Engravings of babies in the womb from the 17th-18th century

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Two Cape Cod Views: 'Clam Diggers, Cape Cod', and 'Oyster Houses, Wellfleet', Clare Veronica Hope Leighton, wood engravings on paper, 1946 and 1948-53 respectively.

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Another chance to hear Michael Longley - In conversation with Andrew Motion at The Edward Thomas Literary fest. . In 2014 I published 'Coming Home' Andrew's poems with engravings by Jane Lydbury. I'll soon publish my 4th book with Michael. https://t.co/1i8YIBnM3i

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for my irl buddy, she has been a total hero to me for the last few days and even want to collab with me soon with her wood ingraving work.

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Hi I’m Yumi and I draw dragons and furries. I sometimes paint birds and do engraving.
Some artist that deserves love💙:
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What a lovely scene. The talking parrot and the daintily singing canary - Since there is no canary bird far and wide the engraving and the poem refrs to the charming lady sitting in the middle ground playing the flute.
https://t.co/BQqnFTyEID

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Engraving by François-Nicolas Martinet from an anonymous Chinese drawing, featured in Edme Billardon-Sauvigny's Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine (1780).

Available as a print in our online shop: https://t.co/CXxpoMUYis

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Coloured engravings from an 18th century survey of apples and pears by Dutch author Johann Hermann Knoop. https://t.co/XyRHqSQSp1

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“Marcus Curtius holding out a baton and riding on a rearing horse” Hendrick GoltziusEngraving, 1586

Ruins of the Abbey of Jumièges, Jean Truchot

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This engraving from her 1680 ‘New Book of Flowers’ was promoted for botanical study, but Merian understood how it could & would be used as a pattern book if she made the prints pattern-like, transferable to textile.

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Merian is best known as a printmaker, botanical artist & entomologist (just a few things!), but like most 17th c. women, she was trained in needlepoint and fabric making from about age 8. Here's an early, gorgeous (!!!) hand-coloured engraving from the 1670s

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May I present how art process & materials impact content?

Käthe Kollwitz, Woman w/ dead child (1903)

1. Charcoal & white chalk on paper
2. Soft-ground etching
3. Etching w/ engraving overprinted lithographically w/ gold tone plate

More https://t.co/xonYQREvVb

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The ending song plays, accompanied with illustrations of the once happy moments of Mt Suzuka

the song title can be roughly translated into: "engravings at the foot of a mountain"

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ok, STILL working on this design. how does this look?? the messy red scribbles are just me testing how red engravings would look so dont judge my beautiful designs

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Not all Agnes Miller Parker's cats were quite so fierce. These gentler souls are very handsome. Though there do seem to be some strange farmyard shenanigans going on in the background!

Wood engraving, Two Siamese Cats, c1939.

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Learn how to add intricate, realistic engravings when drawing armor and weapons with illustrator Mirjam Löfgren!
https://t.co/XIXl0S660g

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Gyrfalcon, Falco rusticolus, hand-colored engraving, 1827-1838 by John James Audubon

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