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Beautiful engravings from "Select Specimens Of Natural History, Collected In Travels To Discover The Source Of The Nile, Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia and Nubia" by Scottish explorer, travel writer & draughtman James Bruce (1790). https://t.co/Ja9mlIgGLg

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2021-02-10

These four images are from a series of five German engravings of Momento Mori at the British Museum. Alexander Mair created the engravings and they date all the way back to 1605.

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2021-02-09

It’s Friday evening, more snow on the way, so let’s have Eric Ravilious remind us of better days to come with these 1930s wood-engravings. Have a good weekend everyone.

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2021-02-06

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2021-02-01

Fine, toned steel engravings, published 1861.
1. Jaffa
2. Mount Sinai
3. Jerusalem, Temple mount
https://t.co/ZVEaw7RpsB

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2021-01-30

We only have a few left of this limited edition First Day Cover, signed by Simon Callow CBE.

Simon visited the Charles Dickens Museum in London last year and signed the covers while inspecting the engravings and portraits used to create our stamps.

Visit https://t.co/yk91lDUvqC

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2021-01-26

Directly imported from China, shunga refers to a form of ukiyo-e-style engravings dedicated to eroticism that were particularly popular in the Edo period (1600–1868). Literally, the term shunga (春 画), derived from the Chinese chungonghua, translates to "images of spring"

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2021-01-22

Download zip file of high-res 18th c. hand-painted engravings of medicinal plants. "It was highly praised by leading physicians and apothecaries." via The British Library, Catalogues & Collections.
https://t.co/uEaz27MRDx

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2021-01-19

Some fairy-tale images are forever, & Doré’s 1862 wood-engravings, for The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, are just that to me. I love the gothic arch of trees & tangled growth that the prince must face alone. Doré always cast a spell.
☺️📚💫🪡👑🥀💕

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2021-01-19

Coloured full-page 16th century engravings from the King's Library copy of Ippolito Salviani, Aquatilium Animalium Historiæ liber primus, Romæ, 1554, 41.i.10,

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2021-01-15

Botanical illustration and the park: The florists' journal and gardener's record : illustrated with superior coloured engravings .......by RCH Groombridge et al.....3 vols, BHL/Smithsonian .https://t.co/tkt8ok8zB4

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2021-01-05

I’ve just added 20 large Anatomical Engravings to the our shop. These beautifully macabre engravings by William Fairland were published in 1837, the detail in them is exquisite, measuring 50 x 31cm.
Only £20 each, freepost within the UK!
💀🖤🥀

https://t.co/4G1OJt2xC8

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2021-01-04

Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, at No. 377 Strand. Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 10 March 1819.
From [A Collection of 226 Engravings, etc., illustrating London and Environs] Maps C.18.d.6.

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2021-01-03

The 1820s saw the publication of John’s A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, with engravings like this by William under John’s close supervision (picture: Met)

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2021-01-02

A gold/Australium Black Rose retexture, done as a commission for . It is fully gold (save for the moving bits like the screws). I have given this a custom normalmap to make the etchings from the regular version now into engravings.

DL: https://t.co/pS6UdZex0X

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2020-12-29

It's Today we revisit the 6th edition of Thomas Bewick‘s classic field guide 'A History of British Birds,' with his wood engravings of the smaller falcons, a part of what Bewick refers to as “The Falcon Tribe of rapacious birds.” View more: https://t.co/cw58K2IxF8

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2020-12-11

'Stooking', a print from a wood engraving by Clare Leighton, whose 'Four Hedges' has been re-issued by
and contains many of her wood engravings.
https://t.co/7MhCl54uF4

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2020-12-10

Yes, academic garb was considered less controversial, greatly valued so maintained the hierarchical dress-code of the universities. There were, of course, slight variations between BAs, Masters, Senior Fellows & DD's as these 1674 David Logan engravings show

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2020-12-09

It is so we are taking the opportunity to highlight some trees species you can see & also engravings in Mark Catesby's 'The natural history of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama Islands,...' publ. 1731-43.
1st - Magnolia grandiflora by Georg D. Ehret.

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2020-12-01

Spotlight on book illustrators, part 3: Joseph Banks' London workshop: When Joseph Banks returned from his circumnavigation onboard HMB Endeavour he hired a host of artists and engravers to translate Sydney Parkinson’s botanical drawings from the journey into engravings. 🧵

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2020-11-27