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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iconodule, post: 10926209, member: 91417&quot;]I assumed this was a tinted (hand-tinted, as Ghopper says) engraving (as the online sources indicate.)&nbsp; Probably not a woodcut.&nbsp; (I assumed that was an error.)&nbsp; Probably need a closeup detail to be sure, but woodcuts do not allow the same detail as engravings or etchings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Woodcuts are relief prints. (The parts that do not print are cut away from a wooden block. The raised surfaces are inked and printed, requiring a wider, wooden base for each line.)&nbsp; Engravings are intaglio prints. (Incised grooves in a metal plate are inked, the surface is wiped, and the image is printed with a roller press that squeezes the paper into the grooves.)&nbsp; Engravers use a tool (burin) to remove the metal (usually copper or zinc), leaving fine lines/grooves incised in the metal.&nbsp; (Etchings use acid to &quot;bite&quot; lines in the metal plate.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Example:&nbsp; Compare Albrecht Dürer’s “Resurrection” woodcut from his <i>Large Passion (<a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-606" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-606" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-606</a> )</i> with his engraving of the small subject in his <i>Engraved Passion</i>&nbsp; (<a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_E-2-57" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_E-2-57" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_E-2-57</a> ).&nbsp; Dürer’s woodcuts are as detailed as they come.&nbsp; Since he created both woodcuts and engravings, they are a good comparison for the differences in the media.&nbsp; I am not posting these images on Antiquers because the size restrictions would not allow viewers to enlarge the images to see the differences in line.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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