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    Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing...
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    images are also called "engravings". Engraving is one of the oldest and most important techniques in printmaking. Wood engravings, a form of relief printing...
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    The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist. Its first documented appearance is in the book L'atmosphère : météorologie populaire...
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    material at a time. An engraving burin is used predominantly by intaglio engravers, but also by relief printmakers in making wood engravings. Usually an engraver...
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    Woodcut (redirect from White-line engraving)
    the ink to produce the print. The block is cut along the wood grain (unlike wood engraving, where the block is cut in the end-grain). The surface is...
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  • Gwen Raverat (category English wood engravers)
    her first wood engravings to appear in a book was "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" in The Open Window (1911), which also featured a wood engraving by Noel Rooke...
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    founder-members being Eric Gill. Membership is restricted to artists who use wood engraving, as distinct from the separate discipline of woodcut. The Society also...
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    that time such as wood engraving, copper engraving and later lithography. Confusingly, the printmaking technique used in steel engravings is, after the earliest...
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    Tirzah Garwood (category English wood engravers)
    Reeves Fawkes, Oliver Senior and, as a wood engraver, Eric Ravilious. Her father recorded the date of her first engraving, 24 November 1926, in his diary. Garwood...
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    from 1873 until 1892 on art and wood engraving. He introduced what later became known as the "Pitman School of Wood Carving", which provided for the...
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    Thomas Bewick (category English wood engravers)
    English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for...
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    Line engraving is a term for engraved images printed on paper to be used as prints or illustrations. The term is mainly used in connection with 18th-...
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    for engraving, etching and related intaglio printing techniques; stone, aluminum, or polymer for lithography; blocks of wood for woodcuts and wood engravings;...
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    whose haggard cheek rests on the woolsack for pillow. It was in work for the wood-engravers that Leech was most prolific and individual. Among the earlier...
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    Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 28: 379–387. JSTOR 44140459. Wood, Sir Evelyn (1908), The revolt in Hindustan 1857–59, archived from the original...
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    38 wood engravings, Fournier et Perrotin, Paris, 1835 (100 wood engravings in 1837 edition) Fables de La Fontaine (La Fontaine 's Fables), 258 wood engravings...
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    and Symbolist movements. He was also an influential practitioner of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. While only moderately successful during his...
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    1857. Many of the highly realistic prints published in the medium of wood-engraving were actually made from photographs (through intermediary drawings)...
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    Charles Goldhamer. In the early 1930s, Hyde took up wood engraving, and other forms of block engraving, his work often appearing as illustrations or cover...
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  • Dragon (Dutch: Draak) is a wood engraving print created by Dutch artist M. C. Escher in April 1952, depicting a folded paper dragon perched on a pile of...
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    R. John Beedham (category English wood engravers)
    (1879–1975) was a British wood-engraver. He occupies a unique position in the history of twentieth-century wood-engraving because, being a formschneider...
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  • artist and novelist, known for his series of wordless novels using wood engraving, and his illustrations for juvenile and adult books. His wordless novels...
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  • Angie Lewin (born 1963) is a British printmaker working in linocut, wood engraving, lithography and screen printing. Lewin was born in Cheshire in 1963...
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  • Stars is a wood engraving print created by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher in 1948, depicting two chameleons in a polyhedral cage floating through space...
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    waiting on a wooden fence. Charles Maurand's 1878 wood-engraving Tiburce de Mare's 1879 engraving Schenck's c.1885 painting L'Orphelin, Musée d'Orsay...
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  • A 19th-century wood engraving of the capture of Nat Turner, whose body, Woodard argues, is continuously consumed, both literally and metaphorically....
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    variations. This includes four golden corners on the wooden box, the wood engraving of the Hotel Sacher Wien as well as "Das Original" and "Hotel Sacher...
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    Gustave Doré (category French wood engravers)
    caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible...
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  • scraperboard became a popular medium for reproduction replacing wood engraving, metal engraving, and linocut. It allowed for a fine line appearance that could...
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  • Barry Moser (category American wood engravers)
    specializing in wood engravings, and an illustrator of numerous works of literature. He is also the owner and operator of the Pennyroyal Press, an engraving and small...
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