Wood engraving

Scope note

A relief process in which the design is cut into and printed from the grain end of a wood block; distinct from "woodcut (process)," which is a relief process using the plank side of a wood block.

This term has 4,766 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053303

Broader Terms used

<relief printmaking processes>

Narrower Terms used

chiaroscuro wood engraving

Term used for

engraving, wood
wood-engraving
xylography

Created

13yrs ago

Connected records

Letters from Cambridge 1939-1944 by A.S.F. Gow

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman - Dust jacket

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

London by Eteen Eiler Rasmussen

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Collected Edition of Elizabeth Bowen's Novels - The Death of the Heart

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Calling for a Spade

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

The Orchestra in England

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

The Red Leaf

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Metal printing block (electrotyped?) for 'The Kissing Bough'

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Hogarth painting the stairway at St. Bartholomew's Hospital

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raverat, Gwendolen

Engraved wood block for Cow Parsley

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mackley, George

Mill Lane, Cambridge

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raverat, Gwendolen
Printer: Crutchley, Brooke

Mill Lane, Cambridge

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raverat, Gwendolen

Engraved woodblock for 'Piddock Architecture'

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Poole, Monica

Cranford

Maker(s)

Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
Illustrator: Hassall, Joan
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd.

An image of Print

February

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Ravilious, Eric William
Publisher: Lanston Monotype Corporation Limited

An image of Print

Mother and Child

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Gill, Eric
Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press

An image of Print

Kenneth and Lena Graeme, in 'The Trial Sermon'

Maker(s)

Designer: Whistler, James Abbott McNeill
Printmaker: Dalziel family

Nude Boy (Pyramus Asleep)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Daviel, Léon
Draughtsman: John, Augustus Edwin (After)

The Labourers in the Vineyard

Maker(s)

Designer: Millais, John Everett
Printmaker: Dalziel family
Publisher: Strahan & Co.

The Parable of the Virgins

Maker(s)

Designer: Millais, John Everett
Printmaker: Dalziel family
Publisher: Strahan & Co.

The Unmerciful Servant

Maker(s)

Designer: Millais, John Everett
Printmaker: Dalziel family
Publisher: Strahan & Co.

A Quarrel

Maker(s)

Designer: Walker, Frederick
Printmaker: Swain, Joseph

Baptism

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raverat, Gwendolen
Draughtsman: Raverat, Jacques Pierre

Baptism

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raverat, Gwendolen
Draughtsman: Raverat, Jacques Pierre

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