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The Death of Priam. 1820. engraving after the painting by Pietro Benvenuti. Italian
Yeah mondays are bad but hopefully yours won't be as bad at this woman, who apparently had to fight a devil with a literal penis of iron and then drag it home for dinner or something
(these are french engravings called "pranks of the devil") #histsex
Raymond Poisson as Crispin
Gérard Edelinck, Theodorus Netscher
Prints, Engraving
Flemish, 1682
gonna go to my first furcon, find a random fursuiter and say: "It's a nice fursuit, I'll give you that. But the engravings give you no tactical advantage whatsoever"
A Jewish cotton-cleaner
Separating seeds from cotton by the ancient process of bowing it. The labour-intensive process used before the advent of the cotton gin
A wood engraving by the Dalziel Bros. from an original sketch or watercolor by Harry Fenn, 1881 #art
Terry Allen's new album #JustLikeMobyDick is out Jan 24. Stream all 5 singles, including new tunes "Abandonitis" & "All That's Left Is Fare-Thee-Well," & preorder—check out the gorgeous tip-on gatefold 2xLP edition with vinyl whale engraving by Terry—here. https://t.co/86NdU6egzY
From ‘Hortus Eystettensis’, earliest-known large folio botanical book, hand-coloured engravings by German botanist Basilius Besler, who spent 16 years on the project ~ Melocactos (‘Mother-in-law’s Cushion’) / Vegetable Artichoke / Sunflower (1613)
https://t.co/3GpdPAGUIw
Birds in Flight, a wood-engraving by Eric Ravilious, 1938. In the collection of @royalacademy.
Maria Aegyptiaca
Adriaen Collaert, Maerten de Vos
Prints, Engraving
Netherlandish, 16th-17th century
I can finally share the cover art I made for a fanfiction!
It was a lot of fun to make all the engravings!
#DarkSouls #DarkSoulsRemastered #darksoulsart #coverart #digitalart #illustration
Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus would freeze. But - is this a painting? A drawing? An engraving? Brilliantly crossing media boundaries, it's Hendrick Goltzius in 1603. Today is his day.
Jael Slaying Sisera
Philips Galle
Prints, Engraving
Netherlandish, c. 1569
It's #MonsieurMas day 24. I hope you all enjoyed #MonsieurMas as much as I did. Let us finish with my all time favourite Monsieur image, this very awesome engraving. He looks very stunning here... and those curls.
Forgot to post an update, lol. Here you go~
(I'll probably change the outfit/pose multiple times until I can find a way to put in lot's of shiny engravings.)
Another engraving for #MonsieurMas day 12, this time we have Monsieur on horseback.
Engraving depicting Urania, the muse of astronomy who gestures towards the heavens as the astronomer leans against a celestial globe and follows her gaze; Cornelis Cort (printmaker), Antwerp, 1565 @FolgerLibrary https://t.co/IJ8juzQiud
During his time in an asylum, Vincent van Gogh copied the work of artists he admired, allowing him to concentrate more on interpretation.
For this image, he copied a wood engraving from Honoré Daumier’s "Physiology of Drinking: The Four Ages."
LEARN MORE—https://t.co/yri4hpvHeC
Engravings by 17th-century naturalist, Jan Jonston (1603-1675).
Historiae naturalis de piscibus et cetis libri V (1657).