#engravings
Text
Wilhelm Meyer (1844-1944), ''The Ladies' Floral Cabinet'', Vol. 3, #33, Sept. 1874
Source
#Wilhelm Meyer#danish artists#The Ladies' Floral Cabinet#vintage illustration#engravings#moths#death's-head hawkmoth
735 notes
·
View notes
Text
𝔄𝔩𝔭𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔢 𝔡𝔢 𝔑𝔢𝔲𝔳𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔢
#Alphonse de Neuville#20000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA#engravings#engraving#art#artwork#sea#1871#19th century#xix century#Jules Vernes#illustrations
652 notes
·
View notes
Text
The Church-yard. From Bewick’s “British Birds.” 1804
151 notes
·
View notes
Text
STASYS KRASAUSKAS (Stasis Algirdo Krasauskas)
Engraving for a book of poetry, 1974
245 notes
·
View notes
Text
Mystic Monday: Take a Look Around
More from Lutheran mystic Jakob Böhme: Morgenröte im Aufgang, also called Aurora. This is Böhme's earliest (and perhaps his most influential) work, here in a edition produced more than 150 years after it was written. The title describes it as a work of philosophy, astrology, and theology.
The work circulated first as an unpublished manuscript, where it gained its author supporters and detractors. City officials responded by banning Böhme from further writing. (Spoiler: He didn't stop writing.)
This 1780 edition features a red and black title page, with a facing, engraved illustration depicting what appears to be a large sphere made of rows of eyes rising above or past another world.
We sigh to see the ink library stamp applied right smack in the middle of the illustration: Physical and mystical realms collide.
Böhme, Jakob. Morgenröte im Aufgang; Das ist, Die Wurtzel oder Mutter der Philosophiae, Astrologiae und Theologiae, aus rechtem Grunde... Neue Aufl. Berlin, C.U. Ringmacher, 1780.
#mystic monday#rare books#bookhistory#jakob bohme#illustrations#mysticism#christian mysticism#engravings#18th century
154 notes
·
View notes
Text
Coat of Arms with a Skull by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1503
76 notes
·
View notes
Text
Aurum superius et inferius aurae superioris et inferioris hermeticum (1675) by Christiani Adolphi Balduini.
This is a second, slightly enlarged edition of Aurum Aurae, Vi Magnetismi (1674) and contains a folding frontispiece engraved by C. Dekker (1675) and two copperplates by C. Dekker.
#rare books#old books#frontispiece#engravings#17th century books#science#alchemy#history of science#books#pretty books#title page tuesday
230 notes
·
View notes
Text
"Microscopic view of a great belly'd [bellied] gnat or female gnat." Micrographia : or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses. With observations and inquiries thereupon. 1665. Robert Hooke.
Science History Library
198 notes
·
View notes
Text
An engraving of the princesse de Lamballe. Source: Rijksmuseum.
38 notes
·
View notes
Text
It's Fine Press Friday!
Today we’re taking a closer look at our sister set of editions from Trianon Press: William Blake's Illustrations of the book of Job : the engravings and related material and Colour versions of William Blake's Book of Job designs, both of which were published in 1987 in London by the William Blake Trust.
The former edition includes two volumes of original black and white illustrations and facsimiles, process prints which document the evolution of the final product, and essays. It was edited by David Bindman (b. 1940) and includes plate-by-plate commentary and an introduction by Bo Lindberg (1937-2021), whose Ph.D. thesis on the work was published in 1973.
The latter includes three sets of color plates- The New Zealand set, The Collins set, and the Fitzwilliam plates- all of which were reproduced in facsimile from the original engravings, which were published in 1826. The New Zealand set are finished watercolor drawings, while the Collins and Fitzwilliams sets are hand-colored collotype reproductions (using the pochoir method) of the published engravings. All told the set includes 22 fascicules containing the title page and accompanying texts and 46 plates of illustrations measuring from 40-41 cm., all housed in marbled portfolios nested in leather-bound slipcases.
Can’t get enough of these books? Check out Alice’s Marbled Mondays post on their beautiful bindings. And check out UCSC Library’s digital exhibition Songs of Labor and Transcendence: The Trianon Press Archive for more on the history and legacy of the Trianon Press.
--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern
View more Fine Press Fridays posts
View more William Blake posts
View more Trianon Press posts
#Fine Press Fridays#William Blake#Trianon Press#pochoir#collotype#David Bindman#Bo Lindberg#Book of Job#William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job#engravings#Ana
36 notes
·
View notes
Text
Over the years, Kulchytska has created many artistic works in which she vividly reproduced the characteristic thoughts and dreams of people.
In her engravings, etchings, watercolors and drawings, we can see images of folk heroes, drawings of Ukrainian life and customs, unique images of folk costumes, elements of rural architecture and unforgettable landscapes of her native land.
40 notes
·
View notes
Text
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), 'Flame', ''Burning Bush'' by Louis Untermeyer, 1928
Source
241 notes
·
View notes
Text
Portrait of Jean Paul Marat, bust-length, turning his head briskly to the right, mouth open, his double-breasted jacket opened, revealing a dishevelled shirt; in oval; illustration to Marat's 'Plan de législation criminelle' (Paris: Rochette, 1790)
Lettered within image, alongside oval: 'Jean Paul Marat', 'L'ami du peuple', and below porrait, on table: 'Peuple! vois ton ami qui pour ta liberté / Au péril de ses jours te dit la vérité', and below image with production and publication detail: 'Blanchard fecit' and 'Se trouve a Paris chez Rochette rue St Jean de Beauvais No.38'.
According to Chevremont [who donated it to the museum] this lively portrait was made for Marat's 'Plan de législation criminelle' ('Plan for Criminal Legislation'), which was published in Neuchatel in 1780. Rochette published an edition of the work in 1790.
from The British Museum
#frev#jean-paul marat#marat#personal#engravings#I was looking for the Plan de législation and found this... woag#P A T R I O T I C S P I R I T
35 notes
·
View notes
Photo
Detail from Robertson's Phantasmagoria, Paris, 1797
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
Snowy Heron or White Egret detail. John James Audubon - 1835.
#birds#birds of america#john james audubon#audubon prints#paintings#vintage prints#snowy heron#white egret#egrets#herons#water fowl#engravings#color prints#aquatints#ornithology#zoology#science#life sciences#biology#nature
45 notes
·
View notes
Photo
Creepy Crawlies III
Our annual post of hair-raising critters is here! The scale of the bugs on the borders is especially troubling...
(We’ll also be posting another creepy entry closer to Halloween, so stay tuned!)
These images are from a donation of hundreds of religious themed engravings and illustrations. We have determined a subcollection of these is from the Kupfer-Bibel: in welcher die Physica sacra, oder beheiligte Naturwissenschafft derer in Heil. Augspurg & Ulm: Gedruckt bey Christian Ulrich Wagner, 1731-1735.
92 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
infinite-ducks
Sawyer/Spoon
laundryinthestreets
Golden State of Mind
dragonowlie
sore wa dou kana
regal-bones
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*
faustgraphs
FAUSTGRAPHS.