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.
Hello it's #BurnsNight. Lovely engraving by Thomas Bewick for the ballad 'On a Bank of Flowers'. Catnatch's The Poetical Works,1808. In @NEE_Naturalist Archive @GNM_Hancock. Listen to it 👉 https://t.co/aJTgf8BWXM
Peace bringing back Abundance
Pierre Viel, Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Prints, Engraving
French, 1787
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 #MarinerMoment
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
The Bug Hotel on @BBCSpringwatch #Winterwatch 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 @royalacademy.
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"
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
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.
☺️📚💫🪡👑🥀💕
#FairyTaleTuesday #fairytale
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 @V_and_A
Nitty Gritty. "Fancy Works" Originally hand-colored copper stipple engraving https://t.co/Hb0heMleNk
I hope you all had a fruitful/relaxing day. I'll bid you goodnight with 'Stooking: August', Clare Leighton, wood engraving, 1933.
Sleep tight.
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 😳
#InfinityTrain
Coloured full-page 16th century #FridayFish engravings from the King's Library copy of Ippolito Salviani, Aquatilium Animalium Historiæ liber primus, Romæ, 1554, 41.i.10, @britishlibrary
Thanks to you all for a brilliant start to today's #FolkloreThursday!
This is @DeeDeeChainey signing off now, but we'll be back in just 60 mins with the epic @HerbalStorytell!
(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✨✨✨
#OC #Digital #ArtistOnTwitter #illustration
Well, it looks like I've found a new #ZoomBackground!
(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)
#paleoart #sciart #histSTM https://t.co/MoqxLOlwYC