#engraving — Public Fediverse posts

Common bronzewing (1811) by Pauline Knip, from Les Pigeons.

Source: New York Public Library

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b591e2d2-8c1f-4d99-9ac8-a54f7de69f59

#fraud #naturalhistory #birds #pigeons #napoleon #plagiarism #paris #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

Jiè Lù (1722) by Filippo Buonanni, from Gabinetto Armonico pieno d’istromenti sonori.

Source: Library of the University of Seville / Flickr: The Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d41b458d-c45f-4739-9846-767574f8beb4

#musicians #music #wunderkammer #engraving #art #publicdomain

Blemmyes and other “monsters” (1696), from Specula physico-mathematico-historica (A physico-mathematical-historical mirror).

Source: Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/09a721de-b54d-4191-a5d8-b8236f0a9b61

#hairy #exploration #ears #clubs #bestiary #humananimalhybrid #faces #deformity #monsters #tails #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

Le Superbe (1780) by François-Nicolas Martinet, from Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine.

Source: Harvard University / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/01abb915-b1ca-43ad-b73a-b3d1f3258543

#pets #fish #french #carp #naturalhistory #chinese #china #goldfish #engraving #art #publicdomain

Portraits Compared (1844), from Le Magasin pittoresque, August 1844.

Source: Joseph Sablé Centre / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/57cfcf1b-cb7d-43a2-b788-bf48b39e4c4c

#satire #caricatures #frogs #sequential #surrealism #amphibians #transformation #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

@medievalists The 1714 portrait is one of a series on the founders of Oxford & Cambridge colleges by John Faber the Elder, more of which can be seen at the #NationalPortraitGallery: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp08105/john-faber-sr?role=art

#TalentedMigrant #18thCentury #engraving #printmaking #mezzotint #intaglio #JohnFaber #ArtHistory #MarieDeStPol #BishopBateman #PembrokeCollege #TrinityHall #CambridgeUniversity

Bulwark breached
Gift none should accept
Troy perished

Engraving: Trojan Horse
Artist: Roderick Mead (June 25, 1900 - 1971)

#WOTDHaikuPrompt #bulwark
#575Prompt @aethelshane #Perish
#Haiku #Senyru #FreeHaiku @freehaiku
#Shahai #Engraving #RoderickMead #Mythology #GreekMythology

Cycle of Life…and a mouthful of a book title…

Hand-colored engraving of Borage and insects from “Caterpillars, Their Wondrous Transformation and Peculiar Nourishment of Flowers” - Maria Sibylla Merian, 1683
#BotanicalIllustration #borage #blue #flowers #caterpillars #moths #engraving #botanicalArt #wondrous

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-AltEngland/pages/158-eagle-tower-carnarvon/

The Eagle Tower at Caernarfon Castle, or Carnarvon to the colonialists who built it... in an 1888 engraving. Its name comes from the sculptures of stone eagles on the battlements at the top of the tower.

#castle #engraving #fobo #fromoldbooks #blackAndWhite #vintageArt #medieval #wales #carnarvon #caernarfon #tower #crennelations #battlements #harbour