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Wood engraving, or xylography, is a common relief printing method that began to be used towards the end of the 18th century. Century by Thomas Bewick from the woodcut was developed.
Templates of drawings, pictures or photographs are transferred to a wooden panel cut across the grain with a wooden burin instead of a knife, processed and then printed on paper. Since these wood engravings are printed directly from the wood block without any photomechanical reproduction processes, they are original graphics!
Especially in the period between 1850 and 1900 they were used in books and magazines of the 19th and 19th centuries. century illustration purposes. This also explains why wood engravings were almost always printed together with text contributions and often have text on the back. Wood engravings almost always come from print media (newspapers, illustrated magazines or books) from the 19th century. century.
Wood engraving, a printmaking technique in which a print is made from a design incised on the transverse section, or end, of a hardwood block. The technique was developed in England in the last half of the 18th century. In 19th-century France and Germany, it became the most general means of illustrating books, magazines, and even newspapers. (Wikipedia)
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Muhammad Tawfiq Pasha (Arabic توفيق, DMG Taufīq; Turkish Tevfik Paşa; * 15. November 1852 in Cairo; † 7 January 1892 in Helwan) was Khedive of Egypt from 1879 to 1892. Tawfiq was born in 1852, the eldest son of Ismail Pasha. In February 1879, after the violent overthrow of the government of Nubar Pasha, he briefly assumed the presidency in Egypt in a new cabinet and, after his father was deposed on 26 April 1879, June 1879 the government in Egypt. The nationalist Urabi movement developed in 1881 against the international financial controls imposed on the country by Ismail. This turned against the dominant European influence and the autocratic government of the Khedives. Tawfiq turned to Britain, which occupied Egypt in 1882 and crushed the movement. The country remained occupied even after the movement was crushed. British rule in Egypt was represented by the Consul General, who, as advisor to the Khedive, was the actual ruler of the country. In the same year, rule over Sudan was lost due to the Mahdi uprising. Tawfiq died on April 7 after a short illness. January 1892. His successor was his eldest son Abbas Hilmi (Source: Wikipedia)
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