He worked mainly in woodcut, although he made six engravings, one very fine.

The collection consists in approximatively 2, 000 paintings ( including pictures by Nicolas Poussin, Anthony Van Dyck, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert and Ingres ), 600 pieces of decorative arts, 600 architectural elements, nearly 15, 000 medals, 3, 700 sculptures, 20, 000 drawings including works by Paolo Veronese, Primaticcio, Jacques Bellange, Michelangelo, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Dürer, Rembrandt, Ingres, François Boucher or Pierre Alechinsky, 45, 000 architectural drawings, 100, 000 etchings and engravings, 70, 000 photographs ( mainly form the period 1850-1914 ), 65, 000 books dating from the 15th to the 20th century ( 3, 500 for the 15th and 16th centuries ), and 1, 000 handwritten pieces of archive ( letters, inventories, notes ...) and also 390 important fragments or complete illuminated manuscripts.

From Later Stone Age times, mainly, there is a wealth of rock art sites – most of which are in the form of rock engravings such as at Wildebeest Kuil and many sites in the area known as ǀXam-ka! kau, in the Karoo.

The capitals of the columns are mainly Ionic and Corinthian styles, with the exception of a few Doric style with no engravings.

The media and the forms of the graphemes are diverse: engravings in stone or metal, scratches on rock, impressions in wax, embossing on cast metal, cameo or intaglio on precious stones, painting on ceramic or in fresco.

Early in his career he was active in several branches of his profession: sometimes a decorative painter, more frequently producing portraits and altarpieces, woodcuts, engravings, and designing the coins for the electorate.

For example, the late W. R. Rearick gave him Il Tramonte ( see Gallery ) and he is an alternative choice for a number of drawings that might be by Titian or Giorgione, and both are sometimes credited with the design of some of his engravings.

Thomson was a photographer and this book contains his pictures some of which provided the basis for the engravings ( sometimes mis-identified ) in Anna Leonowens ' books.

He occasionally cleans and repairs clocks and watches and sometimes deals in oleographs, engravings and pictures.

" Wishing him to be sometimes " less wonderful and more terrible ," Ruskin also pointed out the superior merits of his sketched work, especially in watercolour, to the often contrived picturesque qualities of many of his exhibited oils and the watercolours on which published engravings were based.

He made cartoons for tapestry-weavers and, like all 16th-century court artists, was called upon to design elaborate ephemeral decorations for masques and fêtes, which survive only in preparatory drawings and, sometimes, engravings.

In engravings and line drawings, it is sometimes depicted as a region of crossed horizontal and vertical lines or else marked with sa.

Sculptures and reliefs attributed to him and his studio have been lost to time, and are sometimes only evidenced by sketches and engravings.

The under packing consisted of loose fibre paper / board ( sometimes known as saffron ) which absorbed the impact of the letterpress principle thus avoiding damage to the hand-set or pre-cast typography or engravings.

By this date, Gutenberg may have been familiar with intaglio printing ; it is claimed that he had worked on copper engravings with an artist known as the Master of Playing Cards.

Currency has since been printed primarily by the intaglio method, whereby fine-line engravings are transferred to steel plates from which an impression is made on sheets of distinctive paper.

An engraving burin is used predominantly by intaglio engravers, but also by relief printmakers in making wood engravings.

Since wood engraving is a relief process ( ink is applied to the raised surface of the block ) while metal engraving is an intaglio technique, wood engravings deteriorated much less quickly than copper-plate engravings and had a distinctive white-on-black character.

Houdon's sculptures were used as models for the engravings used on various U. S. Postage stamps of the late 19th and early 20th centuries which depict Washington in profile.

In art, Myrrha's seduction of her father has been illustrated by German engraver Virgil Solis, her tree-metamorphosis by French engraver Bernard Picart and Italian painter Marcantonio Franceschini, while French engraver Gustave Doré chose to depict Myrrha in Hell as a part of his series of engravings for Dante's Divine Comedy.

Its walls are covered with paintings and engravings dating back to between 27, 000 and 19, 000 BC and depict many terrestrial animals such as bison, ibex, and horses as well as sea mammals like seals and auks.

* The Audubon Museum at John James Audubon State Park in Henderson, Kentucky houses many of Audubon's original watercolors, oils, engravings and personal memorabilia.

