Musette http://collections.mfa.org/objects/552171/musette

#Art #Lithograph #France #FinDeSiècle #RaphaelKirchner #Cigarette #Musette

By Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), Mother And Child, 1969, lithograph, Image: 42.2 × 27 cm (16 5/8 × 10 11/16 in). As an original print, it appears in many collections, both public and private. #arthistory #printmaking #lithography #lithograph #Art

From Virginia M. Mecklenburg Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1987): ‘Raphael Soyer was a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker who believed that "if art is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate." From an early age Soyer and his brothers Moses and Isaac were encouraged to draw by their father, a teacher of Hebrew literature and history. Forced to leave Russia in 1912, they immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn. In the mid 1920s, having studied at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League, Soyer painted scenes of life on New York's east side. His portrayals of derelicts, working people, and the unemployed around Union Square during the Depression reveal more of a poignant vision of the human condition than the art of social protest popular with many of his contemporaries. Throughout his life Soyer painted people—his friends, himself, studio models—with an unerring eye for intimacy and mood.’

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Thomson-TheLandAndTheBook/pages/431-nazareth/

Today Nazareth is the largest city in the Northern district if what is now called Israel. Bible scholars also consider Nazareth to have been the likeliest birthplace of Jesus.

Maybe another #duotone or maybe pure brown #lithograph (there’s some black in there, though)

#GIMP made quick work of this one, printed on smoother calendered paper in 1894.

#biblicalScenes #fobo #vintagePhotograph #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #vintagePhotography #palestine

Jurjen Ravenhorst – Blauw licht

#abstract #art #lithograph

"Secession XIV, Beethoven," Alfred Roller, 1902.

Roller (1864-1935) was an Austrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer, who was (very obviously) a founding member of the Vienna Secession, which gave us the Art Nouveau style.

Roller was very active early in his career as a graphic designer, as we have here in this lithograph, advertising the 14th Vienna Secession exhibition that celebrated Beethoven. This is classic Vienna Secession...the stylized figure, the embrace of two dimensions, the collage-like treatment of different parts of the image, as simple areas of pattern. It's genuinely lovely and makes me sentimental for advertising like this.

Roller would later go on to design sets for operas conducted by his friend, the composer Gustav Mahler. He ended up becoming the chief designer of the Vienna State Opera.

From the Leopold Museum, Vienna.

#Art #AlfredRoller #Lithograph #ArtNouveau #ViennaSecession #Advertising

The beautiful Toolache Wallaby ( macropus greyi) , as illustrated by Henry Constantine Richter in John Gould's "Mammals of Australia", published between 1845 and 1863.

This wallaby was to be found in South Australia and Victoria. The last sighting in the wild took place in 1924, and the last Toolache Wallaby in captivity died in 1939.

#Australia #AustralianWildlife #AustralianFauna #Wallabies #ToolacheWallaby #ExtinctAnimals #JohnGould #MammalsOfAustralia #HCRichter #HenryConstantineRichter #Lithograph #ZoologicalIllustration #ScientificIllustration