#vintageart — Public Fediverse posts

A page from Henry Shaw’s 1845 book of alphabets, which attributed it to the Golden Bible of Augsburg, and early printed book (before 1501).

People like using the lettering for colouring.

The S from it is one of the most downloaded images on fromoldbooks.org.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Shaw-Alphabets/pages/065-alphabet-end-of-15th-century-full-page/

#alphabet #medieval #lettering #initials #initialLetter #letterS
#calligraphy #fobo #GIMP #vintageArt

October page from the Shell Nature Book, 1964, This illustration was painted by the British wildlife artist Maurice Wilson (with background landscapes painted by Rowland Hilder).
#Autumn #October #vintageart

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#travel #vintageart #travelposters #homedecorideas #wallart #buyintoart

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Bring the romance of travel into your home with vintage-inspired posters that turn blank walls into inviting windows onto another place and time. Their bold colors and timeless graphic style add character to living rooms, offices, and entryways—creating a warm focal point and a daily reminder of the places you love or dream of exploring.

#travel #vintageart #travelposters #homedecorideas #wallart #buyintoart

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/pages/065-theerosen/

Tea-roses.

Reproduction of a watercolour by Alois Hans Schram (1874–1919), with a poem by Rosa Rübsaamen

#watercolour #watercolor #roses #valentinesDay #romance #woman #lady #vintageArt #gimp #xsane #fobo

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Lloyd-Familienbuch-V/pages/176-frommig-lady-staircase/

Faith and Devotion (Frömmigkeil Pielà).

A dramatic effect of light and shade accomplished partly through deliberate platewash: the whole area of the picture, except for the highlights, has a light grey background, not just unprinted. This was generally made by sponging the plate with ink before each impression, and wiping the highlights clean. Labour intensive: this was an expensive book, if so.

#gimp #vintageArt #romanCatholic #nun #fobo #devotion #catholic

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/pages/000-dedication/

A suitably ornate Victorian h1 element :-)

This is the title on the dedication page of the edition i have of Lucile. Flowers, leaves, and weird spiral things.

Maybe it would make a good tee-shirt design.

#dedication #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #GIMP #fobo #xsane #lucile #VictorianArt

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/pages/298-grief/

It needs not to tell
The tears of Constànce, nor the grief of her lover:
The dreams they had laid out their lives in was over

Constànce gets a letter: she can’t marry her lover & must go to the convent. Dreams are shattered.

There were over 2,000 editions of the poem Lucile; this is from an American one that probably did not honour UK copyrights.

#Lucile #grief #disappointment #sad #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #GIMP #AmericanGoldenAge #woman #lady #blackAndWhite

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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Meredith-Lucile/pages/215-wheel-of-ixion/

In Greek mythology, King Ixion was spared punishment by Zeus, but took advantage by trying to seduce his wife Hera, and was punished by being tied to a burning rotating wheel in the underworld for eternity.

The picture here is scanned from the 1882 book Lucile, by Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, in which it’s referenced as a reminder, a caution against illicit love.

#vintageArt #GreekMyth #ancientGreece #nakedMan #torture #wheel #snakes #fobo #GIMP #xsane

On www.fromoldbooks.org i post images with info about the image & often some text from the source to give context, & i sell the high resolution images.

Sales have plummeted down since stable diffusion (AI) came along.

Maybe i should do a sale, $15 per image, with a Mastodon Special - $15 for any three images if you post them and mention #fobosale :-)

Or is that too cheap? Or too expensive? Or simply too exciting?

#fobo #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #sale #artForSale

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Lottka-Kindertraume/pages/014-weeping-child/

Not 100% certain what is happening here, but i think the idea is the child (boy?) is crying in the first image. He reappears in the second a few pages later, being comforted by the Faerie Queen. The patch on his shorts (and maybe his bare feet) suggest poverty.

#faerie #FaerieTales #German #EugenKlimsch #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo #boy #poverty #royalty #fairyTale #fairyQueen #unseelieCourt #sad #child

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Lottka-Kindertraume/pages/000-front-cover-detail-monster/

This unidentified monster with a corkscrew tail and rather long and sharp incisors was on the cover of the Children’s Dreams book, and seems designed to turn their dreams into nightmares.

