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/
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
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/JuliusWolff-PiedPiperOfHamelin/pages/220-castle-door/
A scene from the Pied Piper by Julius Wolff.
I love the dark alleyway on our right, with the façades of houses dimly visible in the shadows. Great work for an engraving!
Art by Paul Thumann (1834 – 1908).
#piedPiper #medieval #medievalArchitecture #vintageArt #creepyStatue #dontBlink #GIMP #fobo #xsane #GIMP3
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/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/108-seaside/
A setting for a poem (see link) about keeping a sense of childish joy and wonder as we grow older.
Everyone on this beach is fully clothed, including shoes and socks, which suggests to me a somewhat restrained sense of joy and wonder.
No artist or engraver credited. And is that a seagull eating a squirrel at upper left?
#vintageArt #victorianCostime #vintageEngraving #fobo #GIMP #xsane #poetry #seaSide #beach #seaShore #children #border
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Berthet-Paris/pages/333-la-fondation-de-paris/
A somewhat fanciful illustration of the founding of Paris; probably it is depicting the Roman conquest of the encampment of the Celtic Parisii tribe.
I’m not 100% happy with the way the Web resolutions came out, but the print resolution will reproduce well.
#quintessentiallyFrench #Paris #history #celts #druids #fobo #vintageEngraving #vintageArt #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Geneva/pages/Revelation-13-number-of-the-beast/
At a book fair in Toronto many years ago i bought an incomplete and falling-apart copy of a 1581 Geneva bible, also called the Breeches bible.
In the footnotes for Revelation 13 is an “explanation” that the Number of the Beast is 666 and refers to the Pope.
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
Old fuzzy pages, still tricky at 1600 dpi with #XSane and #OCRmyPDF on unix.
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Hooper Ranch Bookkeeper ............... cobhebgeneaneen Lisa Salkov, Mana Diaz (alt.)
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1. Mana should have been Maria.
2. And a bunch of dots got halluncinated into random letters. Same as it ever was, back to encoded Bacon wrote Shakespeare gibberish.
Otherwise, damned decent!
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Jim Spath
eshepsimple-scan. As for work though, when I gotta scan tens or hundreds of documents and name them each individually, nothing beats a nice little script with scanimage, convert, and sqlite. Read in the info from db, select the one I need, ask for further input, output to file and mark the item in the db.