#fobo — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fobo, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/pages/plate-067-burn-the-witch/
One of the plates from the book whose cover i posted yesterday, this Albert von Keller painting shows a witch in a hypnotic trance, supposedly to negate pain. Plate is approx. 9x13 inches.
The artist was criticised for showing a teenager and in the wrong historical costume, but his goal was merely painting the trance (and, originally, a bare-breasted woman).
#vintageArt #vintageEngraving #GIMP #Gimp_3 #vintageArt #occult #fobo #hypnotism #witch
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/pages/000-front-cover-moderne-kunst-band-3/
I fell in love with these huge (A3-size) books in Prague. I’ve seen the cover design described as pretentious (like me) but the full-page engravings are really fabulous.
The book only just fits on the scanner i use, with a few mm (eighth of an inch) to spare.
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/pages/plate-057-farm-girl-in-frame/
I’m not sure whether the frame here was part of Dobson’s painting, but i love it. Dobson’s paintings were known for the “innocence of the young”, a popular theme in England in the 2nd half of the 18th century.
There’s also a version with just the frame.
The scaled-down images in Mastdon look much better in Firefox than Chrome here.
#vintageArt #vintageEngraving #innocence #art #painting #engraving #fobo #WilliamCharlesThomasDobson #border #frame
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Morris-PicturesqueViews-Vol2/pages/030-penrhyn-castle-wales/
A chromolithograph, done with maybe a dozen different impressions each with its own solid colour to build up an image.
Penrhyn Castle was rebuilt c. 1830 using profits from slave labour, so it’s controversial today. Its also an unusual Neo-Norman castle.
#castles #chromolytography #towers #neoNorman #gothic #vintageArt #statelyHome #fobo #park
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img_7378-stack-of-books/
Some of the more photogenic books whose images i’ve scanned for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ - a photo i took back in 2007.
Charles Knight’s two-volume “Old England’ on the bottom is what started it all.
Canon EF-S 17-18mm IS lens, f/5.6 at 1/13th sec, camera EOS 400D (Digital Rebel XTi).
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This could be either Jesus or John, but probably Jesus.
This figure was floating in the left-hand side of a full-page border used in Darboy’s 1855 edition of the Imitation of Christ; there are full-page borders on every page, but they repeat.
#jesus #christFigure #drawing #jesus_Christ #WhiteJesus #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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This could be either Jesus or John, but probably Jesus.
This figure was floating in the left-hand side of a full-page border used in Darboy’s 1855 edition of the Imitation of Christ; there are full-page borders on every page, but they repeat.
#jesus #christFigure #drawing #jesus_Christ #WhiteJesus #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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This could be either Jesus or John, but probably Jesus.
This figure was floating in the left-hand side of a full-page border used in Darboy’s 1855 edition of the Imitation of Christ; there are full-page borders on every page, but they repeat.
#jesus #christFigure #drawing #jesus_Christ #WhiteJesus #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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This could be either Jesus or John, but probably Jesus.
This figure was floating in the left-hand side of a full-page border used in Darboy’s 1855 edition of the Imitation of Christ; there are full-page borders on every page, but they repeat.
#jesus #christFigure #drawing #jesus_Christ #WhiteJesus #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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This could be either Jesus or John, but probably Jesus.
This figure was floating in the left-hand side of a full-page border used in Darboy’s 1855 edition of the Imitation of Christ; there are full-page borders on every page, but they repeat.
#jesus #christFigure #drawing #jesus_Christ #WhiteJesus #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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This line-drawing of an owl looks startlingly modern, with eyes wide as if in surprise, body twisted, wings spread for takeoff. It was in the bottom-left corner of a full-page border from Darboy’s 1855 edition of the Imitation of Christ.
#owl #drawing #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo #bird #feathers #wings #winged #GIMP #GIMP3
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This is a detail from the full-page border engraving i posted recently.
The censer, or thurible , burns incense, with the smoke representing prayers going up to heaven. Which is where the angels are when they are not in Ethiopia. So maybe this is a fallen angel?
Angels gained wings in the 4th century or so; Biblical angels don’t have them.
#angel #drawing #lineDrawing #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #wings #mythologicalCreatures #fobo #GIMP
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Scranton-OrnamentalDesign-VolI/pages/123-coucy-castle-with-labels/
The Coucy Castle drawing with the letters showing the parts; i posted the version without letters some time ago.
Is it better to edit posts & add images, or to make more posts? Well, it’s a fun drawing anyway 🙂 despite wonly perspective!
