Fiji Orange Dove (Ptilinopus victor); hand-coloured engraving from 'Report on the scientific results of the voyage of HMS Challenger during the years 1873-76’.
[A good example of how birds have mostly been named for the male of the species.

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Hello it's Lovely engraving by Thomas Bewick for the ballad 'On a Bank of Flowers'. Catnatch's The Poetical Works,1808. In Archive . Listen to it 👉 https://t.co/aJTgf8BWXM

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Execution by firing squad of a Pashtun ghazi at the Peshawur Gate in Jellalabad during the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War.

Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 8 February 1879. Wood engraving by W.I. Mosses after W.H. Overend.

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Peace bringing back Abundance
Pierre Viel, Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Prints, Engraving
French, 1787

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Could you imagine being in a kayak surrounded by Narwhals? Sure they're basically the unicorns of the sea, but this would probably be a terrifying experience! 🦄 This hand-colored engraving is from The Naturalist's Library, by Robert Hamilton and published in 1839

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1878 Wood Engraving Carriage with Lady
Bullock cart or Ox driven cart?
such beautifull carts were in use back then for transport
lot of craft handicraft was involved, science-technology too
not everyone could make or repair these carts
seems Maharashtra?
https://t.co/3cEEIzk11T

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The Bug Hotel on prompts me to post this Ravilious tonight: Wood-engraving for Ambrose Heath's The Country Life cookery book,1937. The original artwork is in the collection of .

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Directly imported from China, shunga refers to a form of ukiyo-e-style engravings dedicated to eroticism that were particularly popular in the Edo period (1600–1868). Literally, the term shunga (春 画), derived from the Chinese chungonghua, translates to "images of spring"

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Download zip file of high-res 18th c. hand-painted engravings of medicinal plants. "It was highly praised by leading physicians and apothecaries." via The British Library, Catalogues & Collections.
https://t.co/uEaz27MRDx

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Some fairy-tale images are forever, & Doré’s 1862 wood-engravings, for The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, are just that to me. I love the gothic arch of trees & tangled growth that the prince must face alone. Doré always cast a spell.
☺️📚💫🪡👑🥀💕

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My picture, 1795 two ladies in delicate white gown fabrics, highlighting their high waist-line, Décolletage finished by a soft fichu. A Nicolaus Heideloff artist illustration hand-coloured engraving costume plates series "Gallery of Fashion" Some of his plates are at the

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Nitty Gritty. "Fancy Works" Originally hand-colored copper stipple engraving https://t.co/Hb0heMleNk

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I hope you all had a fruitful/relaxing day. I'll bid you goodnight with 'Stooking: August', Clare Leighton, wood engraving, 1933.
Sleep tight.

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IM ENGRAVING THIS IN MY MEMORY FORERVER

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I did this like so fast and it’s so rough but. do u think that lake would get tattoos by engraving patters into her arms or inlaying like gold and stuff. because I do 😳

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Coloured full-page 16th century engravings from the King's Library copy of Ippolito Salviani, Aquatilium Animalium Historiæ liber primus, Romæ, 1554, 41.i.10,

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Thanks to you all for a brilliant start to today's
This is signing off now, but we'll be back in just 60 mins with the epic !
(Image: 19th century engraving of Homunculus from Goethe's Faust part II. I'd like this job...)

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I've done this illustration based on an engraving I made back in 2019✨✨✨

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Well, it looks like I've found a new

(Detail of a hand-colored engraving from LHL's copy of Kaspar Maria von Sternberg's Versuch der Flora der Vorwelt: https://t.co/5o1OqEaQlq)

https://t.co/MoqxLOlwYC

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