“As I turned the fragile pages, I was unable to resist running my cotton-gloved fingers over the hand-coloured engravings. Butterfies danced, caterpillars chewed, glossy metallic cocoons hung suspended from the undersides of the leaves by the slenderest of threads”

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I have to say I do wish more people liked engravings/etchings/prints more. Those have always been some of my faves, but I tend to enjoy more stylized artworks in general...
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Yesterday for World Turtle Day we brought you a broadside with a wood engraving by Alan J Robinson. Today we present wood engravings & etchings of ravens from Robinson’s 1980 Cheloniidae Press edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s dark poem "The Raven." Read more: https://t.co/QUWFDQseyX

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Landscape by Albrecht Dürer, who was born in 1471. While most of his work consisted of oil paintings and woodcut engravings, Dürer also painted a number of watercolour landscapes in his travels to and from Italy, particularly in the Alps of southern Tyrol, Italy.

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"A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland" (1793-95) was the 1st published scientific book dedicated to Australian flora. It features engravings prepared by James Sowerby based partly on drawings by convict artist Thomas Watling: https://t.co/1kdms7YyuG

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For the first Wednesday in May, we present wood engravings and chromolithographs from the May 1904 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/LkuBZVzRCX

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Fear and fascism: illustrations by Lynd Ward from his wordless novel, SONG WITHOUT WORDS: A BOOK OF ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD (1936).

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This week's post features original wood engravings by Alan James Robinson from his printing of 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe, produced at Cheloniidae Press in Easthampton, Massachusetts in 1984. Take a look here: https://t.co/J3KiBMHVXr

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Have an artistic weekend! Come to the and immerse yourself in in our craft gallery; solo shows of prints, drawing, and sculpture by RBSA artists on our ground floor; and an upper-floor retrospective of by Hilary Paynter.

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We currently have these 3 beautiful wood engravings by Neil Bousfield on display in our Cecil Court gallery. Neil's detailed artworks are full of narrative and are created in response to his local landscape. More information can be found on our website: https://t.co/n854x1g0SV

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It's the first Wednesday of the month and you know what that means! Wood engravings and chromoliths from the February 1904 issue of 'Flora and Sylva.' Learn more about the periodical and this series here: https://t.co/Kn5ZCflrsy

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from Monarchia Turecka (10125.f.22.), a in script from 1678 about the structure and of the complete with beautiful of pashas and emirs.

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3/4 "Just as himself worked from Flemish prints and engravings, Parker used the illustrations of McManners' book to serve as inspiration for the final portion of the composition...dynamic characters that interact with one another." The Legacy of Spanish Golden Age Art

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comes easier with a perky cockerel to get you moving! From a collection of wood engravings in books published by The Golden Cockerel Press: John O'Connor, 1937.

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New hand-coloured by inspired by 18th century engravings, includes 'Tea Urn on Legs I'. Now on show until 10 Feb in our group exhibition https://t.co/0vo4sjSXt2

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Happy Though unsigned, the majority of the engravings in "Fragmenta Botanica" (1809) (depicting recent arrivals to the Schönbrunn gardens) are likely the work of J. Scharf, M. Sedelmayer & J. Knapp. View it in via : https://t.co/R41wgHR1Zk

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Allegory of Astronomy (17thC), from the set of seven engravings, The Seven Liberal Arts (Artes Liberales) by Gilles Rousselet (French, 1610–1686); Davison Art Center https://t.co/EcdEVapoob

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‘Cup and Sun’, one of my limited edition wood engravings https://t.co/PHYMhtLuCT

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