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“Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenomena, Etc. with a short description annexed to each plate” (1849). Coloured wood engravings by J. W. Whymper (Whimper).

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2020-04-21

RT : This famous satirical work The Passions, Humourously Delineated by Tim Bobbin”, the caricaturist John Collier (1708-1786) contains 26 hand coloured engravings.

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2020-04-20

It's interesting how often you stumble across ancient silent films, magazines, and 1800s engravings that feature women just causally beating the tar out of men..... Being socially conditioned not to defend yourself against violent women is not a new thing for men.

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2020-04-18

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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Engravings from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705) by naturalist and scientific illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian.

Merian was born 1647. Further details about her remarkable life: https://t.co/dvqS0lc41j

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2020-04-02

This was one of several engravings of whales made after Goltzius's designs. A washed up whale was an interesting opportunity to study the creature, but could also be interpreted as an ill omen, as often emphasized in the accompanying text on such illustrated broadsides.

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2020-04-02

While selecting images for last week’s post on the wood engravings of Agnes Miller Parker, we came across this lovely engraving of a Barn Owl nestled in a bower above a churchyard for the 1938 Limited Editions Club printing of Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

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2020-03-31

For our final artist in the challenge on this we present work by the outstanding Scottish wood engraver Agnes Miller Parker. These engravings are from Thomas Gray‘s, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' published by the Limited Editions Club.

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2020-03-28

OTD in 1895 the artist Agnes Parker Miller was born Irvine.

In the 1930s Agnes became well known for her wood-engravings for book illustrations.

Agnes moved to Glasgow in 1955 and lived on Arran for a period of time before dying in 1980.

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This emotive work by French painter shows two soldiers tending to the dog of the regiment, wounded in battle. This picture was among the artist's most popular works. The critic Sainte-Beuve later remembered engravings of them 'in every shop window'.

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2020-03-25

Young botanists and the park: ebook......The young botanists in thirteen dialogues with twelve coloured engravings.......https://t.co/dXOfzheHys

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2020-03-21

Moser’s engravings look haunting. Definitely one to check out before All Hallows’ Eve. The story looks like it might give off some ‘Gary Crew’ vibes. Have you read, Laura?

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2020-03-21

There is a deal of softness to Spring eg pussywillow, but these two women artists find a balancing "edge" in these superb wood engravings.

Gertrude Hermes (left) A spring bouquet,
1929
Monica Poole (right) Spring, 1988

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2020-03-20

A commission I made a few days ago for
Varyn, the half-drow (I had a blast designing all the engravings on the leather armor!)

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2020-03-17

One of the joys of looking for one artist's work is accidentally finding another's. It was a delight to find some of Brian Hope-Taylor's wood engravings in this way.

These illustrations are from "The Lake & the Woods", 1951.

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2020-03-13

9 March 1845: Dickens has been to the Vatican, where the art is all rather familiar. He writes to Forster "The most famous of the oil paintings in the Vatican you know through the medium of the finest line-engravings in the world..."

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2020-03-09

Tonight's goodnight image is 'Stooking', a print from a wood engraving by the rather brilliant Clare Leighton, whose 'Four Hedges' has been re-issued by
and contains many of her wood engravings.

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2020-03-07

First time we are showing his engravings are equisite.
our Collectors show opens Saturday

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2020-03-05

Just discovered this small book with gorgeous 1941 wood engravings by Irish artist Robert Gibbings. Reading about him, ‘David Attenborough remembers Gibbings as being one of the inspiring influences at the start of his career’ https://t.co/xuzeOPmOKE

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2020-02-15

James Sowerby's "English Botany", issued in 267 monthly parts & featuring nearly 2,600 hand-colored engravings, was the most comprehensive, illustrated flora of Great Britain available at the time. 3rd ed. (1863-1886) in ➡️ https://t.co/wQPbjzTSrb

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2020-02-11