Engraving Coloring Pages for Adults

Engraving is an artistic technique with many variants : burin, drypoint, etc ...
The first evidence for humans engraving patterns is a chiselled shell, dating back between 540,000 and 430,000 years, from Trinil, in Java, Indonesia, where the first Homo Erectus was discovered (Source : Wikipedia)

We have selected different kind of engravings (different eras, themes, artists...), retaining only the woks with enough details to make good difficult coloring pages.
We've just accentuated the contrast a bit ... It's a true journey into the history of art ...

We hope these original coloring pages created from engravings will please you !

Coloring page from an engraving from 16th century representing the rivers coming to console Peneus after the rape of his daughter by Apollo, her death and her metamorphosis into a laurel (Story of Apollo and Daphne)

Engraving by Ambrosius Holbein for a 1518 edition of Thomas More's Utopia book. The lower left corner shows the traveler Raphael Hythlodeus describing the island.

Engraving from 1620 ! Perfect if you like knights

Pages middle ages engraving

Drawing by Edward Burne Jones from the work of Geoffrey Chaucer Hammersmith (1896)

Flower girl engraving (1868)

Engraving by Domenico Cunego (1771)

"Gentilhomme", engraving by an anonymous artist, around 1465

The woman of Apocalyps, engraving by Albrecht Dürer, around 1497

Annibale Carracci Introduces Painting to Apollo and Minerva, Engraving by Pietro Aquila, 1674

Luxuria, engraving by Pieter Bruegel, 1558

Man band, Engraving to color

Holy conversation, Engraving by Jacopo de Barbari, around 1509

Allegory of geography, engraving by Giovan Battista

The chariot of the dawn, engraving by Francesco Rosaspina, 19th century