#print history

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

city view of nuremburg, the dance of death, and a scene from the apocalypse: selections from the nuremburg chronicle, 1493.

[therightvillainouschapbooks]

I designed some printmaking & book history themed pendants :)

A Printer's Fist/ manicule, Aldus leaf and a pilcrow

etsy

[lanterne]

Ornaments from Lucie, ou les Parents imprudents by Collot d’Herbois (c. 1771) x

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

We have officially reached a viewership level that has never been obtained by another museum before! All of us at the Sacramento History Museum are in disbelief.

We would have never thought that our institution, a small nonprofit museum in Sacramento, California, could reach this many views, but we are incredibly thankful for all of those who take the time to watch our videos and for your support.

In this video, Howard letterpress printed a headline announcing “Sacramento History Museum Reaches One Billion Video Views On YouTube” while using our Washington hand press, which was manufactured in 1852!

[nicholasandriani]

From Scrolls to Presses: Unraveling the Artistic Tapestry of Eastern and Western Printing History

It’s officially summer here at the University of Missouri. Grades are in. Evaluations complete. My Mozilla Hubs space is fleshed out, and I’ve fulfilled Unity’s programmer curriculum! As for the University of Arizona, my satellite campus, we in the Asian Studies department have another week to go. Translations are movin along beautifully and I’m excited to continue sharing my work on the Hyakunin…

[deersweets]

this is the best thing i’ve painted in my entire life

(also ive got prints of it heehoo)

[lionofchaeronea]

Snow at the Ukimido, Katada, Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1934

[petitelappin]

I can't stop reading the 1793 third edition of "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" (originally published 1785). I have been irritating all my friends and coworkers with fun new terms like "That's the barber!" and "He looks like God's revenge against murder."

Anyway, Ash talked me into drawing some of the phrases and I ended up with these little mid-1780s Londoners.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Aoyama Seizan, Horses, 1930s

[leatherandmossprints]

‘The Rose Necklace’ (detail) by Pavel Tchelitchew, c. 1931.

[shakespearenews]

In 1476, William Caxton opened his print shop in Westminster. This shop would be the start of a long tradition of printing books in England. Whilst he did often operate alone – although he is thought to have sold books produced by others at his shop – the first few years of his establishment in England were helped by Anthony Woodville, the brother-in-law of Edward IV.[1] Anthony was not only Caxton’s best patron, but also translated texts which Caxton printed for him. As the head of the Household of Edward, Prince of Wales, Anthony also used texts created by Caxton to educate a future king. In many ways, this mutually beneficial role has been somewhat forgotten with time. Many have instead seen Anthony Woodville as someone who achieved little, mainly due to his execution in 1483. However, this is far from the truth.

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Samuel Kilbourne (American, 1836–1881)

"The California Salmon" (ca. 1879)

"Leaping Brook Trout" (1874)

"Yellow Perch" (1878)

[theartofmadeline]

new zine about asexual history! this one's been rattling around my head for awhile

[burningvelvet]

Some of the pages and covers of Percy Shelley’s notebooks (1811-1822) — accessed through the Digital Bodleian Library

[furiosophie]

i know someone must have done this already but--

based on this post by @chaotic-kass