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barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-11-21

fromoldbooks.org/IllustratedLo
fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/385
fromoldbooks.org/r/R/pages/385

The first London underground railway (now affectionately called the tube); the 1870 newspaper article about it is in the description in the first Web link above.

It was narrow-gauge, 2'6", and would have been more cramped than the third picture suggests.

#vintageEngravings #oldNews #fobo #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #IllustratedLondonNews #1870 #railway #railways #tube #londonUnderground #history

Here we see people lining up to experience the first underground railway in London. There seems to have been a single carriage, dvided into first and second class, and pulled by a steel wire connected to an outside steam engine.A workman sits in a rather small “omnibus” or railway carriage, seemingly outside the door on a bench, his booted feet resting on an extension of the carriage floor that reaches two railway wheels. This was a narrow-gauge train. He is not well lit, but through the glass window in the wooden door behind him we see people inside the carriage itself.The inside of the carriage, with seated passengers, including a lady in a formal gown, men with top hats, a woman with a muffler to warm her hands, and a boy in school uniform with his bag and his phone. The carriage is lit by a single oil lamp, and seems much wider in this picture than it really was, since the tunnel itself was only six feet eight inches at its widest, and the carriage would have been quite a bit narrower in order to fit safely inside.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-11-20

fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustr

I got the book in Lisbon when i had to stay unexpectedly overnight, and the hotel was next to a wonderful bookshop. It includes several serialized stories; this one is Misadventures of an Insect Colony, by Erneste Cadèze, an entomologist, written to try to make more people like insects.

#GIMP #GIMP3 #fobo #dam #insects #engraving #Gimp_3 #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #downrightWeird

Two insects wearing top hats (as they do) sit on a leaf and look at a large dam, probably hydro-electric, in the distance. The dam is surmounted by a huge statue of a lion, and there’s a building at the bottom with a tall chimney, possibly a mill or factory.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-11-19

fromoldbooks.org/LewisCaroll-A

The Dalziel Brothers did a great job engraving this Tenniel picture, with a stuck-up Queen Alice knocking on a Royal door (in Norman style) with her scepter while the frog servant holds a rake.

The Dalziel Brothers were a respectable London firm of engravers for many years and did a lot of great work.

#alice #AliceThroughTheLookingGlass #lewisCarrol #royalty #fobo #vintageArt #engraving #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #Dalziel #Tenniel

Alice is now a Queen (a chess-piece, that is), and stands in front of an arched door (with Norman-English architecture) talking to a person-sized frog.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-11-17

fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeAr

After a painting by Fernand Pelez, a Spanish-born artist living in Paris known for painting beggars and the homeless, circus performers, and the poor.

Genre paintings like this became popular in the 19th century, alongside more traditional formal classical portraits and hunting or battle scenes. Often they are very idealised, but i think not here.

#vintageArt #fobo #laundry #washing #vintageEngraving #GIMP #GIMP3 #GImp_3

Black and white vintage engraving. Two women are working on laundry. One (on our right) is scrubbing cloth with a bar of soap on a table; the other is wringing out cloth at a wooden tub of water on a three-legged wooden stand, staring with a half-smile as if to say, “why don’t you stop painting and help us?” The woman on our right is wearing clogs. These are ordinary working people from the nineteenth century.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-11-15

fromoldbooks.org/Thomson-TheLa

The tomb of King Hiram I... or not... this author is not as gullible as the one who bought a piece of “the tower of babel” and brought it home as a keepsake, in another book i have, but this tomb is some 500+ years after Hiram.

It is described as being in Palestine; with more modern borders the area is in Lebanon.

#fobo #palestine #vintageArt #biblicalPlaces #KingHiram #tomb #vintageEngraving #engraving #GIMP #Gimp_3 #GIMP3

Large rectangular slabs of limestone in a black and white engraving; some graves nearby; two Arabs nearby. The area was a necropolis in the Persian period (540 BCE to the time of Alexander the Great in the 330 or so BCE), and later a Christian church and graveyard were here.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-11-10

fromoldbooks.org/Rouam-MuseeAr

Time for some cherubs and a putto or two! How many cherubs are there in the picture?

#Engraving of a frieze by Louis Tettelin (1615-1655).

Last one from this book for a while i think, although i just scanned (with #xsane) from Volume V in the same fabulous series...

#fobo #vintageArt #vintageEngraving #cherubs #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #baroqueArt #notAFountain

A gargoyle or grotesque head for a stone fountain with seven winged barefoot and naked boys (putti, or cherubs) being mischievous and getting into fights. Although the grotesque head here looks like a fountain spout, what actually comes out are festoons, not water, tied to rings at either end of the sculpture. It must have been chaos in the studio, getting all these little children to be still long enough to paint them!
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-10-15

fromoldbooks.org/Bradley-Engla

This is the #Barbican, a toll booth & house for the toll-keeper, in the town of #Sandwich, in #Kent. A #vintageEngraving in the style of a #pencilSketch .

