Tag Archives: hand-colored engraving

The Language of Paper – Deciphering the Secrets of Antique Paper through Its Material Qualities

Often indications of a paper’s place of origin, method of manufacture, and time of creation [...]

How to Distinguish Between the Various Editions of Besler’s ‘Garden of Eichstätt’

A practical guide to understanding and identifying the different editions of Besler’s folio through paper [...]

What is an Engraving? A Guide to Intaglio Printmaking Techniques

This article will examine the intaglio printmaking processes of engraving, etching, and their subsidiaries in [...]

Interspecific Encounters in Audubon’s Birds of America

Picturing Combat between Different Species in Audubon's Prints [...]

A Modernist Approach to Understanding a Selection of Prints from Audubon’s Birds of America

A Discussion of Spatial and Perspectival Distortion, Challenging the Confines of the Print Perimeter, and [...]

What are the differences between an Audubon Havell engraving and Bien Lithograph?

How to differentiate between John James Audubon's two Double-Elephant folio Editions of The Birds of [...]

Spontaneous Surrealism in Mark Catesby’s Artwork

An investigation of the thematic confluences between Surrealist art and Catesby’s prints [...]

The Evolution of Audubon’s White-headed Eagle

The confluence of creative mechanisms behind Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon’s depictions of the [...]

Merian’s Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname

Visualizing Contained Ecosystems and Insect Development [...]

Audubon’s Havell Edition of the Raven and American Crow

Sensorial engagement and the challenging of object-viewer relations in Audubon's prints [...]

Catesby’s Crustaceans – Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands

Picturing Oddity and Abundance in British Colonial America. [...]

“A Transcript from Living Nature”

An overview of the structural blueprint underlying Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology [...]