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Happy Spring! 📷Colored engraving, title page of "A Wreath from the Woods of Carolina," Mary Ann Bryan Mason, 1859. Rare Books Collection. Government & Heritage Library. Mary Ann Bryan Mason, 1st woman in NC to have written & illustrated a children's book.

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2020-03-20

View on the Hudson River (Copy after Engraving by Weld and S. Springsguth in Weld, Travels Through the States of North America, 1807), Pavel Svinyin, https://t.co/idpOf7RAzZ (Palette: 🖌🎨

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2020-03-18

A commission I made a few days ago for
Varyn, the half-drow (I had a blast designing all the engravings on the leather armor!)

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2020-03-17

Holy Roman axe breaker infantry. One of the cheapest effective CQC weapons of these times were axes, but this armor seems to have been engineered with overhead swings in mind. I've seen an engraving around depicting this Carolingian, but am uncertain as to the origin or validity.

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2020-03-15

One of the joys of looking for one artist's work is accidentally finding another's. It was a delight to find some of Brian Hope-Taylor's wood engravings in this way.

These illustrations are from "The Lake & the Woods", 1951.

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2020-03-13

Paul Fürst, engraving, c. 1721, of a plague doctor of Marseilles (introduced as 'Dr Beaky of Rome'). His nose-case is filled with herbal material to keep off the plague.

Plague doctor outfit from Germany (17th century).

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2020-03-12

9 March 1845: Dickens has been to the Vatican, where the art is all rather familiar. He writes to Forster "The most famous of the oil paintings in the Vatican you know through the medium of the finest line-engravings in the world..."

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2020-03-09

Tonight's goodnight image is 'Stooking', a print from a wood engraving by the rather brilliant Clare Leighton, whose 'Four Hedges' has been re-issued by
and contains many of her wood engravings.

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2020-03-07

'Winter. Rooks and Rain'. Gertrude Hermes. Print from a wood engraving. 1950.

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2020-03-07

Candy witch :D
hat like that would be useful if sudden graving for candy

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2020-03-06

First time we are showing his engravings are equisite.
our Collectors show opens Saturday

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2020-03-05

🌸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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There's no bandwagon we can't jump on!😜😂 This engraving from the King George III topographical collection shows the 'twin peaks' of the Pitons off St Lucia. Known in the 18th C as the 'sugar loaves': https://t.co/xAN8hyY6zl

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2020-02-25

Wood engraving of male Blackbird by Thomas Bewick in his A History of British Birds, 1797 art

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2020-02-23

Turns out is a twitter thing and who am I to resist? This is Siamese Cat and Butterfly printed 1939 by trained and teacher Agnes Miller Parker, purchased by 1984. Colour wood engraving on card. (c) Estate of the Artist

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2020-02-22

On 21 February 1918, the last Carolina parakeet in captivity died at Cincinnati Zoo. The American Ornithologists' Union declared the birds in 1939. This engraving is by Mark Catesby, publ. 1731-43. More about Catesby & his legacy in our blog: https://t.co/COwiZ1d2Dy

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2020-02-22

Traces of a pilgrim. WW2 Halifax Bomber Propeller, GPS Data, Engraving, 24ct Gold Leaf. ✨

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2020-02-19

Just discovered this small book with gorgeous 1941 wood engravings by Irish artist Robert Gibbings. Reading about him, ‘David Attenborough remembers Gibbings as being one of the inspiring influences at the start of his career’ https://t.co/xuzeOPmOKE

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2020-02-15

Face of Christ engraving by Claude Mellan. Digitising all the amazing plates in the album. Watermark anyone?

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2020-02-14

Here's the first panel from the previous page. It's based on the Flammarion Engraving from L'atmosphère: Météorologie Populaire but with Kat and a big Zimmy face.

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2020-02-14