Engraving ‘Melancholia I’ Albrecht Durer, 1514. The mystery woman ‘is not in a state of depressed inactivity. She is in an intense visionary trance, a state guaranteed against demonic intervention by angelic guidance’. On the wall the magical 4x4 square of Jupiter.

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

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

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

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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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I'm currently working on a weapon sheet for my OC. Here's a look at the engraving details. That weren't shown in the first character sheet.

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