Mastodawn

22 intricate pen and ink #illustrations that invite you to look closer: https://zorz.it/YlhdI

#Hidrėlėy #GasparCosta #PortugueseIllustrator #HandDrawnArtwork #VintageEngravings #OldWorldDesign #DistinctiveStyle #decorative #PenAndInk

barefootliam Feb 28

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

barefootliam Dec 18

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/LewisCaroll-AliceThroughTheLookingGlass/pages/192-Three-Queens/

Slowly, i am working through the Alice images i scanned from a 1930s copy of the book that i think was my mother’s. Most of the impressions are very clean, but some plates are slightly damaged. This one is not too bad.

#fobo #vintageEngravings #vintageArt #alic #chess #dalziel #johnTenniel #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3

barefootliam Nov 21

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLondonNews-Vol56/pages/385-0001-entrance-to-the-tunnel/
https://fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/385-0002-first-tube-train-interior/
https://fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/385-0003-first-tube-train-passengers/

The first London underground railway (now affectionately called the tube); the 1870 newspaper article about it is in the description in the first Web link above.

It was narrow-gauge, 2'6", and would have been more cramped than the third picture suggests.

#vintageEngravings #oldNews #fobo #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #IllustratedLondonNews #1870 #railway #railways #tube #londonUnderground #history