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 2,850 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

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

An image of Print

St Goericus

Maker(s)

Blockcutter: Liefrinck, Cornelis I
Printmaker: Beck, Leonhard

The Battle at Nauders/Naples

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Burgkmair, Hans, the elder

An image of Print

The White King learning to fight with the Bohemian shield

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Beck, Leonhard

An image of Print

The White King's skill in armour and with the long pike

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Beck, Leonhard

An image of Print

The White King's skill in halberd fighting

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Beck, Leonhard

An image of Print

The White King learning the art of fencing

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Beck, Leonhard

An image of Print

Assault on a town (Venlo)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Burgkmair, Hans, the elder

An image of Print

The White King conducts a masquerade

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Burgkmair, Hans, the elder

An image of Print

The young White King on horseback shooting a crossbow

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Burgkmair, Hans, the elder

The crucifixion

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Baldung, Hans (Hans Baldung Grien) (Attributed)
Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht (Formerly attributed)

The tree of the Hapsburg genealogy

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

Four peasants standing by a gate

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Holtzmann, Carl Friedrich
Draughtsman: Dietrich, Christian Wilhelm Ernst (After)

Interlaced Cord Pattern with Oblong Shield

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Dürer, Albrecht

An image of Print

Das Consili zu Gmunden mit den vil seltzamen Potschafften

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Burgkmair, Hans, the elder

Sheet of uncut, uncoloured woodcut playing cards, German, 17th century

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown
Publisher: Hauck, Heinrich

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