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Basilius Besler 🖌

Garden at Eichstätt: Hibiscus Sabdariffa | 1613 🌺🍃



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2023-01-13

The sun's shining, so enjoy Olivia Krimpas's evocative Gardens. You can see more of Olivia's colourful @ the gallery, open daily 10:30-5:30, & online.

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2022-03-08

देवी दुर्गा महिषासुर मर्दिनी
Devi Durga fight Mahishasur
Handcoloured engravings by Frederic Shoberl from his work 'The World in Miniature: Hindoostan'. London: R. Ackerman, 1820'

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2021-10-16

Dace or ayah, Indian nurse, in petticoat and jacket of cotton, and muslin shawl, with European child. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Asiatic Costumes," Ackermann, London, 1828

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2021-05-18

It has been lovely to revisit this work (2013!?!), and we look forward to sharing more of this project of familiar faces (or should that be beaks) soon.





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2021-05-04

Kusakabe Kimbei (日下部金兵衛, 1841–1934)

Country Children

Meiji era

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2020-03-29

Uchida Kuichi (内田 九一, 1844–1875)

View of Nagasaki

1872

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2020-03-09

Look at this. An actual Bill Watterson Calvin & Hobbes original art page up for auction. This NEVER happens. He handcoloured it too. Beautiful line and brushwork! We can expect it to sell for a great deal of $$$ https://t.co/xNcGdM1lMb

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2020-02-15

An unusual handcoloured woodcut depicting the Guru Gobind Singh ji sprinkling five of his followers with amrit, Punjab, c.1870. The scene depicted took place in 1699 at Anandpur Sahib ji, a site which was founded by the 9th Guru Teg Bahadur ji. 1/2

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2019-10-15

Gorgeous of a Roseate Spoonbill from George Shaw’s ‘The Naturalist’s Miscellany’, with by FP. Nodder

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2018-11-13

Strange Dutch beasties from the 18th century. You saw them here first in glorious handcoloured detail. https://t.co/ZlSIq9gxx1

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2017-01-18

handcoloured for my browser at atf no,18 independent house

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2015-05-08