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unusual facts about wood cut



Thomas Bewick

This is due both to his skill and to the method, which unlike the wood cut technique of his predecessors, carves against the grain, in hard box wood, using fine tools normally favoured by metal engravers.


see also

Cecilia Lucy Brightwell

After Dürer: Ecce Homo (from etching); Ecce Homo (from wood-cut).