#1700s engraving

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

A Speciman of Printing Types (1798) William Caslon

[bad-moodboard]

Detail from Robertson's Phantasmagoria, Paris, 1797

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[empirearchives]

Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745 - 1807)

10 Colored Engravings after Antique Paragons, 18th/19th century

[penumbraplace]

Striking high quality prints of historical depictions of witches and demons at Penumbra Place.

[thetanigrum]

Engraving of Petrarch's Triumph of Death printed in Venice in 1756

Designed by Bartolomeo Crivellari, Engraved by Gaetano Zompini

[sunlilys]

bernard picart. eleazar sacrifices himself to bring down the elephant on which the king rides, 1711-1720.

[dynamoe]

H. Longbottom, Skeleton Merchant Trade-Cards: 1791/1792(?)/1797

[misterlemonzmen]

04-27-24 | Ancient of Days, 1794, Wlliam Blake. MisterLemonzMen.tumblr.com/archive

[thepapersnail]

James Basire the Elder, The Encampment of King Henry VIII at Marquison, July 1549, 19788, etching based on a painting by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm

[hedgehog-moss]

I was trying to get my donkey to eat the weeds around my vegetable garden (under strict supervision so he wouldn't pretend to mistake my rhubarb for a weed) and I got a visit from two people on bicycles, who said they were staying at a campsite and cycling from farm to farm trying to find information about their ancestors, who according to family documents, lived in this region in the 1600s. Like a genealogy-themed holiday—that's a fun idea. I told them the name of the family who owned my land in the late 1700s and said I didn't have info beyond that, but they should try the nearby monastery, whose nuns wrote a book about local families, using historical photographs & archives found in schools and town halls. They were very happy with the tip.

The monastery is a nice hiking destination (you've got to follow this eerie road that I love) and the nuns have a tiny shop where they sell homemade gingerbread and jams as well as painted eggs, one time I took a friend on that hike and we stopped to buy rose petal jam and an egg from them and a nun showed us that book they'd written and told us about their interest in local archives, so I think they'll be delighted to help these visitors. I'm myself delighted because it's kind of a milestone when you live alone in the woods, to be validated in your role as a forest creature by strangers on a journey asking you to provide them with the information they need to complete their quest. Looking back on it I only wish I'd phrased my answer as a riddle, and issued a tempting warning not to touch the mysterious glyph engraved on a rock by the side of the road (I need to go engrave one first)

[tiffanysabrinatattoo]

A Speciman of Printing Types (1798) William Caslon

[mouseandboo]

Postcrossing US-8460181 by Gail Anderson Via Flickr: Postcard with a picture of an engraving called Atlas Novus, done by German artist Johann Baptist Homann (1663 - 1724). Sent to a Postcrossing member in the Czech Republic.

[uwmspeccoll]

Marbled Monday

This sunny Marbled Monday, as we here in Wisconsin wait for the weather to catch up to the seasons and feel spring-like, I’ve selected The Seasons by Scottish poet and playwright James Thomson (1700-1748). There have been many editions of The Seasons since its first publication as a complete series of four poems in 1730—this one was published by The Nonesuch Press in 1927. It features five illustrations by an artist simply identified as Jacquier, who I have been unable to otherwise identify. The images are copperplate engravings made by C. Sigrist that were hand colored using watercolor through stencils at The Curwen Press. 

The marbling is a very curly French curl or snail pattern, featuring red, blue, orange, cream, and a greenish-grey. This pattern is created by first dropping colors in to the water bath and then taking a comb with regularly spaced teeth and swirling it in the water bath to make the snail pattern. 

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[talonabraxas]

Archangel Gabriel Talon Abraxas

“Gabriel, as a Regent of the Moon, is one of the planetary Genii. Yet, the Intimate Gabriel is something distinct. He is one of the autonomous and cognizant parts of our own Being. The Intimate Gabriel governs our own psychological Moon. The psychological Moon also has two faces, the visible and the hidden. All of our psychological defects, visible to simple sight are in the visible part of the Psychological Moon. However, the secret defects are found in the hidden part of our own Psychological Moon. It is obvious that defects, psychic aggregates and perversities that we do not even remotely suspect, exist in the hidden part of our own Psychological Moon.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

The Archangel Gabriel holding lilies and pointing to a dove representing the Holy Ghost. Engraving, 1700-1799

[ltwilliammowett]

Dutch Silver Spoon with tall-masted ship terminal, circa 1700-1710, City of Schoonhoven, oval bowl engraved on back H. Feringa Anno 1709