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

13yrs ago

Connected records

Night on a Dutch Canal

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Patterson, Margaret Jordan

Death the Mourner

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sleigh, Bernard
Draughtsman: Strang, William (After)

Stormbeaten Cypres (sic) Trees

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Rice, William Seltzer

Double Trouble

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bosman, Richard
Publisher: Brooke Alexander, Editions Inc.

Greetings from the House of Weyhe

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cook, Howard Norton

The New Yorker

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cook, Howard Norton

Death and the Artist

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sleigh, Bernard
Draughtsman: Strang, William (After)

Death and the Dancers

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sleigh, Bernard
Draughtsman: Strang, William (After)

Piccolo Marina, Capri

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Patterson, Margaret Jordan

The Blue Bird

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Kent, Rockwell
Publisher: Weyhe Gallery

Death and the Robber

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sleigh, Bernard
Draughtsman: Strang, William (After)

Death and the Husbandman

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Bryden, Robert
Draughtsman: Strang, William (After)

Death the Lover

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sleigh, Bernard
Draughtsman: Strang, William (After)

Death the Leech

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Sleigh, Bernard
Draughtsman: Strang, William (After)

Henry VIII in council

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Franck, Hans

St Jerome in penitence in the wilderness

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Baldung, Hans (Hans Baldung Grien)
Draughtsman: Brosamer, Hans (Formerly attributed)

The Dukes and Duchesses of Holland: three Knights, Geoffrey the Humpback and Theodoric V

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Cornelisz. van Oostsanen, Jacob

The Last Judgement

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Baldung, Hans (Hans Baldung Grien)
Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht (Formerly attributed)

A Persian priest

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lorichs, Melchior

The Adoration of the Shepherds (right half)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Lucius, Jakob
Printmaker: Master of the Adoration of the Shepherds (Formerly attributed)

An image of Print

Siege of Griechisch Weissenburg

Maker(s)

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

St Arnolph

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht (After)

Johannes Paumgartner, Imperial Counsellor.

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Burgkmair, Hans, the elder
Blockcutter: Negker, Jost de

A bust-length man wearing an earring on top of an unidentified coat-of-arms; with with an ivy leaf, a bust-length man in profile to left, and half an eagle in the escutcheon; festoons in upper corners

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printmaker: Baldung, Hans (Hans Baldung Grien) (Possibly)
Printmaker: Altdorfer, Albrecht (Formerly attributed)

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