Close up on a copper engraving “Temperance” (1560) by Phillip Galle after Bruegel. The detail and many concurrent stories happening in these pictures are mind-boggling. There is a one for each the deadly sins and the virtues too. Some of them are very NSFW (and instagram), but are at the same time amusing and satirical as well as quite hellish… On loan from the @albertinamuseum - - #Breugel #Kunsthistorischesmuseum #kunsthistorisches #Wien #temperance #engraving #art @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna #albertina #Vienna #arthistory #deadlysins #virtue #religiousart #austria #InstaMuseum #instart #instawien #museum #museen #astronomer #satire #rotterdam #temperantia #moon (at Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqhv4XDlTvw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8e50w92k4l4n
Daniel Boone / photograph of a vintage Daniel Boone (1734-1820) engraving by William T. Johnson from the painting by Thomas Sully (1783-1872) / printed within Century Magazine January 1887
False Coat of Arms / created “with no authority” by Thomas Chilcot,(1707-1766) the organist of Bath Cathedral and then used as his bookplate (photographed here in detail) from a 1739 bound copy of “The Spectator”
Made you look :) / photograph of a vintage engraving “Cuts Showing Progressive Changes in Bullets” from “American Arms and Ammunition” by William C. Church 1879
Preaching Shame to the Naked / photograph of the engraving “Introduction of Christianity Into Russia” - listed as “drawn by Charlemagne, Court Painter of Russia” from “Peter the Great” 1884 by Eugene Shuyler
Oh Waiter! / photograph of 1884 engravings drawn by Nicolas Dmitrieff (1838-1898) of the “Orthodox Signs of the Cross, In Benediction” and “… In Prayer”
Thésée et le Minotaure / photograph of a vintage 1885 engraving by J.H.E. Whitney within Century Magazine - taken from a photograph from the plaster cast of the work by Antoine Louis Barye (1796-1875) (1885 photograph originally taken with the permission of the Ferdinand Barbédienne Foundry in Paris - Barbédienne Purchased 125 casting models from the late Antoine Louis Barye’s sale in 1876. He set about casting and selling editions of these sculptures which was very successful, devoting an entire catalogue to these works.)
