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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

“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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2020-04-16

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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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