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A couple in fashionable dress. Woodcut

A brewer pouring beer into a barrel; behind, the operations of brewing. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Date

[1568]

Reference

34958i

Pan-Gu, the primordial giant of Chinese myth, holding the symbol of yin and yang. Woodcut, 1850/1900 (?).

Date

1850-1900

Reference

571157i

The worshippers of Baal beseech their god in vain to ignite their sacrificial altar, but in response to the prayer of Elijah, Yahweh ignites the altar erected to him. Colour etching and woodcut by P.P.A. Robert and N. Le Sueur after Maturino da Firenze.

Date

[between 1729 and 1742]

Reference

2496676i

A cercopithecus (a long-tailed monkey) holding a stick in its right hand. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

Date

1553/1560

Reference

40987i

Lamentation over the dead Christ on the mount of Golgotha. Woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1738, after Rembrandt.

Date

1738

Reference

23215i

The Buddha in lotus positions. Woodcut.

Reference

47121i

A wheelright is working in his workshop. Woodcut.

Three soldiers on horseback: one with a bugle, one with a cutlass, and one with and as a standard. Colour wood block.

Reference

35371i

Martyrdom of Christian saints by being shut up to be bitten by mice or rats, crowded together like locusts, or trampled by horses. Woodcut.

Reference

11044i

The resurrected Christ appears with a flag before the apostles; God spreads his hands above. Woodcut.

Reference

23293i

Nagasaki. Coloured wood cut.

Reference

47268i

King Herod ordering the massacre of the innocents. Woodcut.

Reference

34672i

A man is working with metal at a bench as he talks to another man who holds an item in his hand. Woodcut.

Wolfgang Meurer. Woodcut.

Reference

6498i

Blacksmiths working on an anvil, horse shoes are hanging on a rail in the window.

The dance of death: the creation. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

Reference

29621i

Two men are working on wood at their benches in the workshop. Woodcut.

The birth of the Virgin Mary, Anna receives refreshments from attendants while the midwife gives Mary her first bath. Woodcut after A. Dürer, 1503.

Date

1503

Reference

17321i

One man is cutting cloth with a large pair of scissors as other sew at a bench. Woodcut.

A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.

Date

1553/1560

Reference

40956i

A Chinese warrior with mace in shape of an eagle's talon. Colour woodcut by a Chinese artist.

Reference

582259i

A vignette of a woman inhaling from a small lamp - advertising the 'asthmatic lamp'. Woodcut and letterpress, 1843.

Date

Entered at Stationers' Hall 1843

Reference

16191i

A skeleton encircled with a decorative band. Woodcut.

Reference

33884i

A priest gives a dying man his last rites. Coloured woodcut, 1493.

Date

1493

Reference

33694i