Posts tagged engraving
Electric Human Suit
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
Your cosmopolitan sympathies
18th century rendition of the elusive Dodo
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The lay of St. Cuthbert
John Leech (?), from The Ingoldsby legends, by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard H. Barham), New York, 1848.
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Such images are never about the animal. They are always excuses to depict buildings in the background. A terrible lubriciousness for architecture, zoologically disavowed.
Except where those animals will not stay still. Defy their depicter. Walk right up to that unmentionable and sniff it. The guilt, but oh, the relief.
Of course it would be pigs.
‘Edison’s Anti-Gravitation Underclothing’, 1879
Don’t think a thong would lift the weight of some enormous wearers.
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A plan of Worcester Cathedral made in 1836 (engraved by B.Winkles after a drawing by Benjamin Baud)
Emblematical Print on the South Sea Scheme — William Hogarth, 1721
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fuckyeah-arthistory: London: A Pilgrimage: Inside the Docks - Gustave Doré, 1871-72. Wood engraving.
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Illustration for Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, from the 1871 edition with art by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou.
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Fulton Street, looking towards Brooklyn Ferry.
From New York illustrated, published by D. Appleton & company, New York, 1881. No author mentioned.
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