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/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/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

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Marcelin-LaVieParisienne-1863/

Three of about 12 images from an 1865 article about spiritists, people using mediums to communicate with the dead. Hugely popular in 1860s.

The article purports to be a translate of an English factual account, hah!.

The dresser looks like a robot :) Pus i get to use #undeadBeetles as a tag!

#vintageEngravings #sensationalism #spirits #undeadBeetles #FOBO #GIMP #Gimp_3 #GIMP3 #spiritualism #spiritists #spirites #undedMusicians #satire #unded #ghosts

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/065-abendlied-ruined-castle-gateway/

A German poem, Abendlied, or, Evening song by Friedrich Rückert was in the blank area in this full-page illustration.

Signed i think HARLEY, prolly John J. Harley, about whom i know very little. The engraver made the lines for the sky a bit wonky, and it was hard to avoid interference fringes on downsizing.

#GIMP #Gimp_3 #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #castle #sheep #bucolicScenes #rural #rural_life #fobo

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/pages/021-summer-dance/

Danaë, mother of Perseus. One can almost imagine the sky-god Zeus watching her dance here.

It was a little startling to open this huge book (some 400mm/16 inches tall) and see this full-page painting reproduced: you can almost feel the brush strokes.

It’s always tempting to increase chorma/saturation & make a more modern-feeling picture!

#Schram #AloisHansSchram #vintageArt #greekMyth #toplessWoman #vintageArt #fobo #GIMP #Gimp_3 #Summer #painting #art

https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/01/24/gimp-3-0-8-released/

GIMP 3.0.8 released today.

A new version of the manual, including more translation work; fixes to bugs people have been kind enough to report.

Startup performance improved on many systems; colour profiles on Windows; SVG path import;
some minor UI improvements; security fixes; see link for more.

This might be the final 3.0 release before 3.2.

#GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #release #freeSoftware #libreGraphics #GNU #GnuImageEditor

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/17-298-family-barefoot-boy/

There’s what i think is meant to be an anti-English joke about how slowly they (we) drink beer associated with this, but Google Translate mangled it, i think. See the link - can anyone help with a better translation?

At any rate he seems to be a very ugly boy, but maybe it’s the hair giving him a skinhead look.

#Jugend #JugendStile #vintageArt #cartoon #fobo #family #GIMP #Gimp_3 #barefoot #artNouveau

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Jugend-1900/pages/16-269-justice-with-lion/

Here we see justice as represented in classical art - the blindfold of impartiality (hah) started appearing in the 15th or 16th century.

I have no idea about steaming hearts (?) in her hands, nor about the women on either side, nor what the right-hand person is standing upon. Nor the bird on her helmet actually. Clearly i am no art historian!

Any ideas?

#Justice #Justititia #nudity #woman #lion #fobo #vintageEngraving #artNouveau #JugendStile #GIMP #Gimp_3

GIMP will be at #Fosdem26 - Ondřej Míchal will be talking about our plans for the future of the GNU Image Manipulation Program, #GIMP

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BKTC3Z-wheres_gimp_going_after_3_2/

#FOSDEM #GIMP3 #Gimp_3