It’s by the German artist Eugen Klimsch (1839 – 1896).

Scanned and processed with XSane + GIMP 3.4 on Linux.

#vintageArt #monster #monsters #colour #vintageEngraving #fobo #linux #GIMP #xsane

The publisher, Amelangs, got Eugene Klimsch to paint for this book, and then hired a presumably cheaper author to write the fairy tales - Kindertraüm: Bunte Märchen für Klein und Groß (Children’s Dreams: Colourful Fairy Tales for Young and Old). Or, for little and big!

The cover is fabulous, albeit perhaps faded. More coming from this German children’s book.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Lottka-Kindertraume/pages/000-front-cover/

#vintageArt #fairyStories #bookCover #BookCoverArt #fobo #GIMP

If you need or enjoy clipart, I invite you to point your browser to art.txw.ca

It is a site I’ve put up which catalogues and preserves 20th century clipart and stock photography from abandonware on macintoshgarden.org

#clipart #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #vintageart

A peaceful day at the seaside. 🌊🏖️

Cats are sunbathing.
Cats are building sandcastles.
Cats are sailing little boats.
Cats are drinking suspicious beverages in enormous hats.

And Hercules has discovered the local MICE-CREAM van. 🍦🐱

Flavours include Choc-Mouse, Strawberry Squeak, Minty Mouse and Cookie Crumble.

The sign proudly announces:

“100% MICE! NO NUTS!”

#Cats #Art #Illustration #VintageArt #Humour #WhimsicalArt #Seaside

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Ridpath-HistoryOfTheWorld-VolIII/pages/466-man-in-iron-mask/

A prisoner in France in the 1670s was transported between prisons with his face hidden by a cloth; rumours grew until Voltaire imagined him to wear an iron mask even in his cell.

His identity is uncertain. The artist here, Daniel Vierge, developed a photographic way to avoid tracing pictures to make engravings. He had a stroke & had to draw with his left hand.

#vintageArt #vintageEngravings #prisoner #ManInTheIronMask #GIMP #musician #prison #jail #gaol #fobo

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0932-Salisbury/

Salisbury, in Wiltshire, UK, showing the cathedral dominating the city skyline in 1840, taken from Charles Knight’s “Old England: A Pictorial Museum”, the book that inspired me to start scanning, back in the 1990s.

#Salisbury #Cathedral #SalisburyCathedral #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #fobo #OldEngland

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sachsen-Odyssey/pages/001-chapterhead/

Another engraving from Homer’s Odyssey. Seems like a good time for them :-)

This time i included the border, which is also used for the full-page illustrations.

Can you tell me more about what’s going on here? This is at the start of the poem. See Web page for my uninformed guesses :-)

#vintageEngraving #vintageArt #fobo #Homer #Odysseus #Odysee #Odyssey #ancientGreece #chapterHead #engraving

https://fromoldbooks.org/r/5j/pages/000-frontispiece-image-withdrawal-from-troy/

and cover and title page at https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sachsen-Odyssey/

Bought Homer’s Odyssey (cheaply) in Germany in 2019 on a GIMP meetup. Maybe it’s a good time to post some scans :-) The bookseller turned quite hostile when i mentioned the Web, said the Web was putting him out of business.

#homer #odysseus #Odyssey #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #fobo #greekMyth #bookCover #GIMP

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-13/pages/097-man-in-costume/

Another print from the huge book with the ornate cover.

“A celebration at the Imperial Court in Berlin. The Royal Porter in gala attire.”

or,

Ein Fest am Kiserlichen Hofe zu Berlin
Der Kgl. Portier in Galatracht.

He looks so _serious_!

Posting after a hiatus, software now works on the new server (ImageMagick has super complex commandline syntax and it changed!)

