A Brief History of Wood-engraving From Its Invention

It redounds greatly to the glory of Thomas Bewick that the important advance in the art of wood-engraving which was due to his talents and his industry did not die with him. He...

We must now retrace our brief history to Germany, where, under the immediate direction and control of such well-known artists as Albrecht Dürer of Nürnberg (_b._ 1471, d. 1528)...

Historians tell us that in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the cities of the Netherlands were the most populous and the richest in all Western Europe. Bruges, Ghent, Lièg...

Ars Moriendi.--Of all the block books known to us, this bears the palm for artistic merit. It is probable that the 'Ars Moriendi' is of later date than the block books already d...

Although at this time Germany took the lead of all European countries so far as the illustrations of printed books are concerned, the transition from German to Italian art is li...

Many volumes have been written on the subject of Wood-Engraving, especially in Germany, Holland, and Belgium, where the art first flourished; as well as in Italy, France, and En...

In the first half of the fifteenth century, before the invention of printing by means of movable type, many books were produced in which the woodcuts and the text were engraved...

In the year 1775, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts offered a series of small money premiums for the best engravings on wood. These prizes were won by Thomas Hodgson, Wi...

In the portfolios of collectors of works of art of the sixteenth century we frequently meet with very interesting examples of printing in _chiaro-oscuro_, as it was called, by m...

Before we begin our brief history of wood-engraving in France it will be well to speak of the technical part of the new art in the fifteenth century. We have already stated that...

In the early years of the sixteenth century, the printers of Florence issued many cheap popular books, chiefly _Rappresentazioni_, i.e. Plays, sacred or secular. These plays are...

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries many of the finest churches in England were built by architects so celebrated that some of them were sent for to erect similar building...

Hans Holbein, who first saw the light at Augsburg in the year 1497, was the greatest artist ever born in Germany, and as he passed half of his artistic life in England we may cl...

Bewick's Successors--John Bewick (his Brother)--_Looking-glass for the Mind_--_Goldsmith's Poems_--_Somerville's Chase_--Robert Johnson--Charlton Nesbit--Robert Elliot R. Bewick...

Wood-Engraving in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in Italy and England--Printing in Chiaro-oscuro in Venice--Printing in Colour in Germany--_Habiti Antichi e Moderni_ by...

On Pictures of Saints--The print of _The Virgin with the Holy Child in her Lap_ in the Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique--On the print of _St. Christopher_ in the Spencer Library...

On Wood-Engraving in France in the Fifteenth Century-- Engraving on Metal Blocks--'Books of Hours'--Famous French Publishers: Pierre Le Rouge, Simon Vostre, Antoine Verard, Thie...