Another inspiration was an engraving from a treatise about sunspots by the Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner.
One of the exhibition's most arresting prints is an engraving from around 1498 called "The Sea Monster".
This year, it presented a new, high-resolution image of the document taken from an engraving from 1823.
On at least three occasions I took an engraving from the books and paired it with an Op-Ed article — a perfect marriage of text and image.
Redon studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme; mastered engraving from Rodolphe Bresdin, who exerted an important influence; and learned lithography under Henri Fantin-Latour.
We inched toward an Andrea Mantegna, a bizarre engraving from the early fourteen-seventies of Silenus, the hideous and yet entrancing fat man.
"I saw a tall stone behind them," she continued, "and I had to walk around to see the engraving from the other side.
An engraving from Albrecht Dürer's "Instructions for Measuring with Compass and Ruler," from 1525, depicting an artist's use of a perspective device.
A 1724 engraving from a possible lost self-portrait of Buchinger, made by an unknown artist in London, reproduces the micrography that formed the artist's wig: "seven complete Psalms and the Lord's Prayer," Jay assures us.
The first lot, a good engraving from 1786 by Maurice Blot reproducing Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's picture of the children of King Louis XVI, shot up to €389, or $540, quadrupling the highest expectations.
In "The Devonshire, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes," a political engraving from 1784, the fashionably dressed Duchess of Devonshire kisses a butcher to win votes for her candidate, the Whig reformer Charles James Fox.
