Pictures from the London season on Drawing Room day

after a drawing by K. Bodmer

Original wood engraving from a magazine from 1879 (no reprint - no copy)




One sheet printed on the reverse.

Stitch size approx. 30 x 51 cm, folded in half.

Condition: paper slightly stained due to age, otherwise good - see scan!



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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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    • 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 i