When you hold a deck of cards, you're holding a significant stage in the history of the book. Woodcuts made it possible to reproduce detailed desig ...

Tako to Ama (or, Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife) is a beautiful woodcut illustration from 1814 by Katsushika Hokusai and the ancestor of Japanese tentacle porn. (Want to see the #NSFW original ...

Woodcut tattoo ideas. Skip navigation! ADVERTISEMENT. ... Dating back to the 1400s, you don’t have to go far to find this traditional illustration style ...

click image for close-up Slaves Left to Die is a woodcut illustration from the book, The Boy Travellers on the Congo, published in 1888. Accompanying the illustration is a description of why slave ...

click image for close-up Interior of a Slave Ship, a woodcut illustration from the publication, A History of the Amistad Captives, reveals how hundreds of slaves could be held within a slave ship ...

View Gabriel Max Illustration Zu Wieland's Oberon (Illustration to Wieland's Oberon) 1887 woodcut (1864) By Gabriel Cornelius von Max; woodcut on wove paper; Image Size 10 1/8 x 13 1/2 inches 19 x 22 ...

Woodcut illustration of the 'graet and small cauldron and furnace' from Xingming guizhi (Pointers on Spiritual Nature and Bodily Life) by Yi Zhenren, a Daoist text on internal alchemy published in ...

IN PIC ABOVE: (L) A woodcut illustration (c.1570) from a Latin translation of ‘The Crane Killed by the Crab’; an illustration by Gordon Browne for the story of ‘The Crane and the Crab ...