Yes, this is where the 4th Earl, John Montagu, asked for his meat to be served between slices of bread so he didn’t have to get up from the gambling table to eat, back in 1762.

The book appears to be wrong about when the Barbican was built (14th, not 16th C.)

#vintageArt #GIMp #xsane #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #fobo #bridge

A wide arch with a roof and two circular turrets one on each side, at one end of a bridge. There are boats moored nearby, punts perhaps, and it looks like three people, maybe two men and a boy, are about to rent one. One of the turrets has a weather vane at the top.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-10-13

fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-

Karl Gampenrieder was known for his accurate portraits of society women; he went onto paint a portrait of Princess Elvira of Bavaria (no, not that Elvira), garnering some fame at the time.

I think the fellow in the picture is quite smitten. Either that or his moustache is about to start spinning & he’ll take off.

#vintageArt #valentinesDay #moustache #victorianCostumes #GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #vintageEngraving #KarlGampenrieder

She: sits wears boots, a long pleated dress, long gloves almost to the elbows, a bodice or corset and blouse, and a bonnet with a cheese-making factory on top. She carries a parasol in one hand, lowered, the other in her lap. He: lies on his stomach, supported by his forearms, wearing a suit and spats and a fat cap, sporting a wide moustache, and gazes intently at the lady. In the background people carry heavy baskets or barrels or drums on shore from boars, perhaps offloading a cargo of fish. Is he about to propose to her? It seems by the stripes on his cravat not unlikely.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-10-05

fromoldbooks.org/Creighton-Eng

Mandell Creighton used (in the 1880s and 90s) to write a magazine column about places in England.

Here is #Lutterworth in 1879, engraved by Fred Whymper.

Famously, John Wycliffe was a vicar at Lutterworth Church.

When i processed this image with #GIMP last month for the Web site i thought i’d done it before; i since found it in the magazine, but i had not scanned it.

#fobo #vintageArt #england #uk #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #Lutterworth #bridge #village #vintageEngraving

This 1890s engraving of the road into the village or small town of Lutterworth shows the church tower in the background, River Swift Bridge on High Street near Riverside Road in the foreground. John Wycliffe was a vicar at Lutterworth Church.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-09-20

fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-Histor

Recently i wrote that Names of Angels was the 2nd most popular image on fromoldbooks.org; this is the most popular, a 19th century engraving of Sir Isaac Newton, famous for inventing the apple.

I’m actually not certain why it’s so popular - i should check!

Today i added the shirt, prints, socks... redbubble.com/shop/ap/174109620

Scanned with #xsane and cleaned up with #GIMP3 (#Gimp_3).

#vintageArt #portrait #isaacNewton #Newton #fobo #engraving #vintageEngraving #scientist

A man’s somewhat plump fact, a curly wig on his head and reaching well past his shoulders, and a white neck-scarf - this is the 18th century scientist Isaac Newton. Black and white engraving.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-09-01

fromoldbooks.org/LaFranceIllus

This engraving of a worker is from “The harvest” (les vandages); he has one hand on his left hip & in his right holds a basket with a long strap for carrying grapes on his back..

I’ll post the full harvest picture later.

Exiftool says i scanned him at 944 pixels per cm. This is 2400dpi, so that’s plausible. It makes him 1.6 inches tool, so i hope the grapes are small!

#GIMP #GIMP3 #fobo #vintageArt #worker #man #woodcut #worker #Gimp_3 #engraving #vintageEngraving

This field worker is busy harvesting; he is a detail from a much larger image i plan to post separately. He wears a straw boater or similar hat, a waistcoat, a long-sleeved shirt, long trousers and i think clogs, and in his right hand carries a basket.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2025-07-15

Niccolò Paganini on the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Death (1900)

fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-

I think the title means that this portrait was published on the fiftieth anniversary of Paganini’s death, although his eyes do look a little hollow so who knows?

Paganini, of course, was a famous Italian composer and violist. He was not, i think the inventor of the panini, but should have been.

#GIMP #Paganini #violinist #fobo #vintageArt #portrait #composer #musician #music #engraving #vintageEngraving

Here we have a man wearing a button-up jacket and a white cravat and collar, with long unkempt hair down to his shoulders, holding a violin under his chin, a bow in the other hand, and an alluring half-smile on his face.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2024-12-06

fromoldbooks.org/Lloyd-Familie

A man in top hat and tails plays the flute outside a bedroom window, standing on the top of a wall. Vintage engraving ‘The Serenade” from Lloyd’s 1857 family book (Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise).

