Wood engraving
Wood engraving is a printmaking and letterpress printing technique, in which an artist works an image or matrix of images into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure. By contrast, ordinary engraving, like etching, uses a metal plate for the matrix, and is printed by the intaglio method, where the ink fills the valleys, the removed areas. As a result, wood engravings deteriorate less quickly than copper-plate engravings, and have a distinctive white-on-black character.
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Wood engraving
Wood engraving is a printmaking and letterpress printing technique, in which an artist works an image or matrix of images into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure. By contrast, ordinary engraving, like etching, uses a metal plate for the matrix, and is printed by the intaglio method, where the ink fills the valleys, the removed areas. As a result, wood engravings deteriorate less quickly than copper-plate engravings, and have a distinctive white-on-black character.
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De houtgravure is een procedé ...... eds een nieuwe drukgang nodig.
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Der Holzstich (begrifflich etw ...... – und erfand so den Holzstich.
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El grabado en madera es una té ...... de grises con gran "eclosión".
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La xylogravure désigne l'actio ...... ans le bois pour les affiches.
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Wood engraving is a printmakin ...... ndon and other British venues.
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A dark wooden block at an angle
A dark wooden block from above
A print made from the block
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Print made with the block. The ...... t between the man and the dog.
The block shown from above. No ...... t next to the figure of a man.
This original engraved wood bl ...... er with text on a letterpress.
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De houtgravure is een procedé ...... ende blokken samen te klemmen.
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Der Holzstich (begrifflich etw ...... – und erfand so den Holzstich.
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El grabado en madera es una té ...... de grises con gran "eclosión".
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La xylogravure désigne l'actio ...... avé en creux dans le bois, qui
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Wood engraving is a printmakin ...... tive white-on-black character.
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Grabado en madera
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Gravure sur bois
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Holzstich
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Houtgravure
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Wood engraving
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