https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/pages/plate-067-burn-the-witch/

One of the plates from the book whose cover i posted yesterday, this Albert von Keller painting shows a witch in a hypnotic trance, supposedly to negate pain. Plate is approx. 9x13 inches.

The artist was criticised for showing a teenager and in the wrong historical costume, but his goal was merely painting the trance (and, originally, a bare-breasted woman).

#vintageArt #vintageEngraving #GIMP #Gimp_3 #vintageArt #occult #fobo #hypnotism #witch

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/pages/000-front-cover-moderne-kunst-band-3/

I fell in love with these huge (A3-size) books in Prague. I’ve seen the cover design described as pretentious (like me) but the full-page engravings are really fabulous.

The book only just fits on the scanner i use, with a few mm (eighth of an inch) to spare.

#bookCover #vintageArt #fobo #GIMP #victorianArt

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/pages/plate-057-farm-girl-in-frame/

I’m not sure whether the frame here was part of Dobson’s painting, but i love it. Dobson’s paintings were known for the “innocence of the young”, a popular theme in England in the 2nd half of the 18th century.

There’s also a version with just the frame.

The scaled-down images in Mastdon look much better in Firefox than Chrome here.

#vintageArt #vintageEngraving #innocence #art #painting #engraving #fobo #WilliamCharlesThomasDobson #border #frame

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Morris-PicturesqueViews-Vol2/pages/030-penrhyn-castle-wales/

A chromolithograph, done with maybe a dozen different impressions each with its own solid colour to build up an image.

Penrhyn Castle was rebuilt c. 1830 using profits from slave labour, so it’s controversial today. Its also an unusual Neo-Norman castle.

#castles #chromolytography #towers #neoNorman #gothic #vintageArt #statelyHome #fobo #park

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/pictures-of-old-books/pages/img_7378-stack-of-books/

Some of the more photogenic books whose images i’ve scanned for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ - a photo i took back in 2007.

Charles Knight’s two-volume “Old England’ on the bottom is what started it all.

Canon EF-S 17-18mm IS lens, f/5.6 at 1/13th sec, camera EOS 400D (Digital Rebel XTi).

#fobo #oldBooks #books #photograph #colour #color #canon

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-detail-owl/

This line-drawing of an owl looks startlingly modern, with eyes wide as if in surprise, body twisted, wings spread for takeoff. It was in the bottom-left corner of a full-page border from Darboy’s 1855 edition of the Imitation of Christ.

#owl #drawing #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo #bird #feathers #wings #winged #GIMP #GIMP3

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Darboy-ImitationOfChrist/pages/310-full-page-christian-border-detail-angel-with-incense/

This is a detail from the full-page border engraving i posted recently.

The censer, or thurible , burns incense, with the smoke representing prayers going up to heaven. Which is where the angels are when they are not in Ethiopia. So maybe this is a fallen angel?

Angels gained wings in the 4th century or so; Biblical angels don’t have them.

#angel #drawing #lineDrawing #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #wings #mythologicalCreatures #fobo #GIMP

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Scranton-OrnamentalDesign-VolI/pages/123-coucy-castle-with-labels/

The Coucy Castle drawing with the letters showing the parts; i posted the version without letters some time ago.

Is it better to edit posts & add images, or to make more posts? Well, it’s a fun drawing anyway 🙂 despite wonly perspective!

#vintageEngraving #fobo #castle #Coucy #medievalArchitecture #diagram #drawing

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