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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/pages/plate-072-dirty-laundry/
“Auf Urlaub” - On vacation
The women are shown (as i read it) as happily flirting with the man who is presumably the one on holiday while they work at the laundry.
The portrayal of lighting and distance here is superb - it’s a wood-engraving!
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
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?
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
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Benson-StockDesigns/pages/057-knight-hailing-castle/
This image was a “Display Page” from a catalogue put out by Benson Printing Co of Nashville TN, USA in 1922.
The idea here is that you print text over the grey solid area to the left of the arch.
The designer had probably never seen a medieval castle and didn’t understand how the doors worked :-) If the knight needed to blow his horn the door was probably closed…
#knight #template #medival #fantasy #vintageEngraving #fobo #xsane #GIMP #medieval
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/YouthsInstructer/pages/000-frontispiece-hindoo-temple-gorucknath/
This is the Gorakhnath Math Hindu Temple in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Although it’s a bit bashful and is hiding behind the trees. I love the seated drummer at front left.
The 1830 magazine issue this is from is not kind in its description of religion in India, and i have not reproduced the article beyond the first paragraph.
Some decorated initials from Shaw’s 1845 book of alphabets.
The white dots on a black background (criblé) came in early in printing, introduced by Philippe Pigouchet if we are to believe Philip Meggs’s huge book on the history of graphic design :-)
Initials like these are great at the start of a section, helping readers find their way round a text.
These ones are by Geoffroy Tory, i think (uncredited in the book).
#dropCaps #decoratedInitial #vintageEngraving #initialLetter #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/Ridpath-HistoryOfTheWorld-VolIII/pages/373-chapterhead-angel/
This (i think) is Truth or Virtue breaking free of her chains, with the law, royalty, and the nobility to help her (or hinder her, maybe!).
She lacks the scales and blindfold of Justice, and has the manacles and broken chains of Virtue or Truth. And she has bare feet, but I’m not sure that is significant. I do love the way the artist (Hugo Vogel) has put her big toe out of the frame, though.
#vintageEngraving #chapterHead #fobo #GIMP #toplessWoman #angel
A messy illustration of chaos - the original painting by Hugo Vogel was likely helped by colour of flames. Chaos - people objecting to being put out of work by new technology.
#vintageEngraving #luddite #destructionOfPresses #earlyPrinting #fobo #GIMP
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/SewardTravels/pages/443-interior-of-imperial-palace-delhi/
The Red Fort of Delhi, Diwan-I-Khas, the seat of the Emperor. Until it wasn’t.
William H Seward retired from public life and went on a world tour. The text is as bigoted as one might expect from 1873, but i transcribed some of the more acceptable parts.
#india #architecture #interiorr #pillars #arches #vintageEngraving #fobo #travel #GIMP #redFort
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Mathers-Goetia/pages/127-Pentagram-of-Solomon/
Not really anything to do with Solomon of course. Its a talisman of protection for when you summon demons, something we all do at times, right?
True magic is not summoning demons. It’s when people show kindness to one another.
#magicCircle #magic_circle #Aleister_crowley #occult #vintageEngraving #fobo #DontDoThisAtHome
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/OldEngland/pages/0257-harrowing-and-sowing/
1840s reproduction from the Bayeux Tapestry. Text is actually about Anglo-Saxon farming _before_ the Conquest, and uses lfriċ’s desc. of an enslaved ploughman and his boy, says he works hard, but omits the essential but unfashionable (1840s) fact he was a slave.
Slavery was common before 1066, mostly died out by the end of the 12th C; the church was the main holdout.
#vintageEngraving #fobo #angloSaxon #slavery #england #history #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
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/pages/524-cherub-border-1
This is one of two banners from a double-page spread of sketches in the middle of a satirical (i expect) article about Un Anglais En Voyage.
#vintageEngraving #fobo #cupid #valentinesDay #cherubs #LaVieParisienne #GIMP #GIMP3
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Burton-WonderfulProdigies/pages/p092a-barefoot-for-three-days/
A 1680s book i apparently bought for $60 years ago... about horrid people like atheists, popes, apostates, tyrants, sailors and more. Here, a pope makes a king stand barefoot in the snow for 3 days, along with his wife and son. In the end the pope’s mistress interceded.
#woodcut #vintageEngraving #pope #king #barefoot #blackAndWhite #pope #king #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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