#xsane — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Darboy-ImitationOfChrist/pages/310-full-page-christian-border-detail-jesus-with-raised-hand/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

#xsane #genevaBible #numberOfTheBeast #religion #GIMP #fobo

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/001-sir-christopher-wren/

If you ask someone from the UK for the name of an architect there’s a good chance they’ll say Christopher Wren. Best known for St. Paul’s Cathedral, and rebuilding after the 1666 Fire of London, designing over 50 churches.

Taken from London, ed. Charles Knight; Tufts has it in TEI XML but no download link i could find. Hah! I have the physical book to scan!

#vintageEngraving #portrait #SirChristopherWren #ChristopherWren #architect #wig #fobo #GIMP #Gimp_3 #xsane

Old fuzzy pages, still tricky at 1600 dpi with #XSane and #OCRmyPDF on unix.
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Hooper Ranch Bookkeeper ............... cobhebgeneaneen Lisa Salkov, Mana Diaz (alt.)
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1. Mana should have been Maria.

2. And a bunch of dots got halluncinated into random letters. Same as it ever was, back to encoded Bacon wrote Shakespeare gibberish.

Otherwise, damned decent!

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt-Vol6/pages/225-creepy-town/

A creepy town from Dracula, illustrated by Gustav Doré, reproduced in an 1883 Art Journal article about Doré.

And what is that shadow? And is that a cat or a dog? Hands up everyone who wants to live in that town!

#vintageArt #GIMP #vintageEngraving #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #xsane #dracular #horror #melodrama #blackAndWhite #Dore #Doré #GustavDoré #Doree

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt-Vol6/pages/245-the-catapult/

The Catapult, 1868, Edward Poynter.

Complete with naked Roman soldiers.

The tip of the arrow is glowing red hot in the original painting.

The book implies Poynter failed to capture movement in this piece, by focusing too much on detail. Not sure i entirely agree, what do you think?

Delenda est Carthago.

#Carthage #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #catapult #siege #romanSoldier #fobo #GIMP #xsane #GIMP3 #GImp_3 #weapons #archery

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-GoodWords-1863/pages/779-reconciled/

Picture by Tom Graham (1840-1906) engraved by the Dalziels in Good Words, for a poem “Reconciled” by English poet Jean Ingelow.

The reconciliation is between—well, that would spoil the surprise, but you can go read the poem, it won’t fit here.

Thomas was known for his careful attention to light and detail and it shows.

#fobo #vintageArt #ScottishArtist #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #xsane #reconciliation #romance #love #vintageEngraving

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Scranton-OrnamentalDesign-VolI/pages/087-gothic-window-diagram/

An architectural diagram today - how to draw a gothic window. Or how to design one.

The left side shows the fully-drawn window and the right some of the construction. Not all, though, by any means, so you need some creativity here!

I bought the book at a shop near San Jose years ago - i started walking to it down El Camino Boulevard & gave up, took a taxi!

#vintageArt #fobo #vintageDiagram #diagram #gothicArchitecture #window #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #xsane

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/pages/697-Constantinople-Firemen/

I checked some early photos, all the way to 1910 or so, and indeed the firemen in Constantinople were generally barefoot. It seems not an occupation well suited to bare feet!

#fobo #illustratedLondonNews #1870 #sketch #newspaperIllustration #vintageIllustration #firemen #men #barefoot #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #XSane

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/001-initial-letter-j/

This decorative initial letter J (it’s _inhabited_ because it has a person in it, _historiated_ as it illustrates a scene, and was used as a drop cap, the first line of the title starting between the piper’s feet.

Probably the rodents running around on the bowl of the J are black rats, by their shape and tails; common in Europe and carried the plague.

#fobo #vintageArt #PiedPiper #dropCap #letterJ #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #xsane #bagpipes #music #illustration

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/001-initial-letter-j/

This decorative initial letter J (it’s _inhabited_ because it has a person in it, _historiated_ as it illustrates a scene, and was used as a drop cap, the first line of the title starting between the piper’s feet.

Probably the rodents running around on the bowl of the J are black rats, by their shape and tails; common in Europe and carried the plague.

#fobo #vintageArt #PiedPiper #dropCap #letterJ #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #xsane #bagpipes #music #illustration

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/001-initial-letter-j/

This decorative initial letter J (it’s _inhabited_ because it has a person in it, _historiated_ as it illustrates a scene, and was used as a drop cap, the first line of the title starting between the piper’s feet.

Probably the rodents running around on the bowl of the J are black rats, by their shape and tails; common in Europe and carried the plague.

#fobo #vintageArt #PiedPiper #dropCap #letterJ #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #xsane #bagpipes #music #illustration

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/001-initial-letter-j/

This decorative initial letter J (it’s _inhabited_ because it has a person in it, _historiated_ as it illustrates a scene, and was used as a drop cap, the first line of the title starting between the piper’s feet.

Probably the rodents running around on the bowl of the J are black rats, by their shape and tails; common in Europe and carried the plague.

#fobo #vintageArt #PiedPiper #dropCap #letterJ #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #xsane #bagpipes #music #illustration

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/001-initial-letter-j/

This decorative initial letter J (it’s _inhabited_ because it has a person in it, _historiated_ as it illustrates a scene, and was used as a drop cap, the first line of the title starting between the piper’s feet.

