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Tuesday's Art: "Purgatory" (1960) by Salvador Dalí, The Divine Comedy, Purgatory Dante Purified; wood engraving https://t.co/AXVFasKhAU

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2020-04-21

B is for Beer. Served in a creamware mug, Staffordshire, c.1765, ; and for its benefits see an engraving Beer Street, Hogarth, 1751, but also Thanks

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2020-04-21

“Thirty Plates Illustrative of Natural Phenomena, Etc. with a short description annexed to each plate” (1849). Coloured wood engravings by J. W. Whymper (Whimper).

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2020-04-21

Charmian Magee studied Glassblowing, Staining, Etching, Engraving, Sandblasting, Fusing, Slumping and Casting. She specialised in Lost Wax Casting. She now runs her own enterprise, Sirin Glass. https://t.co/60DqAAXhB1

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2020-04-21

RT : This famous satirical work The Passions, Humourously Delineated by Tim Bobbin”, the caricaturist John Collier (1708-1786) contains 26 hand coloured engravings.

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2020-04-20

It's interesting how often you stumble across ancient silent films, magazines, and 1800s engravings that feature women just causally beating the tar out of men..... Being socially conditioned not to defend yourself against violent women is not a new thing for men.

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2020-04-18

1/2 A re-drawing of “ANIMALADA” one of my engraving series, about a group of animals that play jazz. In order of appereance:
-Oso hormichelo 🎻
-Pianoceronte🎹
-Morsapeta🎺
-Caparabanjo🎸

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2020-04-18

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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2020-04-16

Claude Mellan, 1598-1688

The three Graces, holding a blank medallion and a drapery; frontispiece to de Vias’s ‘Charitum libri tres’ (Paris: Edmond Martin, 1660); before portrait in medallion, and before letter, 1659, engraving

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2020-04-13

Engraving of France's queen, Marie Antoinette, in 1793 published by Thomas Cheesman.

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2020-04-09

1903 Anatomy, Human Intestines Original Antique Engraving https://t.co/iyLPrKQaZx

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2020-04-07

"Heading towards home" colour engraving by Neil Bousfield https://t.co/NNSzAMuQkg

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2020-04-06

Engravings from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705) by naturalist and scientific illustrator, Maria Sibylla Merian.

Merian was born 1647. Further details about her remarkable life: https://t.co/dvqS0lc41j

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2020-04-02

This was one of several engravings of whales made after Goltzius's designs. A washed up whale was an interesting opportunity to study the creature, but could also be interpreted as an ill omen, as often emphasized in the accompanying text on such illustrated broadsides.

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2020-04-02

While selecting images for last week’s post on the wood engravings of Agnes Miller Parker, we came across this lovely engraving of a Barn Owl nestled in a bower above a churchyard for the 1938 Limited Editions Club printing of Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

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2020-03-31

Beautiful 19th century engraving of Douglas Castles, old and new - only the old tower survives.

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2020-03-29

For our final artist in the challenge on this we present work by the outstanding Scottish wood engraver Agnes Miller Parker. These engravings are from Thomas Gray‘s, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,' published by the Limited Editions Club.

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2020-03-28

OTD in 1895 the artist Agnes Parker Miller was born Irvine.

In the 1930s Agnes became well known for her wood-engravings for book illustrations.

Agnes moved to Glasgow in 1955 and lived on Arran for a period of time before dying in 1980.

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2020-03-25

This emotive work by French painter shows two soldiers tending to the dog of the regiment, wounded in battle. This picture was among the artist's most popular works. The critic Sainte-Beuve later remembered engravings of them 'in every shop window'.

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2020-03-25

Going through some works, as they have an amazing collection. https://t.co/5OBbi3yHB7 from Anglesey Abbey is a copy after a 1550 engraving by Heinrich Aldegrever. https://t.co/ZMyEdTYqTK

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2020-03-24