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Study of an owl-y creature in the foreground of Brueghel's "Last Judgement" drawing - I love how the woven texture of the paper looks with this print!
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Decayed Daguerreotypes by Mathew Brady’s Studio, 1800s.
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Vale Dawn - Laura Boswell
British , b . ?
Combined Linocut and Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) ,
44.5 x 30 cm. Ed. 25.
'Yes, my dear Watson, I have solved the mystery.' 'But what fresh evidence can you have got?' 'Aha! It is not for nothing that I have turned myself out of bed at the untimely hour of six. I have put in two hours' hard work and covered at least five miles, with something to show for it. Look at that!' He held out his hand. On the palm were three little pyramids of black, doughy clay.
Linocut study of an ink drawing by Richard Gutschmidt, my favourite Holmes illustrator.
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Unknown Photographer, Portrait of Lyman Alvinson Rundell in Mining-Themed Shirt, c. 1855
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I’ve been playing around with some old Apple Macs via emulation and got inspired to do some 1bit pixel art! Screen res and layout is supposed to be a one for one copy of the original Mac 128k (System 1) The “Bad Dog” is one of my Inktober sketches from last year. 512*342, Black and White. Painted in Pixaki on an iPad.
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Packstone Excavation
2023, 51x44 inches, hand dyed cotton with textile discharge painting and cotton thread (hand quilted)
i was thinking about my fossil soup stones I collected in michigan last summer and naturally had to make a quilt. all the fossil shapes were hand painted with decolorant instead of appliqué as I was thinking about the process of excavation and removal.
Source: samimarkportfolio.com
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Johannes Hartlieb, Kräuterbuch (Book of Herbs), 1462
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Singular Effects of the Universal Vegetable Pills on a Green Crocer, 1841
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Textile patterns from the Igbo women’s weaving industry at Akwete, now in southern Abia State. National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague.
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A reprieve ༘ a short rest under a low shady tree.
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Der Hund von Baskerville (Richard Oswald, 1929).
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AMERICAN, PROBABLY PENNSYLVANIA, FOLK ART CUT-WORK /
SCHERENSCNITTE VALENTINE.
an outstanding example, featuring pairs of distelfink / lovebirds, star-like devices, and unusual bust-length profile portraits of opposing figures, eight-stanza sentimental verse running clockwise within the design, unsigned. Conservation mounted in a contemporary painted frame.
Jeffrey Evans
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Collection of Pressed Flowers ❀
These pressed flowers were collected by George Marr whilst serving as a soldier in Salonika, Greece, during the First World War.
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Watercolour illustrations from Mary Gartside’s An Essay on a New Theory of Colours (1808). Hand-made and unique to each volume, the images have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting. More in our latest post on the site — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gartside-theory-of-colours
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Pablo Picasso, Sans titre (L’écuyère), approx. 10 x 13 cm, 1952