Woodcut

Scope note

A relief process in which the design is cut into and printed from the plank side of a wood block; distinct from "wood engraving (process)," which is a relief process using the grain end of a wood block.

This term has 2,851 records attributed within our system.

Term type

AAT
Technique

Getty AAT term number

300053296

Broader Terms used

<relief printmaking processes>

Narrower Terms used

chiaroscuro woodcut
colour woodcuts

Term used for

printing, wood block
printing, woodcut
wood block printing
wood-block printing

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

Woman with two attendants walking in the rain

Maker(s)

Designer: Eishi, Hosoda (After)

Woman with two attendants walking in the rain

Maker(s)

Designer: Eishi, Hosoda (After)

Woman with two attendants walking in the rain

Maker(s)

Designer: Eishi, Hosoda (After)

Town seen from under a bridge

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Nieuwenkamp, Wynand Otto Jan

Throwing plates from Asukayama

Maker(s)

Designer: Hokuga, Karyôsai

Fuji

Maker(s)

Artist: Unknown
Designer: Hokkei, Totoya (After)

Suzume Odori, Sparrow-dancers

Maker(s)

Designer: Nagahide, Urakusai

New Year episode, three women, one reading, the other two playing itachi-gokko

Maker(s)

Designer: Toyokuni, Utagawa

Two pigeons or doves

Maker(s)

Designer: Gekkô, Ogata

36 Immortal Poets

Maker(s)

Designer: Kuniyasu, Utagawa

36 Immortal Poets

Maker(s)

Designer: Kuniyasu, Utagawa

Street Scene by Night

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Pissarro, Ludovico Rodolphe

Page from Ten Bamboo Studio - Bamboos and chrysanthemums

Page from Ten Bamboo Studio - Plum tree on bank overhanging water

Attique I

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Grammatopoulos, Costas

Street Scene

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Deslignières, André

Sixe idillia : that is, sixe small, or petty poems, or aeglogues

Maker(s)

Author: Theocritus
Translator: Dyer, Edward
Illustrator: Gribble, Vivien
Illustrator: Balston, Thomas
Publisher: Duckworth and Co
Printer: Cloister Press

The accedence of armorie

Maker(s)

Author: Leigh, Gerard
Publisher: Tottell, Richard

An image of Print

Portrait of a man, called Wolfgang Maurer

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Germany and Empress Cunegund holding Bamberg Cathedral

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

An image of Print

Michael Springenklee, Master of Ceremonies in Nuremberg

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Rauch, Matthes

An image of Print

Emperor Maximilian I

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Resch, Wolfgang

An image of Print

Emperor Charles V (as King Charles I of Spain)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Printmaker: Weiditz, Hans, the younger (After)

An image of Print

St Ediltrudis

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Beck, Leonhard
Blockcutter: Seman, Claus

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