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Botanical illustration and the park: The florists' journal and gardener's record : illustrated with superior coloured engravings .......by RCH Groombridge et al.....3 vols, BHL/Smithsonian .https://t.co/tkt8ok8zB4

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2021-01-05

I’ve just added 20 large Anatomical Engravings to the our shop. These beautifully macabre engravings by William Fairland were published in 1837, the detail in them is exquisite, measuring 50 x 31cm.
Only £20 each, freepost within the UK!
💀🖤🥀

https://t.co/4G1OJt2xC8

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2021-01-04

Fortuna, the 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.] https://t.co/UF4P4tbRGM

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2021-01-04

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.

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2021-01-03

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)

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2021-01-02

Its an engraving from a collection of Poetry which is indeed in the Public Domain - the book itself doesn't even credit who did it, as far as I can tell. https://t.co/26tkzYvEtr

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2020-12-29

A gold/Australium Black Rose retexture, done as a commission for . 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

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2020-12-29

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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

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2020-12-25

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

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2020-12-24

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).

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2020-12-22

For day 2 of our an engraving from Catesby, publ. 1731-43.
More about Mark Catesby in our blog by Emma: https://t.co/COwiZ1uDv6

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2020-12-21

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.

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2020-12-20

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

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2020-12-18

Great Lion
Jacques de Gheyn II
Prints, Engraving
Dutch, c. 1590

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2020-12-18

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

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2020-12-14

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
https://t.co/oWcmfMk6rG

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2020-12-14

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.

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2020-12-11

Ooo found the perfect gift for when all you want to say with your DnD character is memento mori.

It definitely suits my necromancer/cleric of the life&death domain💀💀💀

(, engraving Memento Mori, 2012.3)

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2020-12-11

It's 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

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2020-12-11