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Desecration!

Rušení posvŕtných hájů lípových, or, Disruption of sacred linden groves.

It seems a bunch of yobbos have invaded a sacred ritual held in a clearing in a forest.

The treatment of light and shade is exquisite in this 1884 engraving, published in a book “Bohemia: oint work of Czech writers and artists”, by František Adolf Šubert, lead, and František Adolf Borovský, co-editor.

#pagan #ritualMagic #druids #fromOldBooks #engraving #vintageArt

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/056-spirit-battle/

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Subert-Cechy-Vol2/pages/131-initial-letter-v-with-mermaid/

A decorated letter V for a dropped capital, formally an inhabited initial, from an 1884 book about Vltava in Bohemia (Czechia). The V has a mermaid in it, & fishes & an eel swim about her. She’s naked (do mermaids wear clothes?).

Decorated initials are used in print at the start of a chapter, or at the start of a section without a title so you can find it easily.

#fantasyArt #fantasy #mermaid #initial #letterV #typography #initialLetter #fromOldBooks #woman

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Lloyd-Familienbuch-V/pages/105-musician-on-the-wall/

A man in top hat and tails plays the flute outside a bedroom window, standing on the top of a wall. Vintage engraving ‘The Serenade” from Lloyd’s 1857 family book (Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise).

The book describes him as a dreamy youth.

From a painting by G. Neumann & engraved by Heinrich Petersen (1806-1870)

#fromOldBooks #vintageEngraving #engraving #romantic #romance #courting #courtship #love #moonlight #valentinesDay

A schoolroom in Tunisia (1883)

The boys are learning to read Arabic and to recite the Koran in this 1883 engraving from a drawing by Edmund Berninger (1843 - 1910).

Scanned from El Mundo Ilustrado - https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/pages/281-schoolroom/ that i bought when i had an unexpected night in Lisbon on W3C business in 2017.

#education #children #teaching #crossLegged #dark #stone #boys #pupils #school #arabic #tunisia #fromOldBooks #engraving

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-TheBritishIsles/pages/v2s2-000-frontispiece-llanthony-priory/

A photograph of the ruins of Llanthony Abbey published in 1905 using a proprietary photogravure process from the Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Co.

The abbey ws built around 1200CE by Augustinian monks, and closed at the Dissolution by King Henry VIII; it was abandoned, and eventually used as a farm.

#romanticRuin #fromOldBooks #vintagePhotograph #sepia #stoneBuilding #llanthonyPriory #HondduValley #Wales #Cymru #Welsh

A full-page border that surrounded a page in “The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times” by W R Tymms (London, UK, 1860). A fabulous book i bought at Geoffry Aspin’s bookshop in Hay-on-Wye in the 1980s.

I made versions in different colours; you can also use the Colour tab on the Web page to change colour. It’s one of the most popular images i’ve posted.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Tymms-Illuminating/pages/p27-border-antique-green/

#fromOldBooks #victorianArt #ornateBorder #border #fullPageBorder #decorative

Llanthony Priory, Vally of the Honddu, Wales, UK, from a 1905 photograph.

The priory was built around 1200 by Augustinian monks, but was closed at the Dissolution in the 16th century, and fell into a ruin; it was partly reused as a farm.

Process: Rembrandt Photogravure.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-TheBritishIsles/pages/v2s2-000-frontispiece-llanthony-priory/

#ruins #abbey #priory #llanthony #llanthonyPriory #Welsh #wales #vintagePhotograph #hills #cows #romanticRuin #fromOldBooks

Llanthony Priory, Vally of the Honddu, Wales, UK, from a 1905 photograph.

The priory was built around 1200 by Augustinian monks, but was closed at the Dissolution in the 16th century, and fell into a ruin; it was partly reused as a farm.

Process: Rembrandt Photogravure.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-TheBritishIsles/pages/v2s2-000-frontispiece-llanthony-priory/

#ruins #abbey #priory #llanthony #llanthonyPriory #Welsh #wales #vintagePhotograph #hills #cows #romanticRuin #fromOldBooks

Llanthony Priory, Vally of the Honddu, Wales, UK, from a 1905 photograph.

The priory was built around 1200 by Augustinian monks, but was closed at the Dissolution in the 16th century, and fell into a ruin; it was partly reused as a farm.

