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Traditional preacher vs radicalWoodcut 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 / FloJOHN SKELTON English poet and clergyman, known for his caustic satire
Crucifixion WoodcutJesuss cross is prepared while his relatives mourn - illustration to Richard Pynsons printing of The Myrrour of the Blessyd Life of Jhesu Christ
Classroom / C16 / WoodcutA classroom scene
Elizabeth I Deer HuntQueen 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 / WoodcutA woman balances a basket on her head, full of large silver eels for sale
C17 Loom / Woodcut / ColourA weaver at his loom
C17 Ploughing / WoodcutA farmer ploughing a field with oxen
C17 Lace Making / WoodcutTwo ladies making lace - the older woman instructing the younger
Fall of meteorites at Hatford, Berkshire, UKWhen meteorites fall at Hatford, Berkshire, Mistress Greene, a witness, has one dug up, though one of the diggers swoons in terror
Father Smoking a PipeFamily alarmed by sight of father smoking a pipe
AesopAESOP (620 - 560 BC) Greek writer of fables as depicted by an anonymous medieval woodcut artist
Savonarola / Anon WoodcutGIROLAMO MARIA FRANCESCO SAVONAROLA Italian reformer, preaching to a large congregation
Llull / Ramon / Woodcut 1522RAMON LLULL or RAYMOND LULLY Catalan mystic, philosopher, poet and missionary
St George / 13C WoodcutSAINT GEORGE On horseback, slaying the dragon, while the princess prays in the background
Cranach / Miniature SelfLUCAS CRANACH German painter, engraver and woodcut designer
St Christopher / WoodcutSAINT CHRISTOPHER Carrying Christ across the river
Flesh & Bowels / WoodcutA diagram to show the flesh and the bowels from two angles
John Churchill / WoodcutJOHN CHURCHILL 1ST DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH An early 19th century French satire of the English military commander
Cape by Poiret / 1914In 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 / CookingWoodcut from 1518, showing an interior of a kitchen
Le Morte D arthurKnights in battle on foot and horseback watched by a king and queen from the battlements of a city
C17 Brush Maker / WoodcutA brush maker at work
C17 Tailor / WoodcutA 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 / WoodcutA wheelwright wields a massive mallet to hammer the spokes into a wooden carriage wheel
C17 Butcher / Woodcut / 45A shop keeper - butcher or poulterer - brandishes a cleaver as he slices a joint into cutlets or whatever
C17 Porter / Woodcut / 37A porter staggers along a country road, bowed down beneath the weight of his bags
C17 Shoemaker / WoodcutA shoe maker sitting at his workbench files the wooden sole of shoe
C17 Basketmaking / WoodcutA basket maker at work on a nearly completed basket
C17 Stone Worker / WoodcutA stoneworker working with a hammer and chisel
C17 Sculptor / Woodcut / 23A sculptor gives the finishing touches to an ecclesiastical figure for a church
C17 Apothcaries / WoodcutApothecaries preparing medicines, pounding the ingredients with pestles in a mortar
C17 Coachman / Woodcut / 4A coachman guides his two- horse team along a country road
C17 Metalworker / WoodcutA metalworker sits on a trestle and uses his hammer on a metal item softened by heating on that nearby stove
Erasmus / Cognatus / 1553DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Dutch humanist with his colleague Gilbertus Cognatus