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Annie Waterhouse
A. N. Waterhouse, also known as Annie Newman Waterhouse ( 1814 – 24 October 1896) was an English illustrator, woodcutter, Engraving, engraver, and Teaching, teacher. She is best known for her illustrations in working with Joseph Wilson Lowry on Samuel Pickworth Woodward's ''A Manual of the Mollusca'', which was published in three parts. The first part of ''A Manual of the Mollusca'' was published in 1851, and it was one of the most notable works on Mollusks that existed at that time. She was also a professor at Marlborough House, and taught classes on wood engraving for ladies only. Early life Annie Newman Waterhouse was born to Mary Newman and James Edward Waterhouse. She had three siblings, George Robert Waterhouse, Mary Theresa Waterhouse, and Frederick George Waterhouse. Both of her brothers were also involved in natural history and zoology. Marriage She married James Frazer Redgrave in July 1856, but they had no children. James Frazer Redgrave was a clerk in the Commis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodcut
Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that the artist cuts away carry no ink, while characters or images at surface level carry the ink to produce the print. The block is cut along the wood grain (unlike wood engraving, where the block is cut in the end-grain). The surface is covered with ink by rolling over the surface with an ink-covered roller (brayer), leaving ink upon the flat surface but not in the non-printing areas. Multiple colors can be printed by keying the paper to a frame around the woodblocks (using a different block for each color). The art of carving the woodcut can be called "xylography", but this is rarely used in English for images alone, although that and "xylographic" are used in connection with block books, which are small books containing text and images in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
