More flies to go fishing with. Sunken mounts containing samples of fly-making materials from W. H. Aldam’s 1876 work “Aldam’s Flees & the Art a Artyfichall Flee Making” Taken from the website of PBA Galleries.
Category: Plates (llustrations) from books
Why keep anything plain looking around when it could look like these. So much more fun. Plates from Christopher Dresser’s 1876 work “Studies in Design” which was published in London. A. Goater, lithographer.
Ancient Egyptians living forever on the walls of tombs. Stare at them long enough and you’ll think you are sitting under a palm tree staring at a pyramid. Plates from Giovanni Battista Belzoni’s 1821 work “Voyages En Égypte Et En Nubie”. Collections of the Heidelberg University Library.
Engravings of an India that isn’t coming back. Plates from Robert Montgomery Martin’s 1858 work about India which has letterpress descriptions written by Emily (Emma) Roberts. Martin wrote several books dealing with various parts of the British Empire.
Flowers from just a little bit back. 16th century. Flemish. Engravings, plates from Adriaan Collaert’s work “Florilegium.” Collaert lived from around 1560 to 1618 and was from a family filled with printmakers.
Some days you just can’t decide anything. These will decide for you. Complementary color wheels you can use to figure out what color to paint the front door, taken from “Color Schemes for the Home and Model Interiors” which came out in 1922.
Flies to go salmon fishing with. Plates from George M. Kelson’s 1895 work “The Salmon Fly: How to Dress it and How to Use It” which was published in London.
Orchids, chromolithographic plates from Frederick Boyle’s 1901 work “The Woodlands Orchids” which was published in London. J. L. MacFarlane, lithographer.
Stylized animals and plants, plates from Arnold Lyongrun’s 1899 work “Neue freie Dekorationsmotive entwickelt aus dem Tier- und Pflanzenreich : Eine Auswahl von Entwurfen in modernen Stil, mit Rucksicht auf die praktische Verwendung im Kunstgewerbe” which was published in Leipzig by B.F. Voigt. Pochoir prints.
Drypoint prints of 1920s society ladies, mostly Continental but not all. Taken from album number three in a numbered edition of 10 copies that was published in Paris in 1925 and is in an upcoming auction. Artwork by Alex Rzewuski who was a Russian émigré.
