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Kraken Техническая Архитектура Высокопроизводительная Платформа Торговли

22 Apr

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Herb, Fruit, Flower Antique Prints

30 Nov

The Herball, or general historie of plantes by John Gerarde (1545-1612) was one of the most important herbals in the 16th century when there was great interest in practical uses of botany. Cent...

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Strange Animal of New South Wales

08 Sep

Better equipped voyages had a trained artist, but when one was not available a member of the ship’s crew was appointed for this task. Illustrations were hand-drawn until the early 19th century inv...

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Beautiful Butterfly Prints

28 Jun

Almost naïve and arrestingly charming are the distinctive illustrations of birds and animals by the ‘father of British ornithology’ George Edwards (1694-1773), who included butterflies with some of hi...

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Herculaneum Classical Frescoes

27 May

Before cameras were invented, discoveries had to be drawn and then engraved onto metal plates so that they could be printed for publication and circulation. This was necessary for all subjects. Antiqu...

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J.G. Keulemans, fine bird illustrator

10 Mar

John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912) produced thousands of drawings and lithographic plates for over one hundred major bird books and ornithological journals. With his skill as an artist and lithographe...

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William Dampier, enterprising explorer

27 Dec

William Dampier (1651-1715) was the first Englishman to visit Australia, as crew of the buccaneer vessel Cygnet, - in 1688. William Dampier was also the first person to circumnavigate the world three ...

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18thC. Superior Panoramic Views

18 Nov

In 18th century France, Jacques Rigaud engraved romantic scenes quite unlike previous studious engravings and etchings of ancient architecture. The Sun King, Louis XIV commissioned visual records of h...

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Grandville whimsical Flower Ladies.

04 Aug

Entertaining botanical drawings by a French artist and caricaturist, not only personified flowers but also illustrated Grandville’s state of mind in 1847, following the death of three of his...

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Papyrus, Parchment, Paper..Prints

03 Mar

Early Graphic Communication Egyptians were writing and drawing with ink on papyrus around 3,000 BC. They wrote on clay tablets which were cumbersome and heavy. Broken pieces of pottery, tablets of wa...