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"The Bostonian’s Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering," London, Robert Sayer and John Bennett, 1774, mezzotint, engraving by Philip Dawe, sold for $47,880 at New York City, April 13-14, 2021

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2021-07-04

John Singleton Copley, btd 1738, foremost American colonial portraitist, taught himself to paint by copying Italian engravings, producing 'Return of Neptune' at age 15! He rarely did mythological subjects later, but 'Venus & Cupid' is a wonderfully warm study of mother & child

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2021-07-03

Love this 1753 engraving of Manila because it captures the scale of the city beyond the walls (extramuros). Bagumbayan, on the lower right hand side of the map, is the site of Luneta/ Rizal Park today.

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2021-07-02



1829 - Liverpool from The Mersey

An engraving by R Brandard from a drawing by Samuel Austin.

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2021-07-01

It's These wood engravings are prints by German-American artist Hans Alexander Mueller from the Limited Editions Club edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 'Kidnapped,' designed and printed in 1938 by Elmer Adler. Learn more: https://t.co/EQaOYlQbHR

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2021-07-01

Some Australian native plants for a sunny humpday: a Bottlebrush on the left and a Banksia on the right

Both are hand-coloured engravings from Curtis' botanical

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2021-06-30

To commemorate the milestone of Charles V's election as Holy Roman Emperor OTD in 1519, we look to his coronation w these images from a facsimile edition of engravings of the procession originally produced in 1535 by Nicolaas Hogenberg. Learn more: https://t.co/MneL9CzBvG

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2021-06-29

Lynd Ward (June 26, 1905 – June 28, 1985) was known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books, such as Gods Man and The Biggest Bear. https://t.co/tEjua04Wyq
https://t.co/LXiJhica0K

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2021-06-27

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2021-06-25

Totally unintentional but my drawing reminds me of this engraving from Goethe’s Faust, just two dudes looking at their homunculi.

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2021-06-23

"King Penguins. - Aptenodytes pennantii"
Wood engraving ca 1890.

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2021-06-23

Engraving of the physical cosmos from Sphaera triplex (1662) by Gabriele Beati, an Italian Jesuit mathematician and 's

(Be sure to read until the end for a cameo by 's Kerry Magruder!)

https://t.co/ORCm4JtLNP

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2021-06-22

Wolverine design.

You can’t read it but engraving reads “SNIKT”.

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2021-06-18

Boydell Shakespeare engravings through the Queen's eyes, modelling feminine viewers interested in sentimental, domestic scenes in the pages of Boydell's print collection, an alternative to the dynamic of the gallery pictures - Rosie Dias

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2021-06-17

Today we present a few of Barry Moser’s wood engravings from his 1984 Pennyroyal Editions printing of Washington Irving’s 'Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.'

Learn more: https://t.co/9h7SvED0ZK

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2021-06-17

To celebrate the final of the Great British here is another gem from our Collections, an 1814 coloured engraving of a Knight of the Garter in his finest dress!🐝

Check out more here 👉https://t.co/zqmkrTbzjP

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2021-06-16

Hadn't seen this particular take on the dance of death before...A bibliophile crushed by his books. A 1785 engraving by Schellenberg. (via https://t.co/NYwj2hCA0G) but you can see the Getty's copy here: https://t.co/qVn492pvNQ

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2021-06-15

"Histoire Naturelle"
"Fig. 1. Elephant...."
Copper engraving from the Encyclopedia by D. Diderot and J. d'Alembert. It was published in Paris ca 1770.

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2021-06-15

Mondays, amirite?

["De zieltogende Anjouse Monarchie." From "A Collection of Dutch political pamphlets, broadsides, and cartoons." Netherlands. 1711. Case Wing folio ZC 1 .185.]

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2021-06-14

Born in 1726 - Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. Here are a few engravings from his book 'The British Zoology', 1766, this edition "published under the inspection of the Cymmrodorion Society".

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2021-06-14