On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. Many at the time believed it was the end of the world, leading Adolf Vollmy to create a woodcut inspired by the event.
On November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was possible to see up to 100,000 meteors crossing the sky every hour. At the time, many thought it was the end of the world, so much so that it inspired this woodcut by Adolf Vollmy.
Cats are everywhere in the wonderful woodcut prints of 19th century Japan: sometimes standing in for human characters during periods of censorship, often lovingly depicted just as they are, and sometimes subject to fantastical and mythic transformations.
No21. In Sept 1962 the Gill family opened the #Arran Gallery in Whiting Bay. Bet and other Glasgow artists showed there. Steve Gill designed the stationery for Bet’s New Charing Cross Gallery in the 1960s incorporating abstract woodcut designs. Image: Glasgow University Archives
by Workman in 1990? Yes, these guys right here were the original Aziraphale and Crowley. His method of illustration is always color woodcut - simple, in his self imposed limit of four colors, but complex in the planning and execution of the narrative images.
Rhinocerus. Visited Lisbon in 1515, died en route to Italy, Dürer never saw it, but his fabulous woodcut made it famous for centuries. Pretty good going!