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Fortuna, the #Roman goddess of luck and change, had several iconographic features repeated in the Tarot trump, The Wheel of Fortune. [Fortuna, engraving by Hans Sebald Beham, 1541.] #MythologyMonday https://t.co/UF4P4tbRGM
Johnson's Pedestrian Hobbyhorse Riding School, at No. 377 Strand. Published by Rudolph Ackermann, 10 March 1819.
From [A Collection of 226 Engravings, etc., illustrating London and Environs] Maps C.18.d.6.
The 1820s saw the publication of John’s A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, with engravings like this by William under John’s close supervision (picture: Met)
A gold/Australium Black Rose retexture, done as a commission for @JoeTheMainMan1. It is fully gold (save for the moving bits like the screws). I have given this a custom normalmap to make the etchings from the regular version now into engravings.
DL: https://t.co/pS6UdZex0X
#NewberryLibrary 2/8
4. Peter Apian, Cosmographie, Paris, 1581 (original lead weight!). https://t.co/LbCIowgS3u
5. Vincenzo Capirola, Lute Manuscript, 1517. https://t.co/H1H3ZKcfkV
6. Anonymous, Cordiform Map in Fool’s Cap, engraving, c. 1590. https://t.co/hXwqiyIfIB
#WoodEngravingWednesday by British wood engraver Kathleen Lindsley, which she produced on commission from 1981-83 as pub signs for the Halifax, Yorkshire, brewery Samuel Webster’s numerous public houses. Learn more: https://t.co/dDt2kEBQgD
The Torment of Saint Anthony (c. 1487–88) is the first known painting by Michelangelo, painted as a close copy of the famous engraving by Martin Schongauer when he was only twelve or thirteen years old. (Kimbell Art Museum). #art
For day 2 of our #12DaysofCrustmas an engraving from Catesby, publ. 1731-43.
More about Mark Catesby in our blog by Emma: https://t.co/COwiZ1uDv6 #Crustmas #Early #12DaysOfChristmas #SciArt
Artists' Christmas & New Year greetings; another in an erratic series! Two glorious examples here.
Left, wood engraving, Christmas Card 1957, by Dame Eileen Mayo.
Right, New Year card, 1949, by the same artist, a distinguished printmaker, painter and designer. @deborahjvass
This intriguing image shows science personified as a woman, illuminating nature with her light. Museum ticket from late eighteenth century. Engraving by William Skelton (1763–1848), symbolizing knowledge of the natural world. Source: https://t.co/24UmOGxyZU
The violent side of Melancholy.
Here, Saturn, the God of melancholy, devours one of his sons, while men hang themselves from a tree and man tries to measure the globe with a right angle.
Engraving by Harmen Jansz Muller (1566) after: Maarten van Heemskerck
Winslow Homer’s experience of living at Prouts Neck on the wild Maine coast inspired his interest in painting dramatic seascapes. Here’s Carroll Berry’s engraving of Homer’s house/studio in 1937 ■ as it is today ■ and Homer’s view of the coast in 1896
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@gmacg_1 @HistEnvScot @welovehistory @SLLeisCulture @TheCastleHunter @TheCastleGuy @SMacGal @Fluffy_LeMonde Forgot this amazing coloured engraving of Bothwell! Uploaded as well now
Faintly Unsettling Christmas Cards - an occasional series.
Bells are an uncontroversial choice, but these Bells have naked bellringers visible in the clapper of one bell. NAKED!
1933 Wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton, for the BBC. He married Gertrude Hermes in 1926.
It's #Feathursday! Today we revisit the 6th edition of Thomas Bewick‘s classic field guide 'A History of British Birds,' with his wood engravings of the smaller falcons, a part of what Bewick refers to as “The Falcon Tribe of rapacious birds.” View more: https://t.co/cw58K2IxF8
Masks designed by influential sculptor and architect Cornelis Floris and engraved by Frans Huys (1555)
#art #sculture #architecture #engraving
@DrFrancisYoung @GEMMS_sermons @EcclesHistSoc @burgonsoc Yes, academic garb was considered less controversial, #Puritans greatly valued #education, so maintained the hierarchical dress-code of the universities. There were, of course, slight variations between BAs, Masters, Senior Fellows & DD's as these 1674 David Logan engravings show