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

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'And straight the trunk exclaim'd,"pluck'st thou me?"
-Canto XIII., line 34.

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Tonight's goodnight image is 'Autumn Fruits', Gertrude Hermes, print from a wood engraving, 1935.
Sleep tight.

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New artwork for sale! - "Anne Boleyn's uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, scan of original 1600s engraving after Holbein the Younger" - https://t.co/HKhNeSVavo

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Hard and tedious work before the printing press:
"Vervielfaltigung geistiger Erzeugnisse mittelst Diktirens und Nachschreibens in alt römischer Zeit"
(Duplication of intellectual material by dictation and rewriting in old Roman times)
Wood engraving after H, Merte. Published 1879

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Just as terrifying as...
"Brasilianischer Kalmar Riesenkraken ein Segelschiff ueberfallend"
(attacking a sailing vessel)
Wood engravings printed in color after Denys Montfort ca 1905.

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Happy Birthday to Gustave
Born this day in 1832
He is best known for his wood-engravings

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Born French artist Gustave Dore French & Prodigy at 5 & for French paper Le journal pour rire at 15 Wood-engraving was primary medium & won commissions to illustrate new illustrated Bible + …

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"Die Butter und Kaese Austellung in New York"
(the butter and cheese exhibition in New York)

Wood engraving published 1879. On the reverse side is an article (in German)
about the butter and cheese exhibition.

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"Ein Schweinemarkt in Ireland"

Wood engraving of a pig market in Ireland. Published 1879.

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Greenland Shark
Length of Fish. 20 cm (7.8")
Original hand-colored steel engraving by Jonathan Couch.
Published in London, 1870

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There's a talented artist about my collection . The first time I saw the work on , it reminded me of a Durer engraving, so painstakingly and expertly done, and when I found out that it was made entirely from code, I was delighted.

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& engraving them into his memory. As if NK were his idol & he is biggest fan. He's been studying NK like the most interesting of treatises in his library.There is always this pissed jealousy laced with sadness when he realizes that someone knows about his lover things he does not

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The Death of Tipu Sultan - One event but different versions of paintings.

1. By David Wilkie, 1843.
Source :

2. By Henry Singleton, c.1800
Source:

3. By Samuel William Reynolds, 1800.
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4. An engraving from 1804.

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Bas-relief from the Arch of Constantine
Nicolas Beatrizet the Younger
Prints, Engraving
Italian, 16th century

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2/2 Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus would freeze. But - is this a painting? A drawing? An engraving? Brilliantly crossing media boundaries, it's Hendrick Goltzius in 1603.

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The lady boss that pays respect to the New Year with a dance of snow, moon and flowers. When attacking, she applies "Engraving of the Blade" to her targets, which powers up her UB and her skills, letting her cut down her enemies faster than the eye can see

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What would have happened to Medusa if nothing bad had happened to her? Without being transformed, she probably would have remained a priestess of Athena, in which case she might have had busts sculpted, or even pottery engravings dedicated to her as a human!

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"Nova et accurata Ducatus Venetiani, Mediolani, Genuae, Mantuae et finitimorum principatum delineatio."
Copper engraving map by Mattheus Merian.
Hand colored.
Published ca 1640.
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"Mademoiselle Lefort, a bearded lady exhibited in Spring Gardens, 1818." Published for R. S. Kirby, Warwick Lane, London. 1819. British. Stipple engraving. via https://t.co/hyo89uhqcG.

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