"The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety."
🎨  English painter and engraver, 26 October 1764.

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Today we are highlighting a book from our sibling department the : Geographer Julian R. Jackson’s 'Minerals and Their Uses: In a Series of Letters to a Lady' published in London in 1849. It features a hand-colored engraving by Joseph W. Lowry.
https://t.co/KLiY8U5J2o

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Fritz Eichenberg 🇩🇪🇺🇸 (b. 24.10.1901)
'The Steps' (1934)
Wood engraving
15.9 x 12.1 cm

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These are by Gertrude Hermes from the 1920s/30s and are wonderful examples of the art of wood engraving. She taught at the Central School of Art after WWII

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Vase with mythological figures. Very early copper engraving dated1543 by Enea Vico ( born 1523 in Parma, Italy - died 1567 in Ferarra, Italy). Enea Vico signed his initials EA V in the small tablet in the lower left white area. He was famous for his engravings of vases and…

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"Ganterie, Etavillon et details de Gants d'Hommes"
Glove manufacturing of gloves for men
Copper etching by Robert Bernard (1737-1777)
1780-82

"Some Historic Gloves"
Two pages with text and wood engraving images on both sides.
Published 1895.

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"Escrime"

Copper engraving from the Encyclopedia by D. Diderot and J. d'Alembert. It was published in Paris ca 1770.

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"Paraguay - Monographie du Mate - Monographie des Mate"

Hand-colored steel engraving

Published in Paris, 1840
Yerba mate; yerba-maté; Ilex paraguariensis; ka'a; holly genus Ilex; South America; mate straw;

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"Kolumbus sucht das Koeningspaar Ferdinand und Isabella von Spanien im Lager zu Santa Fe vor Granada..."

( In Santa Fe near Granada, Columbus tries to get the support of Ferdinand and Isabella for his exploration plans)

Wood engraving after Franz Kollartz. Published 1879.

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"Eine Opiumkneipe im chinesischen Quartiere zu San Francisco"

Wood engraving published 1879

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From the same anonymous gift we mentioned yesterday is this Literary Guild edition of of English novelist and travel writer Alec Waugh’s travel memoir to tropical regions 'Hot Countries' with wood engravings by Lynd Ward, printed in 1930. Learn more: https://t.co/VDadjYqhxg

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In case the bare text of the parable of Dives & Lazarus [Luke 16:19–31] isn't enough, here's some visualization:

Dives Carried Away by Devils.
Gouache after H. Aldegrever's engraving. Flemish, c.1590.

(V&A Museum, London)

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Halloween series, The Skelly Friend
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Digital illustration
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白い月
White Moon

夜が100日昼が100日続くG星
白昼に白い月が現れると二つの季節を分つ
天空の印となる。








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All in the details 🧐

For this week's discover these engravings by John Everett Millais. Millais was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelites, who created classical, detail-oriented works, like these illustrations of parables.

Have a go now: https://t.co/Kfli44Kbe2

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Medieval engravings - comics about the trends of the future. Insta kitty.
J'adore art. Everything in it.

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LG will be taking part in at the Oct 21 - 31

Her work includes inspired by stone carvings at Gobekli Tepe, a 12,000 yr old Neolithic site in South East Turkey

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देवी दुर्गा महिषासुर मर्दिनी
Devi Durga fight Mahishasur
Handcoloured engravings by Frederic Shoberl from his work 'The World in Miniature: Hindoostan'. London: R. Ackerman, 1820'

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“The Ferry" - wood engraving, George Mackley, 1951.”

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