Wood you believe it?
Sep 16, 2020
3 minutes
BRITAIN has invented numerous sports—tennis, cricket, tossing the caber —but can only claim to have come up with one art form: wood engraving. It is the perfect medium for the times we are living through, creating images that are generally small, precise and detailed—just the thing for careful study and contemplation during lockdown.
Thomas Bewick, the 18th-century Northumbrian engraver, devised the technique, using metal engraving tools to cut finely prepared boxwood across the grain to produce
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