#vintageEngraving #fobo #castle #Coucy #medievalArchitecture #diagram #drawing
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Darboy-ImitationOfChrist/pages/310-full-page-christian-border/
A full-page border, or page surround, featuring Christian religious figures, birds, and a crocodile or dragon (which is intended? i am uncertain). It’s from an 1855 edition of Imitation of Christ.
#vintageEngraving #christianity #border #A4 #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane #Darboy #imitationOfChrist #oldBooks #fobo
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Darboy-ImitationOfChrist/pages/310-full-page-christian-border/
A full-page border, or page surround, featuring Christian religious figures, birds, and a crocodile or dragon (which is intended? i am uncertain). It’s from an 1855 edition of Imitation of Christ.
#vintageEngraving #christianity #border #A4 #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane #Darboy #imitationOfChrist #oldBooks #fobo
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Darboy-ImitationOfChrist/pages/310-full-page-christian-border/
A full-page border, or page surround, featuring Christian religious figures, birds, and a crocodile or dragon (which is intended? i am uncertain). It’s from an 1855 edition of Imitation of Christ.
#vintageEngraving #christianity #border #A4 #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane #Darboy #imitationOfChrist #oldBooks #fobo
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Darboy-ImitationOfChrist/pages/310-full-page-christian-border/
A full-page border, or page surround, featuring Christian religious figures, birds, and a crocodile or dragon (which is intended? i am uncertain). It’s from an 1855 edition of Imitation of Christ.
#vintageEngraving #christianity #border #A4 #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane #Darboy #imitationOfChrist #oldBooks #fobo
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Darboy-ImitationOfChrist/pages/310-full-page-christian-border/
A full-page border, or page surround, featuring Christian religious figures, birds, and a crocodile or dragon (which is intended? i am uncertain). It’s from an 1855 edition of Imitation of Christ.
#vintageEngraving #christianity #border #A4 #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane #Darboy #imitationOfChrist #oldBooks #fobo
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/2113-James-I-s-Cradle/
This 1590s cradle is still kept at his mother’s house, Stirling Castle (in case he returns as a zombie prince?)
This is the same King James who ordered the Authorized Version of the Bible, known popularly as the King James Bible, to be made.
#vintageEngraving #cradle #furniture #rocker #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/220-castle-door/
A scene from the Pied Piper by Julius Wolff.
I love the dark alleyway on our right, with the façades of houses dimly visible in the shadows. Great work for an engraving!
Art by Paul Thumann (1834 – 1908).
#piedPiper #medieval #medievalArchitecture #vintageArt #creepyStatue #dontBlink #GIMP #fobo #xsane #GIMP3
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/220-castle-door/
A scene from the Pied Piper by Julius Wolff.
I love the dark alleyway on our right, with the façades of houses dimly visible in the shadows. Great work for an engraving!
Art by Paul Thumann (1834 – 1908).
#piedPiper #medieval #medievalArchitecture #vintageArt #creepyStatue #dontBlink #GIMP #fobo #xsane #GIMP3
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/220-castle-door/
A scene from the Pied Piper by Julius Wolff.
I love the dark alleyway on our right, with the façades of houses dimly visible in the shadows. Great work for an engraving!
Art by Paul Thumann (1834 – 1908).
#piedPiper #medieval #medievalArchitecture #vintageArt #creepyStatue #dontBlink #GIMP #fobo #xsane #GIMP3
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/220-castle-door/
A scene from the Pied Piper by Julius Wolff.
I love the dark alleyway on our right, with the façades of houses dimly visible in the shadows. Great work for an engraving!
Art by Paul Thumann (1834 – 1908).
#piedPiper #medieval #medievalArchitecture #vintageArt #creepyStatue #dontBlink #GIMP #fobo #xsane #GIMP3
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/220-castle-door/
A scene from the Pied Piper by Julius Wolff.
I love the dark alleyway on our right, with the façades of houses dimly visible in the shadows. Great work for an engraving!
Art by Paul Thumann (1834 – 1908).
#piedPiper #medieval #medievalArchitecture #vintageArt #creepyStatue #dontBlink #GIMP #fobo #xsane #GIMP3
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/000-front-cover/
A large book, maybe 14 or 16 inches high, with a bright cover. The book is a retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, or a novel based on it, i’m not sure.
Usually i don’t post the covers here, but this one is quite fun.
#GIMP #GIMP3 #Book_covers #piedPiper #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/000-front-cover/
A large book, maybe 14 or 16 inches high, with a bright cover. The book is a retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, or a novel based on it, i’m not sure.
Usually i don’t post the covers here, but this one is quite fun.
#GIMP #GIMP3 #Book_covers #piedPiper #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/000-front-cover/
A large book, maybe 14 or 16 inches high, with a bright cover. The book is a retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, or a novel based on it, i’m not sure.
