Insects arranged by color from “Betrachtungen über die Farbenpracht der Insekten" by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl. Published by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, 1897.

#naturalhistory #chromolithography #insectart #animalart

Pigeon from “Illustrirtes Mustertauben-Buch” by Gustav Prütz and illustrated by Christian Förster. Hamburg: J. F. Richter, 1884-1886.

#pigeons #birdart #chromolithography #pigeonart #naturalhistory #sciart

Plate of cephalopod by Vérany

Argonauta Argo (1851) by Jean Baptiste Vérany, from Mollusques méditeranéens.

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

pdimagearchive.org/images/4eab67b4-9820-443...

#cephalopods #zoology #chromolithography #squid #art

Decorative patterns from “Plants, Their Natural Growth and Ornamental Treatment” by Frederick Edward Hulme, 1874.

#botanicalart #flowerillustration #decorativearts #chromolithography

Gems and minerals from “Erdgeschichte” by Melchior Neumayr. Leipzig; Bibliographisches Institut 1897.

#naturalhistory #sciart #chromolithography
#minerals #mineralogy

050-drakelowe-hall-q75-500x342.jpg Drakelowe Hall was home to the Gresley family for many years; Sir Hubert Nigel Gresley worked in railways and became famous for his locomotive designs. The contents of the hall were sold in 1931, and

www.fromoldbooks.org/Morris-Pictu...

#DrakeloweHall - An English #mansion with a history going back a thousand years... it was demolished in 1934. Iin the 1950s a power plant was built on the site.

#vintageArt #chromolithography #statelyHome
#GIMP #Gimp_3 #fobo #sirNigelGresley #colourEngraving

Jews' Wailing Place (1890s) by Boulos Meo, from Flowers and Pictures of the Holy Land.

Source: @gettymuseum.bsky.social

pdimagearchive.org/images/0127a806-58da-41b...

#prayer #worship #religion #israel #tradition #color #jerusalem #christianity #chromolithography

Examples of beautiful book bindings from 'Moderne Buch-Einbände' by Gustav Fritzsche. Published in Leipzig in 1878.

Milwaukee Public Library's Rare Books Collection.

#BookBindings #BookHistory #BookDesign #BookCovers #historyofbooks #chromolithography

Mushroom illustrations from 'Les champignons comestibles et les espèces vénéneuses avec lesquelles ils pourrait être confondus' by Fritz Leuba. Neuchatel: Delachaux & Niestlé, [1906].

University of Chicago, Crerar Library.

#chromolithography #naturalhistoryart #mushroomart #mycology

Echinocereus pectinatus cactus from 'Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, annales générales d'horticulture.' Gand (Belgique): Louis Van Houtte. Volume Two, 1846.

University of Chicago Special Collections.

#chromolithography #cactusart #cactus #cacti #naturalhistory #botany #scienceart

‘Naturgeschichte des Tierreichs für Schule und Haus' by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert. Esslingen: J.F. Schreiber, 1886.

University of Chicago Special Collections.

#naturalhistory #chromolithography #animalart #bookhistory

Before four Color CMYK process printing, stones or plates were used to create images. #printing
#chromolithography
#graphicdesign #vintage

I would like to post a card a day on this network. This is a Forbes Lithograph of Bunker Hill monument ca 1876.

Forbes was Louis Prang's son in law and Prang gave a lot of work to Forbes in the 1860s and 1870s but this is a card that Forbes published.
#prang #forbes #chromolithography #ephemera

🇬🇧🎨 Westminster Abbey in London - a chromolithograph by Thomas Ashburton Picken from 1851

#London #Westminster #WestminsterAbbey #England #UK #Britain #UnitedKingdom #FascinatingEurope #Europa #Europe #heritage #cityscape #architecture #art #artwork #vintage #oldviews #lithography #chromolithography

@gallicabnf Détail de la façade de l'Usine Menier à Noisiel. Encyclopédie d'architecture, revue mensuelle des travaux publics et particuliers (vol. 6). Paris, 1877.

c.bnf.fr/SHw

#Gallica #BnF #bibliothèque #library #Noisiel #Menier #usine #factory #chromolithographie #chromolithography