#WoodcutWednesday

Woodcuts from early printed books, posted on Twitter every Wednesday from 2012, with a caption apiece.

Getting closer to an early modern Porg. @GallicaBnF

Image from: Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Sad Porg. Early modern happy Porg. #WoodcutWednesday Peacham. Minerva Britanna. 1612.

This is the future liberals want.

Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 6452)

Virgil Solis' Semele from his series for Ovid's Metamorphoses. ca. 1570

Cleaning up my bookshelf and reminded of that time my #WoodcutWednesday was acknowledged in print. Hope to get back to it when on parental leave between poopy diapers and short naps. Expect sleepless lunacy.

Too late for #WoodcutWednesday, but I scored my first Whore of Babylon cut. 1541 by Regnault

Bought my first Foxe’ Book of Martyrs woodcut.

Seventeenth century

“And that, son, is why we are a dog family.” Reynard the Fox.

From: Edward Reynolds, The shieldes of the earth A sermon preached before the reverend judges…
Printed: 1636
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 20932)

Seventeenth century

Smash the patriarchy. …Or, maybe, #GnoshThePatriarchy?

From: Edward Reynolds, The shieldes of the earth A sermon preached before the reverend judges…
Printed: 1636
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 20932)

Had no idea that #WoodcutWednesday had such a life over on Instagram. Glad people are still keeping it alive.

All I do is shitpost.

New woodcut acquisition. Full page woodcut from the 1558 edition of Orlando Furioso.

It has some great details.

But these mannerist borders are just amazing.

I made a thing.

Woodcuts do it better.

We need to find woodcut equivalents for ALL THE MEMES.

Only a matter of time that this look comes back in style and my life can be complete.

Woodcut Wednesday, 21 February 2020

I can’t pass up #ShipOfFools woodcuts when they come up. Drunk fools from a 1610 Dutch edition.

Seventeenth century

Interviewer: Where do you see yourself in five years? Me: Minerva Britanna. London, 1612.

From: Henry Peacham, Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises furnished, and adorned with…
Printed: 1612
Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 19511)

My contribution to #WoodcutWednesday this week. A new Mandalorian print, #ThisIsTheWay.

Had to do it.

Image from: Early English Books Online (STC 20923)

Woodcut Wednesday, 2 July 2020