Usually i don’t post the covers here, but this one is quite fun.
#GIMP #GIMP3 #Book_covers #piedPiper #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/000-front-cover/
A large book, maybe 14 or 16 inches high, with a bright cover. The book is a retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, or a novel based on it, i’m not sure.
Usually i don’t post the covers here, but this one is quite fun.
#GIMP #GIMP3 #Book_covers #piedPiper #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/000-front-cover/
A large book, maybe 14 or 16 inches high, with a bright cover. The book is a retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, or a novel based on it, i’m not sure.
Usually i don’t post the covers here, but this one is quite fun.
#GIMP #GIMP3 #Book_covers #piedPiper #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo
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US, UK, and EU #survey out this week shows 29% of #workers are #sabotaging their #company's A.I. strategy, with that number for Gen Z jumping to 44%! Among those who admitted to the #sabotage, 30% cited fear of losing their #jobs (FOBO - Fear Of Becoming Obsolete).
Last year's MIT #study found 95% of generative A.I. pilots fail b/c of #learning gaps betw the tools & the organizations.
#FOBO #GenAI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenZ #saboteurs #sabotage #pilot #work #fear
https://fortune.com/2026/04/08/gen-z-workers-sabotage-ai-rollout-backlash/ -
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/188-explore-the-dungeon/
From a version of The Pied Piper of Hamelyn by Wolff, Julius: “Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: Eine Aventiure” (1890).
Here Lorenz goes down into the castle cellar to confront the ghosts - but they turn out to be rats.
Drawn by Paul Thumann & engraved by Richard Brend’amour.
#vintageEngraving #vintageArt #castle #medieval #piedPiper #rats #fobo #GIMp #Gimp_3 #xsane #didIMentionTheRats #illustrationsForChildren
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/188-explore-the-dungeon/
From a version of The Pied Piper of Hamelyn by Wolff, Julius: “Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: Eine Aventiure” (1890).
Here Lorenz goes down into the castle cellar to confront the ghosts - but they turn out to be rats.
Drawn by Paul Thumann & engraved by Richard Brend’amour.
#vintageEngraving #vintageArt #castle #medieval #piedPiper #rats #fobo #GIMp #Gimp_3 #xsane #didIMentionTheRats #illustrationsForChildren
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/188-explore-the-dungeon/
From a version of The Pied Piper of Hamelyn by Wolff, Julius: “Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: Eine Aventiure” (1890).
Here Lorenz goes down into the castle cellar to confront the ghosts - but they turn out to be rats.
Drawn by Paul Thumann & engraved by Richard Brend’amour.
#vintageEngraving #vintageArt #castle #medieval #piedPiper #rats #fobo #GIMp #Gimp_3 #xsane #didIMentionTheRats #illustrationsForChildren
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/188-explore-the-dungeon/
From a version of The Pied Piper of Hamelyn by Wolff, Julius: “Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: Eine Aventiure” (1890).
Here Lorenz goes down into the castle cellar to confront the ghosts - but they turn out to be rats.
Drawn by Paul Thumann & engraved by Richard Brend’amour.
#vintageEngraving #vintageArt #castle #medieval #piedPiper #rats #fobo #GIMp #Gimp_3 #xsane #didIMentionTheRats #illustrationsForChildren
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/188-explore-the-dungeon/
From a version of The Pied Piper of Hamelyn by Wolff, Julius: “Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: Eine Aventiure” (1890).
Here Lorenz goes down into the castle cellar to confront the ghosts - but they turn out to be rats.
Drawn by Paul Thumann & engraved by Richard Brend’amour.
#vintageEngraving #vintageArt #castle #medieval #piedPiper #rats #fobo #GIMp #Gimp_3 #xsane #didIMentionTheRats #illustrationsForChildren
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/108-seaside/
A setting for a poem (see link) about keeping a sense of childish joy and wonder as we grow older.
Everyone on this beach is fully clothed, including shoes and socks, which suggests to me a somewhat restrained sense of joy and wonder.
No artist or engraver credited. And is that a seagull eating a squirrel at upper left?
#vintageArt #victorianCostime #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #xsane #poetry #seaSide #beach #seaShore #children #border
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/108-seaside/
A setting for a poem (see link) about keeping a sense of childish joy and wonder as we grow older.
Everyone on this beach is fully clothed, including shoes and socks, which suggests to me a somewhat restrained sense of joy and wonder.
No artist or engraver credited. And is that a seagull eating a squirrel at upper left?
#vintageArt #victorianCostime #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #xsane #poetry #seaSide #beach #seaShore #children #border
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/108-seaside/
A setting for a poem (see link) about keeping a sense of childish joy and wonder as we grow older.
