Georg Agricola. De Re Metallica. 1556.
Hercules Segers. Mountain Valley With Dead Pine Trees, c. 1623. Mountain Valley with Fenced Fields, c. 1615–30. River Valley with a Waterfall, c. 1621-1632. The Mossy Tree, c. 1625–1630. Escape to Egypt, c. 1652. Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right (First version), c. 1625-1630. Mountain Gorge Bordered by a Road, c. 1621-1632. Tobias and the Angel (The Flight into Egypt), c. 1615-1630.
#Hercules Segers#c. 1589 – c. 1638#Mountain Valley With Dead Pine Trees#1625#1622#1623#1622-1625#British Museum#London#engraving#art#Dutch artists#17-century#Metropolitan Museum of Art#Escape to Egypt#1652#etching#drypoint#oil#oil paint#watercolor#watercolour#paper#Rocky Landscape with a Man Walking to the Right#Hearsay of the Soul#Rijksmuseum#magictransistor#magic transistor#Hercules Pietersz Seghers#River valley with a waterfall
Albrecht Dürer. Draughtsman drawing a portrait. 1532.
John Webber. Inland village scenes in Atooi. One of the Sandwich Islands, c. 1785.
#John Webber RA#1751-1793#An Inland View in Atooi#Sandwich Islands#Hawaiian Islands#Hawaii#Castelli#Plate N° 92#art#etching#engraving#print#the voyages of Captain Cook#MagicTransistor#magic transistor#A village scene from the Sandwich Islands#Le Costume Ancien et Modern#Captain Cook#mtr#Captain James Cook FRS#1728–1779#printed
William Blake. Death Pursuing the Soul through the Avenues of Life. 1805.
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Johann Jacob Scheuchzer. Physica Sacra, Iconibus Aeneis Illustrata. 1735.
John Lodge. The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours, Plate II. 1789.
Source: rc.umd.edu
#Vision#Light#Colours#History#Science#Art#engraving#John Lodge#engraver#University of Wisconsin-Madison#University of Maryland#UMD#magictransistor#magic transistor#illustrations#diagrams#infographics#sight#seen#optics#visual art#Joseph Priestley#mathematics#graphics#illustration#content curation#special collections#library#libraries#librarians
Gustave Doré. A Voyage to the Moon. The Adventures of Baron Münchausen. 1867.
Shew Cobind Lall. Hand-colored lithograph, Calcutta, c. 1880.
Theodoor Galle (after Jan van der Straet). Cornelia, de deugdzame moeder van de Gracchi (detail), c. 1597.
Abraham Blooteling. Lions (Plate 4), Varie Leonum Icones, c. 1675.
Source: dia.org
Johann Faulhaber. Newe geometrische und perspectivische Inventiones etlicher sonderbahrer Instrument. Frankfurt am Main. 1610.
Joseph Cornell. Sans titre n°3. Nd.
#Joseph Cornell#1903–1972#Untitled#collage#engraving#Soap Bubble Set#assemblage#construction#art#shadow box#discarded artifacts#Constructivism#The Soap Bubble Sets#magic transistor#magictransistor#Musées de Strasbourg#Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg#n°3#Sans titre#untitled assemblage#no date#Joseph Cornell. Sans titre n°3. Nd.
Thomas Major after David Teniers. Le chirurgien de campagne (detail). 1747.
Wenceslas Hollar
#Wenceslas Hollar#Václav Hollar#1607-1677#Wenzel Hollar#Greek gods#Typhon#Mercury#Mercurius#Neptune#Rome#Ruins#etching#engraving#Jacob blessing Ep hr aim and Manasseh#Coliseum#1673#Triton#Mars#MagicTransistor#Magic Transistor#Brussels#Fables#Mythology#The fox and the goat#Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library#Wenceslaus Hollar
William Blake. Lucifer and the Pope in Hell (The King of Babylon), c. 1794.
Source: britishmuseum.org