Wood Cut Collection (#2)

Traditional preacher vs radical
Woodcut from a 17th century tract, " A Glasse for the Times, by which according to the Scriptures, you may clearly behold the true Ministers of Christ

John Skelton / Woodcut / Flo
JOHN SKELTON English poet and clergyman, known for his caustic satire

Crucifixion Woodcut
Jesuss cross is prepared while his relatives mourn - illustration to Richard Pynsons printing of The Myrrour of the Blessyd Life of Jhesu Christ

Classroom / C16 / Woodcut
A classroom scene

Elizabeth I Deer Hunt
Queen Elizabeth I at a deer hunt. As a keen devotee of the sport, she hunted regularly until she was sixty-seven years old

Eel Seller / Woodcut
A woman balances a basket on her head, full of large silver eels for sale

C17 Loom / Woodcut / Colour
A weaver at his loom

C17 Ploughing / Woodcut
A farmer ploughing a field with oxen

C17 Lace Making / Woodcut
Two ladies making lace - the older woman instructing the younger

Fall of meteorites at Hatford, Berkshire, UK
When meteorites fall at Hatford, Berkshire, Mistress Greene, a witness, has one dug up, though one of the diggers swoons in terror

Father Smoking a Pipe
Family alarmed by sight of father smoking a pipe

Aesop
AESOP (620 - 560 BC) Greek writer of fables as depicted by an anonymous medieval woodcut artist

Savonarola / Anon Woodcut
GIROLAMO MARIA FRANCESCO SAVONAROLA Italian reformer, preaching to a large congregation

Llull / Ramon / Woodcut 1522
RAMON LLULL or RAYMOND LULLY Catalan mystic, philosopher, poet and missionary

St George / 13C Woodcut
SAINT GEORGE On horseback, slaying the dragon, while the princess prays in the background

Cranach / Miniature Self
LUCAS CRANACH German painter, engraver and woodcut designer

St Christopher / Woodcut
SAINT CHRISTOPHER Carrying Christ across the river

Flesh & Bowels / Woodcut
A diagram to show the flesh and the bowels from two angles

John Churchill / Woodcut
JOHN CHURCHILL 1ST DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH An early 19th century French satire of the English military commander

Cape by Poiret / 1914
In a year when capes were all the rage Paul Poiret creates this theatrical black & red evening cape depicted by the artist in the style of a Japanese woodcut

Food and Drink / Cooking
Woodcut from 1518, showing an interior of a kitchen

Le Morte D arthur
Knights in battle on foot and horseback watched by a king and queen from the battlements of a city

C17 Brush Maker / Woodcut
A brush maker at work

C17 Tailor / Woodcut
A pair of tailors at work : one, who wears a wig, stands at a table with shears to cut cloth, while his assistant sits stitching

C17 Wheelwright / Woodcut
A wheelwright wields a massive mallet to hammer the spokes into a wooden carriage wheel

C17 Butcher / Woodcut / 45
A shop keeper - butcher or poulterer - brandishes a cleaver as he slices a joint into cutlets or whatever

C17 Porter / Woodcut / 37
A porter staggers along a country road, bowed down beneath the weight of his bags

C17 Shoemaker / Woodcut
A shoe maker sitting at his workbench files the wooden sole of shoe

C17 Basketmaking / Woodcut
A basket maker at work on a nearly completed basket

C17 Stone Worker / Woodcut
A stoneworker working with a hammer and chisel

C17 Sculptor / Woodcut / 23
A sculptor gives the finishing touches to an ecclesiastical figure for a church

C17 Apothcaries / Woodcut
Apothecaries preparing medicines, pounding the ingredients with pestles in a mortar

C17 Coachman / Woodcut / 4
A coachman guides his two- horse team along a country road

C17 Metalworker / Woodcut
A metalworker sits on a trestle and uses his hammer on a metal item softened by heating on that nearby stove

Erasmus / Cognatus / 1553
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Dutch humanist with his colleague Gilbertus Cognatus

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