Sentence examples for engravings about from inspiring English sources

"Gods' Man" — 139 wood engravings about a destitute artist seeking fame and fortune, who accepts a magic brush from a mysterious stranger — almost demands that the reader insert imaginary dialogue between the pictures, even within each frame.

Its original begetter was the melancholic artist Robert Seymour who, in November 1835, suggested to Chapman and Hall that they underwrite a series of engravings about the adventures of a cockney sporting club.

Rejected by his first, very practical choice for a wife, he embarks on a friendship with her sister, Lucy Durward, who needs his descriptions to compose a series of engravings about major battles.

Old engravings were about necessity: for example, about protecting family and interpersonal relationships.

The flowers used to decorate the porcelain were at first copied from contemporary natural history books or engravings, but by about 1750 they were being studied from nature and appeared less stiff in presentation.

I've heard plenty of jokes about impulsive engravings of a beloved's name, resolved with expensive cover-up work once the relationship has ended.

What is particularly important about this work, Mr. Heintz said, is that it influenced masters like Michelangelo, when he created two figures in his "Battle of the Centaurs," a marble relief in Florence, and Pollaiuolo, who drew on it for one of the fallen figures in his engraving "Battle of the Nudes," from about 1490-92.

Gesner never completed a similarly comprehensive survey of plant life, but his notes and about 1,500 wood engravings of plants and their important flowers and seeds were used by other authors for two centuries after his death.

In 2000, another amateur archaeologist discovered a warren of caves with about 100 prehistoric engravings, including a drawing of a 12-foot-long bison and female silhouettes, on the property of a British couple in Cussac in the Dordogne.

"We got matching tattoos!" said Turner about the skin engravings she and fellow "Game of Thrones" actress Maisie Williams had done a few days before the Emmys.

Engravings made by Israël Silvestre in about 1650 and a plan from about 1700 show that the Hôtel de la Reine possessed a central wing, a courtyard, and gardens.