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The Ani (1780) by John James Audubon, from The Birds of America.
Source: Harvard University / Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c133e6a8-c55d-495f-869e-fd9d2c739b22
#fauna #nature #clouds #birds #bookillustration #etching #art #publicdomain
third etching print of a series depicting an arctic landscape
Etching on copper.
#Etching , #aquatint , #print , #printmaking , #PrintmakersOfMastodon, #whaling, #north
Plate 7.5x12 in.,
Paper 15x22in, Hahnemühle-Copperplate Warm white 300gsm Mould made in Germany, 100% high-alpha cellulose, neutral pH, chlorine-free, 300gsm,
Charbonnel Etching Ink Black.
This is an authentic hand-printed etching and limited varied edition of 7, signed and numbered.
available at: stonefolio.com
Sold unframed
A flock of geese scatters across the foreground, their wings etched in sharp relief against a storm-churned sky. The jagged peaks behind them dissolve into ink, as if the landscape itself is unraveling under the weight of the coming tempest.
What does the tension between the geese’s precise lines and the storm’s dissolving forms reveal about control and chaos?
#ClevelandMuseumofArt #Etching #19thCenturyArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.86
Doctor Syntax Sketching the Lake (1813) by Thomas Rowlandson, from The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque.
Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5d55bf61-e5f1-4d48-870f-9d1771143eec
#dogs #lakeside #picturesque #umbrellas #riding #travel #lakes #horses #boating #walking #aquatint #etching #art #publicdomain
Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v1. Tab 11 (1731) by Mark Catesby.
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/5c5827be-1743-4658-ae4d-04d14b76bf46
#fauna #perching #birds #flora #parrots #leaves #etching #art #publicdomain
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https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/10/21/christmas-2026/
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#forsale #vintage #cards #photography #greetingcards #christmas #achristmascarol #dickens #etching #art #artwork #literature #products #gifts #christmascards
Rain blurs the edges of stone walls and thatched roofs in this quiet etching. Legros’s fine cross-hatching suggests damp air settling over plowed fields and a distant abbey.
What detail in the foreground first catches the eye—smoke from a chimney or the curve of a cart track?
#ClevelandMuseumofArt #Etching #19thCenturyArt
https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.565
Boney at Bayonne Blowing a Spanish Bubble (1808).
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/69c5419e-2226-4420-9982-a2bbbd336e05
#satire #bubbles #soap #caricatures #uniforms #feathers #death #impermanence #vanitas #etching #art #publicdomain
Alchemical stage (ca. 18th century).
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ac050e5c-0599-4229-b038-7540fd201d83
#chemistry #swimming #handshakes #occultism #alchemy #celestial #etching #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain
Veduta della torre di San Livino a Zierikzee
Eugène Lücker, acquaforte e puntasecca, 1927
#arte #art #stampa #print #acquaforte #puntasecca #etching #drypoint #EugèneLücker
Illustration by Augustin Hirschvogel, from Geometria (1543).
Source: SLUB
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/60f35c66-62da-4a3a-be23-240f1b3ce029
#diagrams #perspective #measurements #shapes #polygons #threedimensional #geometry #etching #art #publicdomain
Tal para qual, circa 1799
etching, aquatint and drypoing - 198 x 147 mm - insc. in plate, UR, 'P.5.' - insc. in plate, LC, 'Tal para qual' - Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Peter Tomory, 2004
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZ
Christmas Is Coming! Get Your Christmas Cards Today! Give Yourself Plenty Of Time For Mailing
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https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/10/21/christmas-2026/
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#forsale #vintage #cards #photography #greetingcards #christmas #achristmascarol #dickens #etching #art #artwork #literature #products #gifts #christmascards
“Goya’s forms are born of nothing. They are bottomless, in the double sense that they only stand out against the most monotonous of nights, and that nothing can assign them their origin, their term and their nature.” - Michel Foucault | History of Madness
#MichelFoucault #FranciscoGoya #Painting #Etching #Madness #MentalIllness #Printmaking #Humanity #Goya #Book #HistoryOfMadness
Notre-Dame (1900) by Donald Shaw MacLaughlan.
Source: Art Institute Chicago
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/163dbe9c-db20-42a8-8fa3-71f008fd9d4c
#fire #notredame #gothic #cathedrals #architecture #paris #etching #art #publicdomain
Started playing around with etching at home - here are some notes of where I got to so far, in case anyone else has been wanting to try: https://www.drawingsaboutthings.com/blog/etching-lines-at-home
Burkeing the constitution of E—g——d!!!!! (1829) by George MacGregor, from The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times.
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/785c9008-4e23-45cd-a3fa-f4f297078458
#satire #caricatures #murder #dance #crime #movement #etching #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Giovanni Battista Bracelli, from Bizzarie di Varie Figure (1624).
Source: US National Gallery of Art
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/64524c0d-63b1-4261-adfb-8cac4d485cdb
They Have Flown (1797–9) by Francisco de Goya.
Source: Rijksmuseum
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/87e26813-3f88-409f-9f2c-4444ea452cc3
#satire #flying #societies #dreams #proverbs #spain #skirts #movement #aquatint #etching #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Giovanni Battista Bracelli, from Bizzarie di Varie Figure (1624).
Source: US National Gallery of Art
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ae3d434a-3503-4027-8279-7e1e5bed1b3e
#protocubism #abstract #shapes #spirals #etching #art #publicdomain
Lava emerging from Mount Vesuvius at night and running towards Resina, 11 May 1771 (1776–9) by Peter Fabris, from Campi Phlegraei.
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/0095faaa-1950-4250-b02b-eb5db4647ee0
#volcanoes #lava #pompeii #fire #nature #geology #naples #italy #etching #painting #drawing #art #publicdomain
Dream (1878-82) by Odilon Redon.
Source: Rijksmuseum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1e6a5ec0-3ba7-44f4-b705-4f7cb83fa98c
#abstract #supernatural #dreams #spirits #surrealism #etching #art #publicdomain
Illustration by Anne Allen, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres (ca. 1790s).
Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a9f2f6f8-b83e-428a-b83c-268a57224fe5
#rococo #gardens #orientalism #treehouses #china #design #plants #chinoiserie #etching #art #publicdomain
And When Death Himself Knocked at My Door (1769) by Thomas Patch.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/7abb82bd-e03f-4735-b0ce-56b61b8b0412
#mortality #death #skeletons #hourglasses #consumption #skulls #etching #art #publicdomain