Probably the rodents running around on the bowl of the J are black rats, by their shape and tails; common in Europe and carried the plague.

#fobo #vintageArt #PiedPiper #dropCap #letterJ #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #xsane #bagpipes #music #illustration

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Edwards-ForestOfArden/pages/056-maid-of-the-forest/

This is from George Wharton Edwards, The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends, New York, 1914, and by then inks didn’t fade much. But it was the four-colour process, making the pictures harder to reproduce.

I try to have colour pictures on the front page of frooldbooks.org to liven it up a bit, and so visitors see they are not all monochrome!

Scanned with #xsane, then #GIMP3 and #GMIC descreen.

#fobo #vintageArt #forest #maid #ancientTree #fangorn

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...

Upgrading to #Xubuntu #Noble — 24.04 from 22.02 — and a review

The upgrade to Xubuntu 24.04 introduced both enhancements and challenges. Key issues included difficulties with re-enabling third-party #PPAs, slow initial load times for #Thunderbird, and complications with #Insync. #Snap applications are more prevalent, and they require careful management to avoid storage issues.

#vivaldi #snap #thunar #pdftk #xsane #parole #XFCE

https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/upgrading-to-xubuntu-noble-24-04-from-22-02-and-a-review/

Upgrading to #Xubuntu #Noble — 24.04 from 22.02 — and a review

The upgrade to Xubuntu 24.04 introduced both enhancements and challenges. Key issues included difficulties with re-enabling third-party #PPAs, slow initial load times for #Thunderbird, and complications with #Insync. #Snap applications are more prevalent, and they require careful management to avoid storage issues.

#vivaldi #snap #thunar #pdftk #xsane #parole #XFCE

https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/upgrading-to-xubuntu-noble-24-04-from-22-02-and-a-review/

Upgrading to #Xubuntu #Noble — 24.04 from 22.02 — and a review

The upgrade to Xubuntu 24.04 introduced both enhancements and challenges. Key issues included difficulties with re-enabling third-party #PPAs, slow initial load times for #Thunderbird, and complications with #Insync. #Snap applications are more prevalent, and they require careful management to avoid storage issues.

#vivaldi #snap #thunar #pdftk #xsane #parole #XFCE

https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/upgrading-to-xubuntu-noble-24-04-from-22-02-and-a-review/

Upgrading to #Xubuntu #Noble — 24.04 from 22.02 — and a review

The upgrade to Xubuntu 24.04 introduced both enhancements and challenges. Key issues included difficulties with re-enabling third-party #PPAs, slow initial load times for #Thunderbird, and complications with #Insync. #Snap applications are more prevalent, and they require careful management to avoid storage issues.

#vivaldi #snap #thunar #pdftk #xsane #parole #XFCE

https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/upgrading-to-xubuntu-noble-24-04-from-22-02-and-a-review/

Upgrading to #Xubuntu #Noble — 24.04 from 22.02 — and a review

The upgrade to Xubuntu 24.04 introduced both enhancements and challenges. Key issues included difficulties with re-enabling third-party #PPAs, slow response times for #Thunderbird, and complications with #Insync. Although snap applications are more prevalent, they require careful management to avoid storage issues.

#vivaldi #snap #thunar #pdftk #xsane #parole #XFCE

https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/upgrading-to-xubuntu-noble-24-04-from-22-02-and-a-review/

Upgrading to #Xubuntu #Noble — 24.04 from 22.02 — and a review

The upgrade to Xubuntu 24.04 introduced both enhancements and challenges. Key issues included difficulties with re-enabling third-party #PPAs, slow response times for #Thunderbird, and complications with #Insync. Although snap applications are more prevalent, they require careful management to avoid storage issues.

#vivaldi #snap #thunar #pdftk #xsane #parole #XFCE

https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/upgrading-to-xubuntu-noble-24-04-from-22-02-and-a-review/

Upgrading to #Xubuntu #Noble — 24.04 from 22.02 — and a review

The upgrade to Xubuntu 24.04 introduced both enhancements and challenges. Key issues included difficulties with re-enabling third-party #PPAs, slow response times for #Thunderbird, and complications with #Insync. Although snap applications are more prevalent, they require careful management to avoid storage issues.

#vivaldi #snap #thunar #pdftk #xsane #parole #XFCE

https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/upgrading-to-xubuntu-noble-24-04-from-22-02-and-a-review/

Upgrading to #Xubuntu #Noble — 24.04 from 22.02 — and a review

The upgrade to Xubuntu 24.04 introduced both enhancements and challenges. Key issues included difficulties with re-enabling third-party #PPAs, slow response times for #Thunderbird, and complications with #Insync. Although snap applications are more prevalent, they require careful management to avoid storage issues.

#vivaldi #snap #thunar #pdftk #xsane #parole #XFCE

https://linuxatty.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/upgrading-to-xubuntu-noble-24-04-from-22-02-and-a-review/

Had a scare today! Tried to scan and my scanner kept giving me black pages. Tried both #simplescan and #xsane. Nothing! I don't believe in hardware randomly quitting though so I unplugged it from my laptop and plugged it into the desktop (a USB port in the back). Found a version of Simple Scan in the AUR that literally says it's the good version in the description. Successfully scanned all the work I had. Whew!!!