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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
This #WoodEngravingWednesday 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
@hevercastle 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
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
Died #OnThisDay 9Aug1738 famous #French engraver, Pierre Drevet whose #engravings 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.
Ann found it difficult to select one book for #NationalBookLoversDay 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.
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
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! @DegenToonz
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👇
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
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.
The Rape of a Sabine Woman Seen from the Back, Her Face Visible
Jan Harmensz. Muller, Adriaen de Vries
Prints, Engraving
Dutch, ca. 1598
#Otd in 1843 Christ Church on #TurnhamGreen 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.
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.
‘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
New vibes for summer contrast, high strong colors with old engraving . #tondo #design #homedecor #gold #marble #pattern #interiordesign #graphicdesign #art #creativity #luxury #fork #spoon #horse #geometry #italian #madeinitaly #architect #zodiac #white #zebra #sky #stars
"Léandre"
Composition numérique pour tirage argentique
Gravure de Jean-Nicolas Laugier
#portrait #leandre #spirit #poster #queer #queerart #gay #gayart #queerartwork #gaymagazine #phantom #engraving #laugier #death #darkart #darkartists #Bordeaux
© Jérôme Pellerin-Moncler
This week we present a few small wood engravings by the California engraver Paul Landacre from Ward Ritchie’s short memoir of his longtime friend and colleague, designed by Ritchie and printed in 1982 for The Book Club of California in an edition of 650. https://t.co/v0HQ5zH8wJ