The examples of a rich and hectic decorative style at Fontainebleau transferred the Italian style, through the medium of engravings, to Antwerp and thence throughout Northern Europe, from London to Poland, and brought Mannerist design into luxury goods like silver and carved furniture.

The fresco became a source of numerous engravings circulating in Georgia at that time and inspired the poet Grigol Orbeliani to dedicate a romantic poem to it.

The record of the treasure, however, now exists only in the fine engravings made at the time of its discovery and in some reproductions made for the Habsburgs.

His designs for all of the aforementioned augmented his earlier reputation, resulting in many engravings from his work and even reproduction of his designs on porcelain and biscuit-ware at the Vincennes and Sèvres factories.

Noteworthy are also the many special collections at Leiden University Library among which those of the Society of Dutch Literature ( 1766 ) and the collection of casts and engravings.

Its walls are covered with paintings and engravings dating back to between 27, 000 and 19, 000 BC, depicting animals such as bison, ibex, and horses, as well as sea mammals such as seals, and at least one bird, the auk.

He wrote introductions for a few books such as a new edition of George Borrow's Wild Wales ; he gave radio talks on the BBC Third Programme ; he even tried his hand at an extended consideration of Coleridge's poem for a reprinting of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner featuring his own introduction and illustrations with a series of copper engravings.

* Uncle Tom's cabin: or Life among the lowly ; frontispiece by John Gilbert ; ornamental title-page by Phiz ; and 130 engravings on wood by Matthew Urlwin Sears, 1853 ( a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; DjVu & layered PDF format )

The new works at Fontainebleau were recorded in refined and detailed engravings that circulated among connoisseurs and artists.

There are also Aboriginal sites, military fortifications and historic sites stretching back to the early years of the colony, plus archaeological features and over a thousand engravings at the Quarantine Station.

Although he himself had never been there, he undoubtedly knew from drawings and engravings of examples in buildings, such as the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, and had already used one to great effect at his Château du Raincy.

The fruit of his labours ( completed at the end of 1546 ) was published in 1548 at Zürich in a huge folio of 934 pages ( with many fine wood engravings, coats of arms, maps, & c .), under the title of Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen und Voelckeren Chronick wirdiger thaaten Beschreybung ( an extract from it was published in 1554, under the name of Schwytzer Chronika, while new and greatly enlarged editions of the original work were issued in 1586 and 1606 ).

It may be portrayed in engravings by a series of parallel lines at a 45-degree angle running from upper right to lower left from the point of view of an observer, or else indicated by the abbreviation purp.

He then moved for a short time to Rome, where he completed a set of engravings representing frescoes at Grottaferrata by Domenichino depicting the life of St Nilus.

These and other works became well known at the time through engravings of Stubbs's work, which appeared in increasing numbers in the 1770s and 1780s.

First published in 1714 by Giovanni Maria Lancisi, and again in 1744 by Cajetan Petrioli, and again in 1744 by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, and subsequently at Bonn in 1790, the engravings show that Eustachius had dissected with the greatest care and diligence, and taken the utmost pains to give just views of the shape, size, and relative position of the organs of the human body.

Kanyakumari takes its name from the Hindu Goddess Kanyakumari ( also called Kumari Amman ). The Kanniyakumari amman temple is situated in the town, on the seashore, where there is the confluence of the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. 1931 Travancore census records the rule of Villavarayar kings for 800 years, and the stone engravings at Bhagavathi Amman Temple asserts it was built by Bharathar kings as a sign of reverence to the sea goddess.

Marot was working independently as an engraver from an early age, making engravings of designs by Jean Bérain, one of Louis XIV's official designers at the Manufacture des Gobelins, where far more than tapestry was being produced.

Simple local wares were being made in the 15th century at Urbino, but after 1520 the Della Rovere dukes, Francesco Maria I della Rovere and his successor Guidobaldo II, encouraged the industry, which exported wares throughout Italy, first in a manner called istoriato using engravings after Mannerist painters, then in a style of light arabesques and grottesche after the manner of Raphael's stanze at the Vatican.

He caused engravings to be made, at his own expense, of Bartoli's copies from ancient pictures and published Nouveaux sujets de peinture et de sculpture ( 1755 ) and Tableaux tirés de l ' Iliade, de l ' Odyssée, et de l ' Enéide ( 1757 ).

He published engravings of the tools in pamphlets and displayed the instruments at public meetings.