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It's wood-engraving Wednesday! This week we return to the wood engravings of Michael McCurdy from a collection of his early prints published as Toward the Light by The Porcupine’s Quill. The theme this week is McCurdy’s portraits of literary figures. More: https://t.co/UVVYTTanhP

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2020-07-16

Two engravings by Reynolds Stone for The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch

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2020-07-15

The Men's Bath
Woodcut engraving printed on paper
Albrecht

https://t.co/iJgVNDTq96

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2020-07-15

This stylized portrait somehow reminds me of Ray Charles. But actually it is 's on Instagram.

And -- what a coincidence! -- it's an album cover!

Engraving by geekatplay
https://t.co/IEEmQnyeI4

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2020-07-11

Elizabeth Blackwell's 'A Curious Herbal' (1737) was an unprecedented enterprise for a woman of her time
To survive and pay her jailed husband's debts she produced this beautiful herbal; drawing, engraving and illustrating it single handedly

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2020-07-08

Since Chi’s annual display of fireworks-exploding-out-of-a-giant-lion have been canceled this year due to COVID, we hope this engraving can provide an adequate substitute.

[Fireworks for the entry of Louis XIII. Pierre Faber. 1623. Wing folio ZP 639.J85]

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2020-07-04

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison, many of which were published as large, color stipple engravings.🌼

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2020-06-27

For we've got some wood engravings of vegetation from American wood engraver and book artist Michael McCurdy’s retrospective collection 'Toward the Light,' published in Erin, Ontario by The Porcupine’s Quill in 1982. Learn more here: https://t.co/BxHP9CPm6E

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2020-06-26

This week we combine our two Wednesday series, Flora and Sylva and Wood Engraving Wednesday with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy from a collection of his early prints published as 'Toward the Light by The Porcupine’s Quill' in 1982. Learn more here: https://t.co/8v3fs8QmIE

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2020-06-25

We interview Mark James from about pioneering botanist Joseph Banks in our Banks sailed to Australia with Captain Cook & recorded 1,300 previously undocumented botanical species, resulting in engravings like these.
https://t.co/2SETAyerJr

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2020-06-25

Mercury in his chariot, riding across the heavens. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos. Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603. Wellcome Collection.

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2020-06-22

These alien landscapes are actually engravings of the Western US. There's some pretty weird geology out there but I think this exaggerates. https://t.co/9SYzBj6ow0

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2020-06-21

I posted 4 of Hilary's today. They appear with 4 others in my publication of Carol Ann Duffy's 'Eight World's Wives'. Hilary has done the engravings for 4 of my publications.

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2020-06-21

Frankenstein's monster. Wood engravings by Lynd Ward, 1934.

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2020-06-18

The Torment of Saint Anthony (or The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c. 1487–88) by demons is the earliest known painting by Michelangelo (1st picture), painted as a close copy of the famous engraving by Martin Schongauer (2nd picture) when he was only 12 or 13 years old.

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2020-06-16

I had my own yesterday, not knowing there was such a thing. It's today apparently and a fine excuse for this quartet from Ravilious. Top left to bottom left 'Chalk Paths', 'Cuckmere Haven' , 'The Long Man' watercolour, 1939 & same 1929, wood engraving print on paper.

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2020-06-16

Ian Hugo’s line engravings on copper in Anaïs Nin’s Under a Glass Bell (hand-printed by Nin’s own Gemor Press, 1944).

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2020-06-10