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For we've got some wood engravings of vegetation from American wood engraver and book artist Michael McCurdy’s retrospective collection 'Toward the Light,' published in Erin, Ontario by The Porcupine’s Quill in 1982. Learn more here: https://t.co/BxHP9CPm6E

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2020-06-26

This week we combine our two Wednesday series, Flora and Sylva and Wood Engraving Wednesday with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy from a collection of his early prints published as 'Toward the Light by The Porcupine’s Quill' in 1982. Learn more here: https://t.co/8v3fs8QmIE

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2020-06-25

We interview Mark James from about pioneering botanist Joseph Banks in our Banks sailed to Australia with Captain Cook & recorded 1,300 previously undocumented botanical species, resulting in engravings like these.
https://t.co/2SETAyerJr

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2020-06-25

These alien landscapes are actually engravings of the Western US. There's some pretty weird geology out there but I think this exaggerates. https://t.co/9SYzBj6ow0

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2020-06-21

I posted 4 of Hilary's today. They appear with 4 others in my publication of Carol Ann Duffy's 'Eight World's Wives'. Hilary has done the engravings for 4 of my publications.

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2020-06-21

Frankenstein's monster. Wood engravings by Lynd Ward, 1934.

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2020-06-18

Ian Hugo’s line engravings on copper in Anaïs Nin’s Under a Glass Bell (hand-printed by Nin’s own Gemor Press, 1944).

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2020-06-10

What do these engravings of the French surrender in the Battle of Sedan, 1870, have to do with the Gate of Zedan in Zeta? Listen to our latest ep. to find out, and catch up before this week's ep. releases! At https://t.co/xh4eoPgPMJ or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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2020-05-29

21 May 1471 – German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg.

The master printmaker produced brilliantly detailed engravings like these examples https://t.co/N4IIpoL1de

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2020-05-21

Engravings and ink- can’t ever just settle on a character design, always another “BUT WHAT IF,,,”

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2020-05-21

Hindoos going to an Idol Temple' from ‘Rays from The East, or Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the Manners, Customs, Rites, and Antiquities of Eastern Nations’ (1871) by Joseph Austin Benwell.

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2020-05-15

Recently digitised is MS1456, a series of watercolours and engravings by the artist George Samuel of churches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, and Surrey, made c. 1786-1823. Here we have Harmondsworth, Middlesex. See: https://t.co/4duRH0JvMi

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2020-05-12

Born in 1594 in Normandy, near Rouen, Nicolas Poussin moved to Paris in 1612, where he saw works by and engravings after Raphael and Giulio Romano, artists of the High Renaissance, who would continue to inspire him throughout his career.

[Romano, "The Four Elements," c. 1530]

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2020-05-02

🌲 Coloured engravings of heaths:
London: Published by the Author. Printed by T. Bensley, 1802-09 [1830?]
https://t.co/b4T5VPdvEI

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2020-04-29

A lady sits reading by the sea.
A beautifully serene image from the October 1795 issue of Niklaus Heideloff’s periodical ‘Gallery of Fashion’. His beautiful coloured engravings were published between 1794 and 1803.

https://t.co/dYomtHM2ie

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2020-04-26

Desengano dos Peccadores (1735) is a book that wants you to know that you are not going to enjoy Hell, like AT ALL, and it will show you as many bonkers engravings as it takes to make that point. https://t.co/tRzctGRyol

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2020-04-25

Sebald Beham (1500–1550) was a German painter and printmaker, mainly known for his very small engravings.Buße des heiligen Johannes Chrysostomos (Washington)

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2020-04-24

Sebald Beham (1500–1550) was a German painter and printmaker, mainly known for his very small engravings.Adam and Eve, 1543, 82 x 56 mm. Private collection

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2020-04-24

Jacob Christian Schäffer's "Icones insectorvm circa Ratisbonam" contains 280 hand-colored copper engravings illustrating approximately 3,000 insects.

It's also the 1,000th book from our collection uploaded to 's Flickr stream 🎉: https://t.co/MYRd52NDAX

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2020-04-24