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This week's staff pick comes from Max, our Head of Special Collections. He's chosen 'Wrenching Times, Poems from Drum-Taps by Walt Whiman,' with original color wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec & printed by the iconic Welsh press Gwasg Gregynog in 1991. https://t.co/1lVj0UXHOS

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2019-08-16

For we're showing wood engravings from Augustus A. Gould's 'The Naturalist’s Library' (1850s). Learn more in our Tumblr post: https://t.co/qkM98pjlqs
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2019-08-13

Illustrator Nicolas Delort uses a scratchboard in a manner which evokes the engravings of Here's his take on the classic Éowyn vs Witch-king encounter - A Woman's Courage. Yes, there are uncanonical details, but look at that dismount from the Witch-king...

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2019-08-01

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Emily Brontë, author of 'Wuthering Heights.' This edition was published in 1931 by Random House and features 12 wood engravings by Clare Leighton.

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2019-07-31

Updated Sunn's ref a bit

Gave him some engravings, updated his halberd, and fixed his cape design.

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2019-07-25

So let's start with the incredible cursed pirates of 2 by the artist Crash McCreey.
McCreery (Jurassic Park, Batman etc..) comes from the Stan Winston School. He designed the pirates inspired by the old engravings of the nineteenth century. This is glorious.

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2019-07-22

Today is the day we celebrate the Serpentes, those long, scaly, cold-blooded, legless squamates. In celebration, we present a few chromolithographs and wood engravings of snakes doing what snakes do: threatening, crushing, swallowing things, and just hanging out, looking cool.

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2019-07-17

Artists Illustrate The White Whale presents 28 screen prints & engravings by Frank Convey, Will Maclean, Debbie Lee & more, illustrating classic tale. On view this Mon during our sale viewing. Learn more: https://t.co/di3WEbU5R8

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2019-06-15

For the month of June, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the June 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review for Lovers of Gardens, Woodland, Tree or Flower.' Learn more here: https://t.co/JRILIQUv0I

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2019-06-06

Here's some for ya! They come from our mid-19th-century edition of 'The Naturalist’s Library,' edited by noted American physician and naturalist Augustus Addison Gould, and published in New York with 400 engravings. More owls here: https://t.co/VsGuonkwXl

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2019-05-14

Knight, Death and the Devil (German: Ritter, Tod und Teufel) is a large 1513 engraving by the German artist Albrecht Dürer, one of the three Meisterstiche (master prints) completed during a period when he almost ceased to work in paint or woodcuts to focus on engravings.

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2019-04-18

A mermaid illustration I did a couple of months ago, inspired by old woodcuts and engravings

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2019-04-15

I have never seen these Alphonse Mucha pieces! These are the wood engravings for reproduction from an 1897 issue of La Plume. Source: https://t.co/oy0EiF3xDp

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2019-04-12

Such sweet little details in an already beautiful book: the first edition of von Trebra's Erfahrungen vom Innern der Gebirge, 1785, a geognostic description of the Harz Mountains with hand-coloured engravings showing people out and about in the countryside https://t.co/kiADyvSrGR

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2019-04-04

For the month of April, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the April 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review.' Learn more here: https://t.co/q6gtpFFo3e

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2019-04-04

Spring has sprung 🌿💐 Beautiful copper engravings by British author and Dr. John Hill, which were published in his illustrated compendium "The British Herbal" (1756)🌼🌹
Visit https://t.co/u98v0VvIbO or pop upstairs at The Map House and peruse the collection

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2019-03-25

For the month of March, we present wood engravings, photogravures, and chromolithographs from the March 1905 issue of the early 20th-century periodical 'Flora and Sylva, A Monthly Review.' Learn more here: https://t.co/f3gDyGNhF9

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2019-03-07

Spiking at in the last couple of days have been the witty and brilliantly executed engravings of Marcel Vertès. If you haven't already, do head over to https://t.co/LcFdbo976T and enjoy his irreverent take on the underbelly of 'polite society'. Enjoy! 😘

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2019-03-02