Brave Search

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
Image of the day" Birds
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