Process: Rembrandt Photogravure.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-TheBritishIsles/pages/v2s2-000-frontispiece-llanthony-priory/

#ruins #abbey #priory #llanthony #llanthonyPriory #Welsh #wales #vintagePhotograph #hills #cows #romanticRuin #fromOldBooks

Llanthony Priory, Vally of the Honddu, Wales, UK, from a 1905 photograph.

The priory was built around 1200 by Augustinian monks, but was closed at the Dissolution in the 16th century, and fell into a ruin; it was partly reused as a farm.

Process: Rembrandt Photogravure.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-TheBritishIsles/pages/v2s2-000-frontispiece-llanthony-priory/

#ruins #abbey #priory #llanthony #llanthonyPriory #Welsh #wales #vintagePhotograph #hills #cows #romanticRuin #fromOldBooks

Llanthony Priory, Vally of the Honddu, Wales, UK, from a 1905 photograph.

The priory was built around 1200 by Augustinian monks, but was closed at the Dissolution in the 16th century, and fell into a ruin; it was partly reused as a farm.

Process: Rembrandt Photogravure.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-TheBritishIsles/pages/v2s2-000-frontispiece-llanthony-priory/

#ruins #abbey #priory #llanthony #llanthonyPriory #Welsh #wales #vintagePhotograph #hills #cows #romanticRuin #fromOldBooks

Another #arthurRackham picture; i have a few books that he illustrated, and his illustrations are now out of copyright.

Alas, they are all (if in colour) printed with the four-colour process, which actively resists scanning. I’ve wondered about training an “AI”, although others have reported poor results.

Anyway, here is Adrtift, from The Snow Queen.

#watercolour #painting #fear #child #littleGirl #scared #fromoldbooks #watercolor #england #english

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArthurRackham-LifeAndWork/pages/103-migrant-girl-adrift/

A painting by Arthur Rackham (1867--1937) for a 1906 edition of The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArthurRackham-LifeAndWork/pages/033-dark-fantasy-watercolour/

I also made the border available as a separate image:
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ArthurRackham-LifeAndWork/pages/033-dark-fantasy-watercolour-border/

#arthurRackham #watercolour #waterColourArt #watercolor #fantasyArt #fantasy #painting #fromOldBooks #barefoot #ogre

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Creighton-EnglishShires/pages/254-Leicester-Hospital-Warwick/

This alms-house (low-income public housing they might say today?) was originally a chapel in Warwick, built in 1126 CE. It was used by trade guilds and then became an alms-house in 1571. It is still an alms-house today, almost 500 years later.

It's also open to the public.

#warwick #medieval #medievalArchitecture #architcture #tudor #elizabethan #England #building #blackAndWhite #fromOldBooks

Is that a quidditch snitch in her hand?

This engraving was made to sell the borders in it, & appeared in a printer’s catalogue of 1917.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Strong-BookOfDesigns/pages/36a-banner-with-woman-and-sphere/

More at https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Strong-BookOfDesigns/

#artDeco #artNouveau #jugendStile #fromOldBooks #vintageEngraving #quidditch #harryPotter #GIMP #xsane

PS: mention of quidditch is NOT an endorsement of the views of its inventor...

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Ridpath-GreatRacesOfMankind-Vol3/pages/200-land-of-the-semites/

Land of the Semites. Desert and Caravan. From John Ridpath’s 1893 “Great Races of Mankind”. Described in the text as showing Palestine.

#palestine #vintagePhotograph #fromOldBooks #desert

Art nouveau border (#JugendStile) by Walter Crane,

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/WalterCrane-PanPipes/pages/12-may-full-page-blank/

Taken from an edition of Theo Marzials’ “Pan Pipes” from 1883, bought at Temple Books, now in Welland Ontario.

#vintage #art #border #artNouveau #FromOldBooks #fobo

Karl Heffner (1849 – 1925) was a Bavarian musician who became interested in art after working for an English art dealer, Tom Wallis, and ended up exhibiting and even being commissioned by Edward Prince Regent (the future king Edward VII).

This picture may have been painted on a wooden frame in this shape, i’m not sure; the reproduction i scanned was an engraving.

#fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #vintageEngraving #oilPainting #art #vintageArt #landscape #river #riverScene #picture

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Paracelsus-ArchidoxesOfMagic/pages/158-aries-a/

Some magic circles taken from a 1656 English translation of a manuscript of “Celestial Medicine” said to be by Paracelsus (1493–1541). These circles, when engraved onto coins made in a particular way at the right time, are said to invoke the mysterious power of the Zodiac. Wow.

