#vintageengravings — Public Fediverse posts

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/Paley-Fonts/pages/decorated-stoke-golding/

An engraving of a font from the English Decorated church architecture period (roughly 1250 to 1350).

#vintageEngravings #baptism #fonts #carving #christian #fobo

22 intricate pen and ink #illustrations that invite you to look closer: https://zorz.it/YlhdI

#Hidrėlėy #GasparCosta #PortugueseIllustrator #HandDrawnArtwork #VintageEngravings #OldWorldDesign #DistinctiveStyle #decorative #PenAndInk

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/

Three of about 12 images from an 1865 article about spiritists, people using mediums to communicate with the dead. Hugely popular in 1860s.

The article purports to be a translate of an English factual account, hah!.

The dresser looks like a robot :) Pus i get to use #undeadBeetles as a tag!

#vintageEngravings #sensationalism #spirits #undeadBeetles #FOBO #GIMP #Gimp_3 #GIMP3 #spiritualism #spiritists #spirites #undedMusicians #satire #unded #ghosts

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/LewisCaroll-AliceThroughTheLookingGlass/pages/192-Three-Queens/

Slowly, i am working through the Alice images i scanned from a 1930s copy of the book that i think was my mother’s. Most of the impressions are very clean, but some plates are slightly damaged. This one is not too bad.

#fobo #vintageEngravings #vintageArt #alic #chess #dalziel #johnTenniel #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/pages/385-0001-entrance-to-the-tunnel/
https://fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/385-0002-first-tube-train-interior/
https://fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/385-0003-first-tube-train-passengers/

The first London underground railway (now affectionately called the tube); the 1870 newspaper article about it is in the description in the first Web link above.

It was narrow-gauge, 2'6", and would have been more cramped than the third picture suggests.

#vintageEngravings #oldNews #fobo #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #IllustratedLondonNews #1870 #railway #railways #tube #londonUnderground #history

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeArtistiqueV/pages/186-dragon-things-1-birth/

A political cartoon from the 1590s, one of three reproduced in an 1881 French art journal, opposing the protestant king Henri IV of France.

I removed the caption from this image with GIMP ; it was originally above the creatures inside the box, which i reduced accordingly.

#GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #fobo #vintageEngravings #politicalMeme #dragon #vintageArt #engraving #cartoon #GIMP