Everyone on this beach is fully clothed, including shoes and socks, which suggests to me a somewhat restrained sense of joy and wonder.
No artist or engraver credited. And is that a seagull eating a squirrel at upper left?
#vintageArt #victorianCostime #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #xsane #poetry #seaSide #beach #seaShore #children #border
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/108-seaside/
A setting for a poem (see link) about keeping a sense of childish joy and wonder as we grow older.
Everyone on this beach is fully clothed, including shoes and socks, which suggests to me a somewhat restrained sense of joy and wonder.
No artist or engraver credited. And is that a seagull eating a squirrel at upper left?
#vintageArt #victorianCostime #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #xsane #poetry #seaSide #beach #seaShore #children #border
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/108-seaside/
A setting for a poem (see link) about keeping a sense of childish joy and wonder as we grow older.
Everyone on this beach is fully clothed, including shoes and socks, which suggests to me a somewhat restrained sense of joy and wonder.
No artist or engraver credited. And is that a seagull eating a squirrel at upper left?
#vintageArt #victorianCostime #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #xsane #poetry #seaSide #beach #seaShore #children #border
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/pages/437-london-driving/
There is nothing new under the sun: this 1896 illustration by Alfred Chantry Corbould goes with an article about London drivers and how bad they are.
#londonHistory #London #horseAndCarriage #vintageIllustration #vintageArt #AlfredChantryCorbould #blackAndWhite #vintageEngraving #driving #LondonBusDrivers #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Berthet-Paris/pages/333-la-fondation-de-paris/
A somewhat fanciful illustration of the founding of Paris; probably it is depicting the Roman conquest of the encampment of the Celtic Parisii tribe.
I’m not 100% happy with the way the Web resolutions came out, but the print resolution will reproduce well.
#quintessentiallyFrench #Paris #history #celts #druids #fobo #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Berthet-Paris/pages/333-la-fondation-de-paris/
A somewhat fanciful illustration of the founding of Paris; probably it is depicting the Roman conquest of the encampment of the Celtic Parisii tribe.
I’m not 100% happy with the way the Web resolutions came out, but the print resolution will reproduce well.
#quintessentiallyFrench #Paris #history #celts #druids #fobo #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Berthet-Paris/pages/333-la-fondation-de-paris/
A somewhat fanciful illustration of the founding of Paris; probably it is depicting the Roman conquest of the encampment of the Celtic Parisii tribe.
I’m not 100% happy with the way the Web resolutions came out, but the print resolution will reproduce well.
#quintessentiallyFrench #Paris #history #celts #druids #fobo #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Berthet-Paris/pages/333-la-fondation-de-paris/
A somewhat fanciful illustration of the founding of Paris; probably it is depicting the Roman conquest of the encampment of the Celtic Parisii tribe.
I’m not 100% happy with the way the Web resolutions came out, but the print resolution will reproduce well.
#quintessentiallyFrench #Paris #history #celts #druids #fobo #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Berthet-Paris/pages/333-la-fondation-de-paris/
A somewhat fanciful illustration of the founding of Paris; probably it is depicting the Roman conquest of the encampment of the Celtic Parisii tribe.
I’m not 100% happy with the way the Web resolutions came out, but the print resolution will reproduce well.
#quintessentiallyFrench #Paris #history #celts #druids #fobo #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Geneva/pages/Revelation-13-number-of-the-beast/
At a book fair in Toronto many years ago i bought an incomplete and falling-apart copy of a 1581 Geneva bible, also called the Breeches bible.
In the footnotes for Revelation 13 is an “explanation” that the Number of the Beast is 666 and refers to the Pope.
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Geneva/pages/Revelation-13-number-of-the-beast/
At a book fair in Toronto many years ago i bought an incomplete and falling-apart copy of a 1581 Geneva bible, also called the Breeches bible.
In the footnotes for Revelation 13 is an “explanation” that the Number of the Beast is 666 and refers to the Pope.
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Geneva/pages/Revelation-13-number-of-the-beast/
At a book fair in Toronto many years ago i bought an incomplete and falling-apart copy of a 1581 Geneva bible, also called the Breeches bible.
In the footnotes for Revelation 13 is an “explanation” that the Number of the Beast is 666 and refers to the Pope.
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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Geneva/pages/Revelation-13-number-of-the-beast/
At a book fair in Toronto many years ago i bought an incomplete and falling-apart copy of a 1581 Geneva bible, also called the Breeches bible.
In the footnotes for Revelation 13 is an “explanation” that the Number of the Beast is 666 and refers to the Pope.