The book describes him as a dreamy youth.

From a painting by G. Neumann & engraved by Heinrich Petersen (1806-1870)

#fromOldBooks #vintageEngraving #engraving #romantic #romance #courting #courtship #love #moonlight #valentinesDay

A flautist on the rooftops in the moonlight! He is standing on top of a wall to play his flute outside someone’s bedroom window, watched by a cat. He wears a top hat and tails so i hope the climb was not too difficult.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2024-11-08

fromoldbooks.org/DasBuchFurAll

The washer-woman or maid has already put the violin through the tub or hot water and soap and is now orking on the viola. The owner rushes into the room in a panic!

An engraving from 1890.

The original painting was auctioned in 2021, as “Spring Cleaning, or, A Diligent Housekeeper.”

Amusing but strong classist undertones.

#vintageEngraving #fobo #humour #humor #funny #music #cleaner #classistBigotry #LouisGunnis #angry #anger #viola #fromOldBooks

A washer-woman is cleaning a viola in a tub of hot water (ruining it of course) and a distraught musician is running towards her.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2024-10-29

Is that a quidditch snitch in her hand?

This engraving was made to sell the borders in it, & appeared in a printer’s catalogue of 1917.

fromoldbooks.org/Strong-BookOf

More at fromoldbooks.org/Strong-BookOf

#artDeco #artNouveau #jugendStile #fromOldBooks #vintageEngraving #quidditch #harryPotter #GIMP #xsane

PS: mention of quidditch is NOT an endorsement of the views of its inventor...

line drawing with a woman seen from below, her thigh prominent, holding up a ball wings, and banners and borders, including an octagonal border with roses.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2024-10-28

“Chaldee Woman” taken from John Clark Ridpath’s “Great Races of Mankind” Vol III (1893).

The drawing is credited to Emile Bayard “From a photograph”.

fromoldbooks.org/Ridpath-Great

#vintageEngraving #fromOldBooks #costume #historicalCostume #woman

A woman faces us, leaning back against a roughly-drawn wall. She wears a shawl and maybe a long scarf, and her face is visible.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2023-03-25

Karl Heffner (1849 – 1925) was a Bavarian musician who became interested in art after working for an English art dealer, Tom Wallis, and ended up exhibiting and even being commissioned by Edward Prince Regent (the future king Edward VII).

This picture may have been painted on a wooden frame in this shape, i’m not sure; the reproduction i scanned was an engraving.

#fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #vintageEngraving #oilPainting #art #vintageArt #landscape #river #riverScene #picture

This colour engraving of a detailed painting shows a water-side lansdcape with perhaps a classical temple in the background amongst tall trees. There’s a cloudy sky. Near the riverbank or lakeside, a lady in a grey dress holds something orange.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2023-03-16

fromoldbooks.org/Paracelsus-Ar

Some magic circles taken from a 1656 English translation of a manuscript of “Celestial Medicine” said to be by Paracelsus (1493–1541). These circles, when engraved onto coins made in a particular way at the right time, are said to invoke the mysterious power of the Zodiac. Wow.

I won’t toot here for each image :)

#fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #vintageEngraving #illustration #engraving #occult #religion #ancientMedicine #magicCircles #zodiac #astrology #Aries

Occult symbols (and some garbvles Hebrew and maybe Greek) in a circle surrounded by gibberish in an ourter ring, EONVAGORRAEETALO PBRATL which looks like an anagram for A Portabello Engraver!
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2023-03-10

A fanciful reconstruction of Druidic worship at Stonehenge (1884)

fromoldbooks.org/Dobbins-Error

There's no actual evidence of human sacrifice being used - the Roman accounts of “druids” are as accurate as Putin's accounts of Ukraine - and it was built before the pyramids, long pre-Roman :)

#fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #vintageEngraving #illustration #engraving #worship #religion #druids #stonehenge #stoneCircle #snakeWorship

Black and white engraving showing a bird's-eye view of Stonehenge as a complete circle, with people milling around. There are large banners draped over Sarcen stones with pictures of snakes on them.
barefootliambarefootliam@floss.social
2023-02-26

fromoldbooks.org/Morris-Pictur

Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, UK

Known today especially for its gardens, Alnwick Castle was first buyilt in 1096, possibly on the site of an earlier Roman fort. It was rebuilt in the 1300s and again in the 1700s. The same family has lived there, Percy, since around 1300.

#statelyHome #fobo #fromOldBooks #clipart #vintageEngraving #illustration #engraving #bigHouse #countryHouse #castle #medieval #alnwick #earlyColourPrinting

Alnwick castle seen at sunset from the other side of the River Aln. It's large and has multiple distinct buildings. Bridge and trees in foreground.

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