This article was originally published with the title “ Wood Engraving—Ancient Process ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 20 No. 20 (May 1869), p. 309 doi:10.1038 ...

So originated two schools of engraving on wood: the school of Bewick, whose pupils were distinguished as artists, notably Luke Clennell the painter, and Charlton Nesbitt, whose work however ...

Wood engraving. Copperplate engraving. When Bewick died in 1828, his son Robert took over the business and published two further editions of the Birds in 1832 and 1847, and a large wood engraved ...

After Bewick, wood engraving was seized upon by the visionary artists Samuel Palmer and William Blake: their tradition lives on in works such as the Swedish artist Eva Stockhaus’s Seagulls in the Wind ...

FATHER OF WOOD ENGRAVING. Share full article. Oct ... better Mr. Dobson's appreciation than what he says in his preface as to the quantity of material written in regard to Bewick during the last ...

His minder, and eventual partner, preferred copper engraving, and let Bewick find his way in wood, which wasn’t much in fashion. Bewick found the medium liberating: “In this plebian craft,” Ms. Uglow ...

Cordelia Margaret Gidney, previously Jones, was best known for her talents engraving wood and her children’s literature. Born on April 9, 1936, she studied painting at The Slade School of Fine ...