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"Toning the Bell" (1874) by Walter Shirlaw (1838-1909), who was a Scottish-born American painter, banknote engraver and teacher. The page of studies shows the construction of the violin, how the left hand needs to finger the strings, and a couple options for the bow hand.

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2020-09-05

‘W Thomas’ is, I think, the engraver. The original artist is listed as F W Keyl (a big painter of dogs & cattle apparently):
https://t.co/68iZFwLTqU
The book says it contains ‘engravings on wood from drawings by eminent artists’
& you’re right there’s something on the leaf ..

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2020-08-30

He was born into an elite family of WASP background. He turned down Harvard to take a job in accounting, but left to be an engraver. He then started painting in watercolour. Spanish Steps (1883), Alhambra (c1883) & Village (1882-5)

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2020-08-28

Today's new artist is the great French engraver Alméry Lobel-Riche. Nobody knew better how to capture the nuances of the human body, and most were unaware of his more erotic works! You can see them all at https://t.co/TEPLYExnbq. Enjoy!

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2020-08-21

Today's new artist is the great French engraver Alméry Lobel-Riche. Nobody knew better how to capture the nuances of the human body, and most were unaware of his more erotic works! You can see them all at https://t.co/pzA0jcZAjQ. Enjoy!

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2020-08-20

Good Morning Everyone.
Our first four today are courtesy of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) He was a Wood Engraver ,Painter, Designer and Book Illustrator.
A favourite of mine and a very important artist. Sadly died when as a war artist the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland

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2020-08-18

Work by Eric Ravilious (1903–1942) A British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver.

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2020-07-10

Having used the Arcane Engraver to mark runes upon her flesh, Aenai is able to use a arsenal of spells and powers at will. Having turned her body into a powerful weapon.

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2020-07-10

For we've got three avian prints with examples of their preliminary drawings, from 'Endangered Species, and Other Fables with a Twist' by the noted German-American wood engraver, illustrator, and educator Fritz Eichenberg. See more here: https://t.co/NW1zwGe8mC

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2020-07-10

Charles Grignion the Younger (1754–1804) was a British history and portrait painter and engraver.

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2020-07-08

Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
And damned be him that first cries, “Hold, enough!”

Macbeth A5Sc8
Shakespeare



Illustrator: HC Selous
Engraver: Frederick Wentworth

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2020-06-28

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

is by L R Brightwell for Reynard the Fox, told by C S Evans (1926?). Leonard Brightwell was an animal artist of note, an engraver, printmaker and painter too. Here, that most pesky of foxes chats to an aloof cat. Could almost be and Peter!

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2020-06-24

Roberto Iras Baldessari (March 23, 1894 - June 22, 1965) was an Italian painter and engraver

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2020-06-22

W Steelink(1856-1928)Dutch painter/graphic artist, associated w/the Laren School. Father was well-known painter/engraver who gave him his 1st lessons. From 1873 2 1879, studied w/BWijnveld @ the Rijksakademie. Went 2 Antwerp, studied @ the Royal Academy of Fine Arts w/C Verlat.

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2020-06-17

Bernard Picart (11 June 1673 – 8 May 1733) was a French engraver.Ηρακλής achelous in the shape of a bull

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2020-06-12

"A Curious Herbal Antique Botanical Illustration", 1737 by Scottish botanical illustrator/author and engraver Elizabeth Blackwell

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2020-06-06