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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

9 June 1449: Mary of Guelders leaves Sluys in a fleet of 14 ships. She & James II of were married on 3 July at Holyrood. The engraving below is of a tableau vivant depicting their marriage mounted in 1642 at Queen Henrietta Maria’s entry to (BM)

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2020-06-09

Seen several finches today close to my home. I love this 17th c. engraving of a finch, 1688 - 1698.

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2020-06-07

Engraving of Corra Linn with lovely detail of the castle and the mill. Dates from 1821

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2020-06-06

It's the Day of Kronos / /

Engraving showing a statue of Saturnus standing naked on a socle, holding a scythe in his right hand and a child in his left hand.
After Jacques Jonghelinck, 1586

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2020-06-06

What do these engravings of the French surrender in the Battle of Sedan, 1870, have to do with the Gate of Zedan in Zeta? Listen to our latest ep. to find out, and catch up before this week's ep. releases! At https://t.co/xh4eoPgPMJ or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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2020-05-29

James Barry, Orpheus (Etching and line engraving on paper), 1792.

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2020-05-29

didoofcarthage:

Detail of a frontispiece after Richard Westall for Paradise Lost, from The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by Samuel Egerton Brydges

English, published in London in 1835

engraving and etching, printed on chine collé

British Muse… https://t.co/54rRC48Bms

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2020-05-28

His landscapes are a harmonious marriage of wondrous skies & carefully observed trees & fields. Sunset (Engraving, 1850), Harvesting (1851) & Landscape with Watermill (c1855)

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2020-05-25

This "Judgment of Solomon" sold as Flemish school XVIIth is a copy after Coornherts engraving based on Frans Floris painting.

Also starting price is overestimated
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2020-05-24

Preorder open!
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🦋$25
🦋2in
🦋Hard enamel
🦋Rose gold plating
🦋Glitter front
🦋Screen printing
🦋laser engraving
🦋Hinge pin

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2020-05-22

The revolutionary printmaker and painter Albrecht was born in 1471. Influenced by the Italian Renaissance, Dürer was fascinated by the human form. His mastery is demonstrated in this 1504 engraving.
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Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504. Engraving#FrickCollection

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2020-05-22

21 May 1471 – German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg.

The master printmaker produced brilliantly detailed engravings like these examples https://t.co/N4IIpoL1de

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2020-05-21

Engravings and ink- can’t ever just settle on a character design, always another “BUT WHAT IF,,,”

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2020-05-21

One final B is for ... Bridges. The original Wearmouth Bridge opened in 1796. Constructed at a cost of £35,000, it was claimed to have the largest arch in the world. Engraving courtesy of .

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2020-05-19