquier, after Victor Bachereau from 1865.

It’s one of the many book illustrations published on the well-known fable by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian about a monkey displaying the ‘Magic Lantern’. https://t.co/SxBlZJdFsW

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"Léandre"
Composition numérique pour tirage argentique
Gravure de Jean-Nicolas Laugier


© Jérôme Pellerin-Moncler

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