This site may be going away; please consider the Donate link above... or LiberaPay:
This site may be going away; please consider the Donate link above... or LiberaPay:
Galleries: index · 
· 
Some pictures and, where available, text, from Meister der Graphic Herausgegeben von Dr. Hermann Voss—Band XI: Charles Meryon by Goesta Ecke, with 60 illistrations on 56 plates in collotype. Leipzig, 1854
Title: Charles Meryon
Published by: Verlag von Klinghardt ( Biermann
City: Leipzig
Date: 1923
Total items: 3
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: The Grotesque (Le Stryge)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Ecke-Meryon/wm/big/09-gargoyle-q75-152x200.jpg "[picture: The Grotesque (Le Stryge)]")
This etching from 1852 is of a 19th century gargoyle on Nôtre Dame cathedral in Paris. The engraving shows a horned and winged grotesque figure with its tongue sticking out. Strictyl speaking is it not a gargoyle as it does not gargle: as far as i can tell, water does not emerge from its spout. It is overlooking the city of Paris, with elbows resting [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Gargoyle, brighter version]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Ecke-Meryon/wm/big/09-gargoyle-bright-q75-154x200.jpg "[picture: Gargoyle, brighter version]")
This is a version of Meryon’s Gargoyle that has has the surface tone removed to make for better reproduction. Since the artist intended the background to be darkened, this should be printed on tinted or darker [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Gothic Window]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Ecke-Meryon/wm/big/12-gothic-window-hs-yellow-paper-q75-122x200.jpg "[picture: Gothic Window]")
Galleries: index · ·
Note: If you got here from a search engine and don’t see what you were looking for, it might have moved onto a different page within this gallery.
