Nice Etchings

Paradigmata Graphices variorum Artificum, Jan de Bisschop. What seems to be an uncompleted digitisation from manuscriptorium - european digital library of written cultural heritage. I thought I'd grab a few images before they finished it and slapped their watermarks all over them.

Depression Art

In the 1930s the US Treasury Department funded a Public Works of Art Project to support artists. Link…

Karl von Amira

Karl Konrad Ferdinand Maria von Amira (1848-1930), studied jurisprudence in Munich. His collection of drawings, copperplate prints, photographs, etchings, postcards, watercolours and blueprints documenting court scenes, punishments, trials by ordeal and oaths was intended for publication as an Atlas of Legal Archaeology. It was never published but the somewhat eerie and at times, gruesome material is available at The Digital Library Department of the Bavarian State Library. Link…

François Balthazar Solvyns

A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings: Descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos. Calcutta, 1796, 1799. + The Costume of Indostan [pirated edition]. London: Edward Orme [1804-05], 1807. + Les Hindoûs. 4 vols. Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1808-1812. Link…