https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeArtistiqueV/pages/186-dragon-things-1-birth/
A political cartoon from the 1590s, one of three reproduced in an 1881 French art journal, opposing the protestant king Henri IV of France.
I removed the caption from this image with GIMP ; it was originally above the creatures inside the box, which i reduced accordingly.
#GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #fobo #vintageEngravings #politicalMeme #dragon #vintageArt #engraving #cartoon #GIMP
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeArtistiqueV/pages/001-at-laundry/
After a painting by Fernand Pelez, a Spanish-born artist living in Paris known for painting beggars and the homeless, circus performers, and the poor.
Genre paintings like this became popular in the 19th century, alongside more traditional formal classical portraits and hunting or battle scenes. Often they are very idealised, but i think not here.
#vintageArt #fobo #laundry #washing #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #GImp_3
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Thomson-TheLandAndTheBook/pages/196-tomb-of-hiram/
The tomb of King Hiram I... or not... this author is not as gullible as the one who bought a piece of “the tower of babel” and brought it home as a keepsake, in another book i have, but this tomb is some 500+ years after Hiram.
It is described as being in Palestine; with more modern borders the area is in Lebanon.
#fobo #palestine #vintageArt #biblicalPlaces #KingHiram #tomb #vintageEngraving #engraving #GIMP #Gimp_3 #GIMP3
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Godey-LadysBook-1870a/pages/vol-lxxxi-000-packing-a-trunk/
Mild travel-anxiety humour from 1870, packing #luggage with the whole family trying to close the trunk while the driver awaits.
Scanned this in colour and used the mono mixer in #GIMP to cope with foxing (browning) of the paper - which was blue.
#vintageArt #cartoon #cartoons #funny #travel #travelLife #victorianCostumes #GIMP3 #Gimp_3
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Godey-LadysBook-1870a/pages/000-7-the-first-lesson/
An #engraving #duotone in black and turquoise, a couple in #victorianCostumes are #skating on a pond.
Although #GIMP does not have a duotone mode, RGB in 16 bits per channel seemed to work pretty well. The monitor is calibrated, and the colours don’t look too far off, allowing for acidifying paper and some fading.
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