Showing posts with label woodcuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woodcuts. Show all posts
Friday, January 18, 2013
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Anonymous... The Learned Man, 1511... Woodcut
from Liber de sensibus in Que hoc volumine continentur by Charles de Bovelles (Charles de Bouelles, Carolus Bovillus) (1479-1553)
a treatise on the senses. more HERE
Labels:
1500's,
anonymous,
bookplates,
Charles de Bovelles,
early rare books,
woodcuts
Monday, April 30, 2012
ERNST BARLACH (1870-1938) ... illustrations...woodcuts...a happy Walpurgisnacht!
illustrations from
Goethes Walpurgisnacht
Terrible enchanted forms,
Dragon-women, men-wolf swarms!
Wilder yet the sounds are growing!
See, the archfiend comes, all-glowing!
From the ground
Hellish vapours rise around!
from THE FIRST WALPURGIS-NIGHT.
more illustrations here
Monday, January 16, 2012
Buday György (1907-1990)... The Tragedy of Man ...woodcuts... 1933
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
T. Sturge Moore (1870-1944)... Pan as an Island...c1902
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Josef Váchal's mystical Tarot cards...1912
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Liv Rainey-Smith... Woodcuts ... Satyr
Shub ~ The Early Years © Liv Rainey-Smith
"Shub-Niggurath" ~ 2008 © Liv Rainey-Smith
Thursday, July 28, 2011
František Kobliha (1877 - 1962)... woodcuts..
Monday, July 18, 2011
Christoph Krieger ... Woodcut 1590
from
De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due . . . (Of Ancient and Modern Dress of Diverse Parts of the World in Two Books . . .), 1590
Cesare Vecellio (Italian, ca. 1521–1601)
Cesare Vecellio (Italian, ca. 1521–1601)
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Jörg Breu the Elder (c. 1475-1537)... Woodcut
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Lynd Ward... Mad Man's Drum.. Part 1
a few scans from one of my favourite artists, and one of the finest wood engravers of the twentieth century ..
Mad Man Drum ~ A Novel in Woodcuts
Monday, December 20, 2010
Eric William Ravilious(1903-1942)... Woodcut
Doctor Faustus Conjuring Mephistophilis 1929
Ravilious was a prolific British illustrator and worked predominantly with wood engravings. The subject for this work relates to the 16th century medical practitioner, Dr. Johannes Faust who, legend has it, sold his soul to Mephistopheles, an evil spirit.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Jean Gabriel Daragnes (French, 1886-1950)...Woodcuts...Satyr
two scans from a favourite book "The Modern Woodcut" by Herbert Furst
on one of my favourite obsessions... Le Satyre
Here illustrating Paul Claudel's "Protee"
Daragnes also illustrated Oscar Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" Gerard de Nerval's "Main Enchantee" and Poe's "Raven" to name a few
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..let there be darkness as I await my portion in which will be created from my soul the drop ready to fall in its greatest heaviness. Let me offer a libation to you in the shadows, like the mountain spring that offers drink to the Ocean in its little shell!
Paul Claudel
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Francis A Shurrock... Woodcut
" Be still earth be silent
be still and be silent"
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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