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Scenic Engravings

Detailed landscapes and city views, created through line engraving, capturing nature and architecture with a serene atmosphere.

Print, Niobe, from Ovid's Metamorphoses; Print Maker: William Wolleft; engraving (etching) on paper; Bequest of George Campbell Cooper; 1896-3-346
Print, Niobe, from Ovid's Metamorphoses; Print Maker: William Wolleft; engraving (etching) on paper; Bequest of George Campbell Cooper; 1896-3-346
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Native American swimmer-couriers in Peru, 1800s. Men with letters wrapped in turbans swim in rivers between Quito and Jaen de Bracamoros Province. Where the rapids are too dangerous, they cut a path through the jungle with a knife. Copied from Alexander von Humboldt's Vues des Codilleres. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.
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Druidical Monuments (restored), at Abury, Witshire, Illustration from John Cassell's Illustrated History of England, Vol. I from the earliest period to the reign of Edward the Fourth, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1857
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Hébron.. Félix Bonfils (French, 1831 - 1885)