A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and PracticalChatto, William Andrew
History
A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical
Chatto, William Andrew
Wood-engraving
St James, from the same 384
Death on the Pale Horse, from the same 384
Cain killing Abel, from Coverdale’s Translation of the Old
and New Testament, 1535 386
Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac, from the same 387
The Two Spies, from the same 387
St. Matthew, from the same 388
St. John the Baptist, from the same 388
St. Paul writing, from the same 388
Frontispiece to Marcolini’s Sorti, Venice, 1540, by Joseph
Porta Garfagninus, after a Study by Raffaele for the
School of Athens 390
Punitione, from the same work 392
Matrimony, from the same 392
Cards, from the same 393
Truth saved by Time, from the same 393
The Labour of Alcmena, from Dolce’s Transformationi, Venice,
1553 394
Monogram, from Palatino’s Treatise on Writing, Rome, 1561 396
Hieroglyphic Sonnet, from the same work 396
Portraits of Petrarch and Laura, from Petrarch’s Sonetti,
Lyons, 1547 400
Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise, from Quadrins
Historiques de la Bible, Lyons, 1550-1560 401
Christ tempted by Satan, from Figures du Nouveau Testament,
Lyons, 1553-1570 402
Briefmaler, from a book of Trades and Professions,
Frankfort, 1564-1574 410
Formschneider, from the same 411
The Goose Tree, from Sebastian Munster’s Cosmography, Basle,
1550-1554 414
William Tell about to shoot at the apple on his son’s head,
from the same 416
Portrait of Dr. William Cuningham, from his Cosmographical
Glass, London, 1559 424
Four initial letters, from the same work 425, 426, 427
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, from the Books of Christian
Prayers printed by John Daye, 1569 428
Large initial letter, from Fox’s Acts and Monuments, 1576 429
Initial letter, from a work printed by Giolito at Venice,
about 1550 430
Two Cats, from an edition of Dante, printed at Venice, 1578 431
Emblem of Water, from a chiaro-scuro by Henry Goltzius,
about 1590 433
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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