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The Ukrainian Sergey Kirnitskiy is one of the best-known artists currently working in the area of engravings for bookplates, one of the few areas where erotic illustration is still alive. We'd love to see him illustrate a whole book! See his work at https://t.co/19mLBkt8tT.

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2020-07-29

The Ukrainian Sergey Kirnitskiy is one of the best-known artists currently working in the area of engravings for bookplates, one of the few areas where erotic illustration is still alive. We'd love to see him illustrate a whole book! See his work at https://t.co/19mLBkt8tT.

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2020-07-29

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840) was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison, many of which were published as large, color stipple engravings.

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2020-07-26

Birds' nests & eggs : with directions for preparing, stuffing, and mounting birds and animals : with thirteen engravings and diagrams, and a coloured illustration of the eggs of British pet eggs

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2020-07-21

It's wood-engraving Wednesday! This week we return to the wood engravings of Michael McCurdy from a collection of his early prints published as Toward the Light by The Porcupine’s Quill. The theme this week is McCurdy’s portraits of literary figures. More: https://t.co/UVVYTTanhP

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2020-07-16

Two engravings by Reynolds Stone for The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch

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2020-07-15

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison, many of which were published as large, color stipple engravings.🌼

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2020-06-27

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