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

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France, Spain, Naples also occasionally used stradioti units in the late 15th and throughout the 16th century.

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Engraving of a French estradiot

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Allegory of Death and Fame (The Skeletons)
Agostino Veneziano (1490-1540), after Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540)
Engraving
1518

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Here comes trouble: descent of the in which the Lion is highlighted (and for some reason, Cancer the Crab appears as a crawfish). My cat never lets me forget that he is a Leo. An engraving dated 1657.

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Are you taking part in the 2022 Big this
These are a few of the you may see, engravings from August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's, (1705-1759) 'De natuurlyke historie der insecten, ...', Haarlem : Bohn & Wit, [1764].
https://t.co/c7bCVqG5f1

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Thats what im saying... its weird
because both possibilities don't make much sense to me

her surviving for so long & Guts just "engraving" into her head real quick before he throws it to the count (he wouldnt even have time to do it)

one of the few "plot holes" in berserk tbh

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Where there’s a will there’s a wombat.

Engraving of wombats after a drawing by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur by Arthus Bertrand, 1824.

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This we present a few wood engravings by Barry Moser from his printing of American poet Louis Simpson’s poem 'The Invasion of Italy' printed at Main Street, Inc. in 1976 in an edition of 75. Learn more: https://t.co/eVPkTS83uI

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"Das brasilianische Ex-Kaiserpaar" (The Brazilian Imperial couple AFTER abdication)

Wood engraving. Published in a German publication. 1889
https://t.co/QGGiJ80zCT

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...another is the famous 'headless horseman' engraving c.1655 by Pierre Lombard, which is based heavily on a 1633 painting of Charles I by Van Dyck, with Cromwell’s head replacing that of the King! There's lots of recycled imagery and messaging (often royal) in these paintings.🙂

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The Good Samaritan
🎨Domenico Campagnola (c. 1500–1564, Italian painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut of the Venetian Renaissance)

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This week for we bring you color wood-engraved illustrations by American printer, designer, and wood engraver Philip Reed for 'Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes' published in New York by Atheneum in 1963. Learn more: https://t.co/7aJmLOAuHH

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A sacrifice to PAN. Engraving by F.G. Aliamet, 1769, after Andrea Sacchi, 1599-1661.

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3 July 1449: Mary of Guelders & James II of wed at Holyrood.

The engraving below is of a tableau vivant depicting their marriage mounted in 1642 at Queen Henrietta Maria’s entry to (BM)

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