This engraving, of a flying fish, almost changed the course of history. It is one of a set from John Ray's and Francis Willughby's book “Historia Piscium”, published in 1686 by the Royal ...

Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer’s engraving 'Melencolia I' is five hundred years old this year. This is a complex, symbol-filled image that has, arguably, shaped how we visualise ...

A 400-year-old botany book contains what could be the ... of The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. The 1,484 page book, published in 1598, is described as the largest single-volume work ...

One Of The Oldest Engravings In Eurasia This engraving is one of the oldest hand-etched pictures found in Western Eurasia. Engraving is a practice of decorating a hard and flat surface by cutting ...