Tag Archives: Printmaking

1863: Dictionary of Hell

Posted on April 7, 2018 by

   Entries from the 1863 edition of Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal: Amduscias: Grand-duc aux enfers. Il a la forme d’une licorne; mais lors-qu’il est évoqué, il se montre sous une figure humaine. Il donne des concerts, … Continue reading →

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1617: Atalanta Fugiens

Posted on March 25, 2018 by

Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens is an alchemical “emblem book” consisting of 50 illustrations by Matthias Merian, each of which is accompanied by a epigrammatic verse, a philosophical discourse, and a musical fugue. This first emblem shows Boreas, the North Wind, … Continue reading →

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1929: From a Paris Plane

Posted on March 22, 2018 by

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson: From a Paris Plane (1929)

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1936: Gold Were His Limbs where He Was Bird

Posted on March 10, 2018 by

In 1921, the Istituto nazionale dantesco in Milan commissioned a lavish edition of the Divine Comedy to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Dante’s death; the edition was to include an original color plate for each of the 100 canti of … Continue reading →

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1990: Monte Carlo

Posted on March 6, 2018 by

Robert Bechtle: Working Proof 2 for Albany Monte Carlo (1990)

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1894: Versions

Posted on February 17, 2018 by

  Kobayashi Kiyochika: Our Naval Forces in the Yellow Sea Firing at and Sinking Chinese Warships (1894) Josh Cochran: Tritons (c. 2006) Kiyochika’s print is propaganda celebrating Japan’s military superiority in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. Sources here and here. … Continue reading →

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1815: Three Crows

Posted on December 18, 2017 by

Totoya Hokkei: 「三ひらの内」日輪に烏 [Three Crows against the Rising Sun] (mid 1810’s)

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