I won’t toot here for each image :)

#fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #vintageEngraving #illustration #engraving #occult #religion #ancientMedicine #magicCircles #zodiac #astrology #Aries

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Morris-PicturesqueViews-Vol2/pages/000-frontispiece-alnwick-castle/

Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, UK

Known today especially for its gardens, Alnwick Castle was first buyilt in 1096, possibly on the site of an earlier Roman fort. It was rebuilt in the 1300s and again in the 1700s. The same family has lived there, Percy, since around 1300.

#statelyHome #fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #vintageEngraving #illustration #engraving #bigHouse #countryHouse #castle #medieval #alnwick #earlyColourPrinting

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Morris-PicturesqueViews-Vol2/pages/033-cholmondeley-castle/

Cholmondeley Castle.

It’s pronounced “Chumley” and the same family has been living there since 1066 or so (they must be getting old by now).

The castle was built in the early 19th century, replacing an older wooden hall. Sorry, i don’t know if it has a dungeon :) The chapel (i think on the right) is much older.

#statelyHome #fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #vintageEngraving #illustration #engraving #bigHouse #countryHouse #castle #medieval #19thCentury #cholmondeley

A 1733 anatomical drawing/engraving from Cheselden’s “Osteograpia” - a reassembled primate skeleton.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cheselden-Osteographia/pages/012-skeletal-person-on-tree-stump/

#ohDearHeDied #fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #woodEngraving #monkey #skeleton #bones #primate #waving #byeBye #sitting #seated #treeStump #zombieXylophone #death #illustration #engraving

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Casabo-LaCivilizacion-3/pages/261-knights/

Crusaders attacking Jerusalem, from a book of history of [Western] Civilization (Barcelona, 1881).

I'm not sure about climbing a wooden siege-ladder wearing metal ring-mail & carrying a flag-pole, nor about pointing a sword menacingly at a man with a bow, but it's the fantasy of raising the flag over enemy territory.

#castle #menWithSwords #ringMail #knights #soldiers #medieval #ohDearHeDied #fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #woodEngraving #jerusalem #crusades #flag #War

Death in a Castle or Roman palace

Engraved after a painting by Fusté, although i’m not sure who that was. Published in 1881.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Casabo-LaCivilizacion-3/pages/013-murder-in-the-castle-throne-room/

#castle #columns #pillars #menWithSwords #body #deadMan #ohDearHeDied #fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #woodEngraving #art #romanArchitecture #interior #vintageArt

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-07/pages/079-my-dearest-child/

A “genre painting” by Arnaldo Ferragut (1862-1925), engraved by Richard Bong in 1893.

#fobo #motherhood #woman #child #boy #love #affection #comfort #hugging #fromOldBooks #clipart #woodEngraving #art #genrePainting #vintageArt

A Summer Evening - a painting by Hermann Schlittgen (1859 – 1830) that was exhibited at the Berlin Great Exhibition of 1893

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-07/pages/170-chinese-lantern/

#fobo #fromOldBooks #woodEngraving #art #chineseLantern #vintage #painting

A Summer Evening - a painting by Hermann Schlittgen (1859 – 1830) that was exhibited at the Berlin Great Exhibition of 1893

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-07/pages/170-chinese-lantern/

#fobo #fromOldBooks #woodEngraving #art #chineseLantern #vintage #painting

A Summer Evening - a painting by Hermann Schlittgen (1859 – 1830) that was exhibited at the Berlin Great Exhibition of 1893

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-07/pages/170-chinese-lantern/

#fobo #fromOldBooks #woodEngraving #art #chineseLantern #vintage #painting

A Summer Evening - a painting by Hermann Schlittgen (1859 – 1830) that was exhibited at the Berlin Great Exhibition of 1893

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-07/pages/170-chinese-lantern/

#fobo #fromOldBooks #woodEngraving #art #chineseLantern #vintage #painting

A Summer Evening - a painting by Hermann Schlittgen (1859 – 1830) that was exhibited at the Berlin Great Exhibition of 1893

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-07/pages/170-chinese-lantern/

#fobo #fromOldBooks #woodEngraving #art #chineseLantern #vintage #painting

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-04/pages/024-piano-cherub/

A putto, or cherub, plays a baby grand piano in this illustration from an 1898 German art magazine.

#fobo #fromoldbooks #piano #music #vintageArt #cherub #putto #putti #xmas #christmas #valentinesDay #cute #playingPiano