https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Burton-WonderfulProdigies/pages/p092a-barefoot-for-three-days/
A 1680s book i apparently bought for $60 years ago... about horrid people like atheists, popes, apostates, tyrants, sailors and more. Here, a pope makes a king stand barefoot in the snow for 3 days, along with his wife and son. In the end the pope’s mistress interceded.
#woodcut #vintageEngraving #pope #king #barefoot #blackAndWhite #pope #king #fobo #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane
The workflow i use might be interesting -
scan with xsane on Linux at 16 bits per channel/2400dpi (professional scanner). Usually greyscale though.
Then to #GIMP and clean up then resize for Alamy stock & for Web.
Wonder if there’d be interest in videos about the clean-up process?
#GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane #epson #epsonExpression10000XL #scannedArt #libreGraphics
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/pages/09-lions/
and
https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/pages/09-lions-detail-face/
Engraving of 2 lions, and detail.
This is another engraving from the books with awesome covers, vol 1 this time. Orig. painting by Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (1842 – 1915).
#vintageArt #vintageEngraving #lion #lions #zoo #blackAndWhite #fobo #animalsInCaptivity #GIMP #GIMP3 #xsane #scannedArt
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.
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