Botanical illustration and the park: The Florist's journal and gardener's record : illustrated with superior coloured engravings, 3 vols, 1846-48......BHL/Smithsonian ..... https://t.co/RrUPv7kErm

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"Metallurgie, Fer Blanc"
Weissblech, Blechdosen, Tin, Hoja de Lata, Bianco, Forging, Schmieden
Copper engraving from the Encyclopedia by D. Diderot and J: L'Ambert.
Published in Paris in several editions ca 1770.

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With the invention of the Gutenberg printing press in 1440, printmaking flourished. exploited a nascent consumer culture with the medium of woodcutting and engraving: disseminating his work cheaply and quickly, print ensured he had an unusually broad audience.

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Georg Dionysius Ehret, one of the most influential of all times was in 1708. This beautiful engraving meticulously depicting a colorful banana flower is from 'Plantae selectae', a book published in 1750 https://t.co/FusgQ1iHUL

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Hand-coloured engraving showing a southern brown kiwi in a landscape, captioned "Apteryx australis". Published in Germany, 1842. Source: National Library of NZ

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While on a goosse chase trying to find the original engraving of Aiptasia on for our Blaschka Database...I found this thing on an expedition on the Thetis in 1824 https://t.co/XcQD9AIW1b. Any biologist to explain what's going on there?

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Does Clotho, one of the Moirai or 3 Fates in count as a goddess of clothing? Yes or no? Thank you to the Museum of New Zealand for making this 1558 Giorgio Ghisi engraving available for use. y

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Former Exeter Royal Albert Memorial Museum curator Hal Bishop introduced us once again to a wood engraver we are unfamiliar with, English artist Joan Ellis, in an essay from Matrix 17, published in Winter 1997. Learn more: https://t.co/8Bx2XpQv0X

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I have an Etsy shop :D
https://t.co/AT1DajmVpA
I only have 4 designs up atm but I'll be adding more when I made more. The designs are digital and are for shirt printing or laser engraving.

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The Descent. A brilliant claustrophobic shocker I loved to teach.
It works not only with movie imagery, but with the stuff of myth and dreams too. It evokes hellish visions, from Goya to Fuseli, gothic gargoyles and Dore's engravings.
Roger Ebert.

https://t.co/aqRpp98rOY

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From the 1861 illustrated edition of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’. Engraving by M. Gustave Doré.

https://t.co/uo19EDaioK

"Lo!" he exclaim'd, "lo! Dis: and lo! the place,
Where thou hast need to arm thy heart with strength."
-Canto XXXIV., lines 20,21.

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A copy by the young Michelangelo after an engraving by Martin Schongauer around 1487–1489, The Torment of Saint Anthony.

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Shagreen Ray
Original hand-colored wood engraving by Jonathan Couch.
Published in London, 1870
Length of Fish. 19. 5 cm
Antique Fish prints by Jonathan Couch
"History of the Fishes of the British Islands"
Original hand-colored wood engravings by Jonathan Couch.
London, 1870

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Eagle Ray
Original hand-colored wood engraving by Jonathan Couch.
Published in London, 1870
Antique Fish prints by Jonathan Couch
from: "History of the Fishes of the British Islands"
Original hand-colored wood engravings by Jonathan Couch.
Published in London, 1870

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Published in London, 1870
Antique Fish prints by Jonathan Couch
from: "History of the Fishes of the British Islands"
Original hand-colored wood engravings by Jonathan Couch.
Published in London, 1870
https://t.co/xji5zyBZ4I

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New Blogpost! World renowned illustrator, Steven Noble (), is celebrating 31 years and 4,000+ illustrations.

Read the blogpost and to view his latest, outstanding projects: https://t.co/mo6BtqKp2n

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