#GIMP #costume #HistoricCostume #German #fobo #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #imageMagick #GIMP3 #GIMP3_2

Vibrant Getaway Art

Oahu Tropical Beach Scene - Travel Poster

Art, Home Decor: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/oahu-tropical-beach-scene-travel-poster-joseph-s-giacalone.html

#Oahu #Hawaii #travelposter #tourism #travel #vintageart

Oahu Hawaii Retro Poster

Art, Home Decor: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/oahu-hawaii-retro-poster-joseph-s-giacalone.html

#hawaii #oahu #travelposter #vintageart #travel #tourism #wallart #homedecor #mastoart

Hey guys thought I'd share Vibrant Pomegranate on Blue Background

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#pomegranate #kitchendecor #restaurantdecor #wallart #homedecor #vintageart #coolart #colorfulart #fineartamerica

Hey guys thought I'd share a Giant Strawberry in a Field

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#strawberry #whimsicalart #wallart #homedecor #vintageart #coolart #colorfulart #mastoart

Hey guys thought I'd share Fresno Water Tower at Sunset - Vintage Poster

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#travelposter #vintageposter #travel #Fresno #California #wallart #homedecor #vintageart #coolart #colorfulart

Hey guys thought I'd share Capri Italy Vintage Travel Poster

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#travelposter #vintageposter #travel #capri #italy #wallart #homedecor #vintageart #coolart #colorfulart

Hey guys, here is an Oklahoma Travel Poster with Bison

Wall Art, Art Prints, Home Decor:
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#travelposter #vintageposter #travel #oklahoma #wallart #homedecor #vintageart #coolart #colorfulart
#fineartamerica

Kennt noch jemand diese ikonische Werbung aus den wilden 60ern des letzten Jahrtausends? War halt ne andere Zeit!
Does anyone else remember that iconic ad from the wild '60s of the last millenium? Those were just different times!
#Fotografie #photography #Werbung #advertisement #advertisement #vintagestyle #vintageart #vintage

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/pages/59-lieck-moselblumchen/

Moderne Kunst again.

I translated the caption Moselblümchen as At the Wine Festival to try and capture the spirit of it: seems it can be the wine or the outfit or the flowers maybe round her head. Or all three.

Josef Lieck was known for capturing “feminine beauty” which here seems to be the suggestion of what might follow the drink…

#moderneKunst #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #folkArt #german #blackAndWhite #engraving #fobo #GIMP #woman #wine #goblet

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/pages/53-mazeppa/

Another from engraving Moderne Kunst magazine (1898)

Mazeppa, the youth on the horse, was a Ukrainian cossack (1639 – 1709). After going a bit too far with the wife of a nobleman of the court, was strapped naked to a wild “Tartar” horse that was then made to gallop across the Steppes. He became very badly injured, but went on to become a hetman, or commander, and a leader in Ukraine.

#Mazeppa #Mazepa #vintageArt #nakedMan #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #ModerneKunst

CPA Aviation Espace Bapteme de l'air Parachute

https://www.cpaphil.com/en/vintage-postcard/cpa-aviation-espace-bapteme-de-lair-parachute

#Aviation #Space #FirstFlight #Parachute #Skydiving #AirBaptism #VintagePostcard #FlightHistory #Aerospace #Adventure #PilotLife #Jumping #FreeFall #HistoricalAviation #VintageArt #AviationHistory

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/pages/09-lions/

and

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/pages/09-lions-detail-face/

Engraving of 2 lions, and detail.

This is another engraving from the books with awesome covers, vol 1 this time. Orig. painting by Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842 – 1915).

#vintageArt #vintageEngraving #lion #lions #zoo #blackAndWhite #fobo #animalsInCaptivity #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane #scannedArt

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#PearArt #FruitArt #VintageArt #FarmhouseDecor #KitchenDecor #Cottagecore #ShabbyChic #KitchenWallArt #LisaSBaker #BuyIntoArt #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #creativetoots #pears #fruit #food #cannedfood #cannedfruit

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/pages/p041-letter-w-with-witch/

From the book with the fab cover but not an engraving - an early use of a dot screen for fine art work. The largest sizes will print well in black and white, but test carefully for possible moiré patterns.

An article about a book of German poetry which used this drop cap.

#vintageArt #FriedrichStahl #demon #occult #GIMP #GIMP3 #fobo #crescentMoon #blackAndWhite