https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1896/pages/437-london-driving/
There is nothing new under the sun: this 1896 illustration by Alfred Chantry Corbould goes with an article about London drivers and how bad they are.
#londonHistory #London #horseAndCarriage #vintageIllustration #vintageArt #AlfredChantryCorbould #blackAndWhite #vintageEngraving #driving #LondonBusDrivers #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3
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/CirclingTheYear-1870/pages/136v-christmas-initial-letter-c/
This decorative initial was used as a drop cap (dropped capital) for the word Christmas starting an 1870 article entitled “Christmas with the Poets”.
Drop caps bring attention to the start of a new section or chapter, and help people find their way by flipping through the pages of a printed book.
Print jargon: this initial is foliated and vignetted
#initial #dropCap #decoratedInitial #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #vintageEngraving #Christmas #xmas #holly #letterC #the_letter_c
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
Pre-2000s video games didn't need long tutorials. They had printed manuals, for one. And because each player owned only a few games, the player had to spend more time exploring each game. Ease of switching games since then ruined the incentive to persist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwcKWsRCY-k
#GameDesign #RetroGaming #tutorial #fobo #ChoiceParalysis #manual
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-04/pages/017a-detail-man-behind-glass/
A detail from José Benlliure y Gil’s huge oil painting Christmas Mass or Boys’ Choir - https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-04/pages/017-christmas-mass
It looks almost as if the conductor is on the other side of a sheet of glass, a window or door perhaps, pressing one hand against the surface so we see the white of his finger-pads.
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-04/pages/017a-detail-christmas-choir/
A detail from a Spanish painting variously entitled Christmas Mass or Boys’ Choir.
What is the nearest boy holding? The leftmost one has the censer to spread incense, so presumably a Roman Catholic church.
The original 1890s oil painting sold in 2006 for $56K or so.
Scanning at high resolution makes it possible to share small details like this :-) (full picture is 47kx27k px)
#vintageArt #vintageEngraving #fobo #ChurchChoir #choirBoy #singing #music #GIMP3
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Colyer-CotswoldCountry/pages/023-bibury-arlington-row/
The building here, faced with the yellow stone of the Cotswolds region in England, and having a roof of slate tiles, lies beside a river. It was built in 1380 to store wool, and made into individual houses for weavers in the 17th.
It’s now owned by the National Trust.
#oldPhotograph #vintagePhotography #cotswolds #fobo #blackAndWhite #GIMP
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