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"Dessau"
Souvenir-print
Anonymous steel engravings on one decorative page.
Center: Chateau seen across the Mulde river. From upper left clockwise:
Lusthaus Luiseum, Das Herzogliche Schloss, Das Theater,
Das Stiftsgebaeude, Der Stein zu Woerlitz, Die Schlosskirche

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2022-02-09

"Dessau"

Souvenir-print

Anonymous steel engravings on one decorative page.

Center: Chateau seen across the Mulde river. From upper left clockwise:
Lusthaus Louisium, Das Herzogliche Schloss, Das Theater,
Das Stiftsgebaeude, Der Stein zu Woerlitz, Die Schlosskirche

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2022-02-09

Botanical illustration and the park: The Florist's journal and gardener's record : illustrated with superior coloured engravings, 3 vols, 1846-48......BHL/Smithsonian ..... https://t.co/RrUPv7kErm

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2022-02-02

The Descent. A brilliant claustrophobic shocker I loved to teach.
It works not only with movie imagery, but with the stuff of myth and dreams too. It evokes hellish visions, from Goya to Fuseli, gothic gargoyles and Dore's engravings.
Roger Ebert.

https://t.co/aqRpp98rOY

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2022-01-26

Shagreen Ray
Original hand-colored wood engraving by Jonathan Couch.
Published in London, 1870
Length of Fish. 19. 5 cm
Antique Fish prints by Jonathan Couch
"History of the Fishes of the British Islands"
Original hand-colored wood engravings by Jonathan Couch.
London, 1870

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2022-01-23

Eagle Ray
Original hand-colored wood engraving by Jonathan Couch.
Published in London, 1870
Antique Fish prints by Jonathan Couch
from: "History of the Fishes of the British Islands"
Original hand-colored wood engravings by Jonathan Couch.
Published in London, 1870

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2022-01-23


Published in London, 1870
Antique Fish prints by Jonathan Couch
from: "History of the Fishes of the British Islands"
Original hand-colored wood engravings by Jonathan Couch.
Published in London, 1870
https://t.co/xji5zyBZ4I

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2022-01-23

18th-century engravings depicting 'crazy hairstyles'

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2022-01-22

"Brasilianischer Kalmar Riesenkraken ein Segelschiff ueberfallend"
(attacking a sailing vessel)

Wood engravings printed in color after Denys Montfort ca 1905.

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2022-01-20

This is all about beaks and feet!.
These wood engravings and color lithographs are based on drawings and paintings by Ernest Thompson Seton found in our 1907 edition of 'Bird-Life, A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds,' by American ornithologist Frank M. Chapman

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2022-01-14

One of 72 engravings based on sketches made during Merian's two years in Surinam, South America. Said Merian, "[The pineapple is] the most outstanding of all edible fruits."

🎨 Maria Sibylla Merian, Plate 1, Dissertation in Insect Generations and Metamorphosis in Surinam, 1719

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2022-01-14

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - P is for Agnes Miller Parker (1895– 1980) a Scottish engraver, illustrator and painter. It is for her delightful wood engravings that she is best remembered

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2022-01-13

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - P is for Agnes Miller Parker (1895– 1980) a Scottish engraver, illustrator and painter. It is for her delightful wood engravings that she is best remembered

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2022-01-13

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - P is for Agnes Miller Parker (1895– 1980) a Scottish engraver, illustrator and painter. It is for her delightful wood engravings that she is best remembered

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2022-01-13

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - P is for Agnes Miller Parker (1895– 1980) a Scottish engraver, illustrator and painter. It is for her delightful wood engravings that she is best remembered

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2022-01-13

A Random Alphabet full of Illustrators - P is for Agnes Miller Parker (1895– 1980) a Scottish engraver, illustrator and painter. It is for her delightful wood engravings that she is best remembered

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2022-01-13

My pix, British artist 1738 'Times of the Day: Morning' 1 from the series, of etchings & engravings on paper of London streets, depicting rich & poor, restraint & excess, nature & artifact Exhibited exhibition Britain London until 20/03/22

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2022-01-12

Just as terrifying as...
"Brasilianischer Kalmar Riesenkraken ein Segelschiff ueberfallend"
(attacking a sailing vessel)
Wood engravings printed in color after Denys Montfort ca 1905.

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2022-01-08

Happy Birthday to Gustave
Born this day in 1832
He is best known for his wood-engravings

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2022-01-07

What would have happened to Medusa if nothing bad had happened to her? Without being transformed, she probably would have remained a priestess of Athena, in which case she might have had busts sculpted, or even pottery engravings dedicated to her as a human!

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2021-12-30