45th station: Shōno (Travelers surprised by sudden rain), 庄野, #Shōno, from The Fifty-Three Stations of the #Tōkaidō (東海道五十三次, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi), a series of #Ukiyoe (#Japanese #WoodcutPrints) by Utagawa #Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832. Seen in the #Museum of #EastAsian #Art #Cologne.
#JapaneseArt #UtagawaHiroshige

For a special limited edition of "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark#", #IanMortimer was commissioned by Macmillan Publishers to print #HenryHoliday's illustration to #LewisCarroll's tragicomedy from the original wood-engraved blocks. The Holiday illustrations in all 19th-century editions were printed from #electrotypes (http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/tech1.html).

See also: https://snrk.de/snark-too-dark/

#woodcut #woodprint #woodcutprint ##woodcutprints

Image: Segment from screenshot of Ian Mortimer's http://www.imimprimit.com/the-hunting-of-the-snark.htm

Emperor Jones, 1926, Aaron Douglas
#woodcutprints #aarondouglas #Harlemrenaissance #art #blackartist #emperorjones #swangallery

“Friday Night”
‘Autumn Midnight’, Eric Gill, 1923, Wood engraving on paper. Frontispiece for Frances Cornford, ‘Autumn Midnight’, The Poetry Bookshop. #woodcutprints #woodengraving #print #graphicdesign #fineart