Woodcut

Scope note

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

This term has 2,831 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053296

Broader Terms used

<relief printmaking processes>

Narrower Terms used

chiaroscuro woodcut
colour woodcuts

Term used for

printing, wood block
printing, woodcut
wood block printing
wood-block printing

Created

12yrs ago

Connected records

The cruell burning of George Marsh, Martyr

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Programme for ‘The Oresteian Trilogy of Aeschyus’

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Raverat, Gwendolen

Christ as shepherd, carrying a lamb on his shoulders

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

St John, seated before a table, an eagle perched on the Gospel

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sallaert, Anthonis

Personal collection of various woodcuts, engravings and facsimiles.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printmaker: Kandel, David (After)

Habitus Popularum

Maker(s)

Designer: Amman, Jost
Printmaker: Weigel, Hans, the elder

Portrait of a Man

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sichem, Christoffel II van
Draughtsman: Goltzius, Hendrik (After)

The Cave of the Eternity

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Goltzius, Hendrik

The Apocalyptic Woman

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht

The Seige of San Sebastian, which was taken by Storm, Aug. 31, 1813

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Batchelar, T.

Surrender of Paris

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Batchelar, T.

An image of Print

Kaspar Gnann

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Custos, Raphael

The Wilhelmite Order

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Beham, Hans Sebald

The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht

Ecce Homo

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht

The Carthusian Order

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Beham, Hans Sebald

Woodcuts

Maker(s)

Illustrator: Bembridge School
Editor: Whitehouse, J. Howard
Printer: Cambridge University Press
Printer: Lewis, Walter

Christ Bearing the Cross

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht

Ecce Homo

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht

Christ before Caiaphas

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht

Christ before Annas

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht

A Celestine Clergyman

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printmaker: Beham, Hans Sebald (After)

The Expulsion from Paradise

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Mommard, Johann
Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht (After)

Inagawa bridge

Maker(s)

Designer: Eisen, Keisai

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