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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

自創作Engravers、短命騎士。

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2020-09-22

The painter Angelica Kauffman astutely collaborated with engravers. Here a portrait of her engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi in 1780 and in turn her portrait engraving of J. J. Winckelmann of 1764 (see W. Roworth in September 2018 issue of Print Quarterly).

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2019-03-09

Clifford Webb (1894-1972) was one of Britain’s foremost wood engravers and illustrator of children’s books, but today his work is often overlooked. Many only know him for his illustrations in Swallows & Amazons. Hopefully this will change when we publish this in March.

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2019-01-25

Self-Portrait, 1931, wood engraving by Howard Cook. Wood engravers are the mad geniuses of parallel hatching. The American artist spent the majority of his life in New Mexico with his wife, the artist Barbara Latham.

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2018-12-23

All flowers great and small: The plates for Joseph Banks’ Florilegium were prepared by 18 engravers over 13 years, but remained unpublished during his lifetime. To find out why & learn about these beautiful limited edition coloured prints...

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2018-10-10

The Crucifixion of Christ by Tintoretto in San Cassiano. John Ruskin described it as, "the finest in Europe". It’s actually based on a print by the Dutch philosopher and artist Dirck Coornhert, made from a design by Maerten van Heemskerck, who made many designs for engravers!

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2018-09-21

The Society of Wood Engravers 77th touring Exhibition opens 30 May :

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2015-05-29

16th: last Sat to see The Society of Wood Engravers 77th Exhibition : 'Over the Wall'

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2015-05-16

25 April-20 May: I have 3 engravings in The Society of Wood Engravers 77th Exhibition Petworth

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2015-04-18