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"Tiger posts a bad opinion online"
-Samuel Howett & Edward Orme, Hand Coloured, Aquatint Engravings, 1807

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2019-10-22

This image is from Lusus Poeticus Poetis, a book of poetry by 17thC poet Edward Bendlowes. Born to a wealthy Catholic family, Bendlowes made a name for himself as an arts patron & poet. He drew on his resources to commission engravings (like this one) illustrating his poems.

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2019-10-16

Hogarth: Place and Progress - like meeting up with some old friends. A Rake’s Progress (1734), Four Times of Day (1736-7), The Humours of an Election (1754-5). Exhibition brings all his series paintings and engravings together for the first time.

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2019-10-09

16th century Dutch engravings of an owl dressed as a pilgrim and another as a soldier.

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2019-10-08

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

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2019-10-03

Illustrations and scratch engravings are my thing. :D

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2019-09-23

19th century
Two marsupials pause on the spidery roots of a pandanus tree to watch ichthyosaur and plesiosaur prepare for battle. The scene, an for The Popular Encyclopedia (1888), features elements from several engravings by Riou.

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2019-08-30

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