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The Emperor Xogun of Jipangu

Based on some 1680s innacurate french engravings portraying the Emperor of Japan in ottoman-style clothes

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2022-10-12

Random from stock: (Leiden, ca. 1720) of very rare collection of 80 & depicting exotic plants & from East & West Indies &
https://t.co/eA59eozBMd

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2022-09-27

This is my favorite book in the collection, 'Lac des Pleurs' by Gaylord Schanilec & his Midnight Paper Sales press. It's a truly beautiful book and the quality of the materials and work (especially the wood engravings) is beyond! Learn more: https://t.co/Bxiwf42epL

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2022-09-23

It's This week we present wood engravings by three notable French artists, Jacque Boullaire, Fernand Siméon, and Constant Le Breton. These engravings appear in the first volume of the English annual 'The Woodcut.' Learn more: https://t.co/6gL2thzg1m

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2022-09-22

update on the pirate model, we made the bun belt engravings on stream. how many bun names do you see?

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2022-09-21

Spooky Advent: Diorama of Doom 🪲🧃
13 ̷l̷u̷c̷k̷y̷ unlucky random folks will lose their heads!

🪦 Free & open to all followers; comment w/your OC's ref & the headstones' engravings will be revealed day by day throughout the 13 days leading up to Halloween!🎃

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2022-09-20

🐘 Engravings of lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, dogs, &c.
London, H.G. Bohn, 1853.
https://t.co/vKrzX8IhAI

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2022-09-16

September and October; two dancing couples; from a series of ten engravings, 1546-7.
Sebald Beham.

(British Museum)

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2022-09-11

Berelithian architecture. A Black Marble Pillar of Banefire, fueled by demon bone marrow as kindling. There are not many left functional, and with their engravings still empowered. However, the Six Eyed Horror has been observed guarding one, perfectly preserved, ferociously.

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2022-09-06

I´m Celsius. I work with pieces from old engravings, 19th-century drawings, animals and machines from the Industrial Revolution. I gear them with my own drawings, lines and color in dozens of layers like an old watchmaker, to create modern and amazing new stories and characters.

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2022-09-06

It's Today we return to engravings by English wood engraver John O’Connor published in 'People & Places,' printed in 1999 by John and Rosalind Randle’s Whittington Press in Hereforshire, England in an edition of 375 copies. More: https://t.co/kmbYPf5i7f

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2022-09-01

All dogs go to heaven (i.e. the Newberry).

[Original blocks for wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Case Wing oversize ZY 845 .B572]

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2022-08-26

saw bleach TYBW is trending so here’s a soul reaper I’ve created with his sword engravings still in the designing process

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2022-08-26

Cuttlefish - Calamary - Nautilus Cranchia
Hand-colored wood engravings.
Published in "Knight's Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature" Page 180
By Charles Knight
London, 1860

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2022-08-25

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
https://t.co/cJghXnrvmm

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2022-08-25

Not exactly paintings, but I've always felt the Fritz Eichenberg engravings for Wuthering Heights were upsetting to the point of disturbing.

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2022-08-25

Today for 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

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2022-08-18

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

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2022-08-12

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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2022-08-11

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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2022-08-09