Historical Woodcut Illustrations

A collection of vintage woodcut illustrations depicting historical and mythological scenes, featuring knights, death, and symbolic figures in intricate, detailed styles.

Netherlands, Master of the Virgo inter Virgines, Master of the Delbecq-Schreiber Passion, Master of Delft, Anastasis, Christ's descent into hell, Printed from three blocks. Christ pulls a man, followed by others, out of the gates of hell. Architectural ornamentation to the left and right of the scene., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, engravings, height 105 mm, width 145 mm, Northern Netherlands, unknown, 1480 - 1500, fourth quarter 15th century, first quarter 16th century, paper, papier, woodcut, Southern Netherlands

Pythagoras (6th century BC), right, using counting table, competes against Boethius (Boece) using algorithms for speed at calculation. Behind them hovers the figure of Arithmetic From 'Margarita Philosophica' Basle, 1508. Hand-coloured woodcut.

justice allegories thruth-s friend and thruth woodcut 1st half 16th century private collection,

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. Of misconceptions about God, The Fool walks towards a feeding trough of animals and thinks that the mind of these animals is the one who relies on God's mercy, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

science mathematics calculating with a counting frame and Arabic (Indian) letters woodcut by Florian Ungler 1513,

Portrait of Aesop from the frontispiece to William Caxton's "Fables of Aesop"; Black and White Illustration;

Saint Sebastian 16th century Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella) Italian. Saint Sebastian 207619

'Conrad Celtes Presenting His Book Quatuor Libri Amorum to Maximilian I', 1502 (1906). Artist: Albrecht Durer.

Frieze with children. Artist: Conrad Baur (German, active 1517-32). Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 1 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (4.7 × 20 cm). Date: 1531. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Conrad Baur.

Woodblock engraving depicting the Four Temperaments: Choleric (with lion), Sanguine (with ape), Phlegmatic (with sheep), and Melancholy (with hog). Dated 16th century

Saint Agnes verso. Dated: probably 1460/1480. Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

A joust and a mess with a frost; Triumphal arch of Emperor Maximiliaan I. Two performances above each other, separated by a band with German text in Gothic script. At the top a tournament is depicted: two riders turn to each other with their lances, two soldiers are fighting each other with senior weapons. Below, a messenger, kneeling for a frost, reads a writing. Detail of the triumphal arch of Emperor Maximiliaan I.

Artist: Hans Burgkmair the Elder, German, 1473-1531, Der Geschmeidemaler from Petrarchs Glucksbuch?, ca. 1530, Woodcut, image: 27.9 × 17.7 cm (11 × 6 15/16 in.), Made in Germany, German, 16th century, Works on Paper - Prints

Richard I (1157-99) Coeur de Lion (Lionheart), king of England from 1189, From metrical romance Richard Coeur de Lion printed by Wynkyn de Worde (dc1535), London, 1528, Woodcut showing Richard in armour mounted on caparisoned horse,

A man is working on a bench with a hammer and nails. Woodcut.

Paper making in Germany. Date: circa 1570

ALBRECHT von EYB German humanist scholar, depicted at his writing-desk. Date: 1420 - 1475

The Night Watchman or Bellman of London, decribes the Watchman and Bellman as a person of some activity, 'the child of darkness', a common nightwalker; a man that had no man to wait upon him, but only a dog, one that was disordered person and a midnight would beat at men's doors, bidding them (in mere mockery) to look to their candles, when they themselves were in their dead of sleep. Date: 1608

Copper engraving by Hendrick Goltzius from 1597-1604 depicting the allegory of the dangers of a legal dispute, illustrating symbolic figures and courtroom themes.

Louis XIII of France, 1623. Artist: Unknown

A woodcut engraving depicting a walled garden with gazebo. A detail from the frontispiece of Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy", initially published in 1621. Dated 19th century

A Giant of Golf. Engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe. Black and White Illustration from the Connoisseur, an Illustrated Magazine for Collectors Voll 3 (May-Aug 1902) published in London.

Portrait of Themistocles (524 BC- 459 BC) an Athenian politician and general. Dated 4th Century BC

Woodblock engraving depicting Noah supervising the building of the Ark. In the foreground two men are shaping a beam using adzes. Dated 15th century

Triumph of Patience 16th century Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert Netherlandish. Triumph of Patience 360353

The Tax Collector. Drawing by Albert Coinchon and engraved by Huyot after a woodcut in "Praxis Rerum Civilium", by Joost de Damhouder (1507-1581). Published Antwerp, 1595. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

Woodcut print of an Elizabethan Banquet. Dated 16th Century

Anaximines (active c500 BC) Ancient Greek philosopher. With Thales and Anaximander, one of three great thinkers from Miletus. Considered air basic form of matter. Woodcut from Hartmann Schedel 'Liber chronicarum mundi' (Nuremberg Chronicle) Nuremberg 1493.

Woodcut printer by Lope de Roca Alemany. "Lo Procés de les Olives". The writers portrayed: Mossen Fenollar, Johan Moreno, Narcis Vinyoles, Gaume Gassull, Jerome Bosch y Baltasar Portell.

woodcut from 1520 by Jodocus Badius (1462-1535), also known as Josse Badius a pioneer of the printing industry. Badius hand operated screw press in action. Emblem des Druckers Jodocus Badus Ascensius, 1520

Bookplate of Wilhelm von Zell. Dated: in or after 1500. Medium: woodcut. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

Woodcut engraving depicting a pin seller. Pins were mounted on paper and the vendor would then hawk them in the street calling out "Three rows a penny pins!".

medicine surgery amputation of the lower leg woodcut coloured Nuremberg Germany circa 1530 private collection,

A woodcut engraving depicting a clockmaker. Woodcut by Jost Amman (1539-1591) a Swiss-German artist. Dated 16th century

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. Of serenading in the night, a woman pours out the chamber pot over the musicians, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Copper engraving by Meister BR from the second half of the 15th century depicting a king playing chess, showing figure details and game setting.

Anaximander (c611-546 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher, 1493. Artist: Unknown

Illustration to the mirror of true rhetoric, the fall of Icarus, woodcut by Albrecht Duerer, historical, digitally improved reproduction of an old woodcut Illustration to the mirror of true rhetoric, the fall of Icarus, woodcut by Albrecht Duerer, historical, digitally improved reproduction of an old woodcut

GRABADO DE LA CELESTINA IMPRESO EN BURGOS EN 1499. Author: FERNANDO DE ROJAS (1470-1541). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN. NYMPH CALLISTO. MELIBEA.

Reproduction of print showing Nymphs before Jupiter by Lecturer Francis Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952. Photograph of a woodblock from Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, 1499. Dated between 1915 and 1925

Court scene with lovers and wedding. unknown c. 1500-1525 Tapestry Dimensions: H 10'8" x W 13'4" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Southern Netherlands Weaving Center: unknown Ownership History: French & Co. purchased from The Cleveland Museum of Art, received 1/24/1961; sold to V. Vigo Sternberg 6/17/1963. Inscriptions: Inscription in upper border: NE / FACERET / VINDICTAM / DEPRECAVERUNT m() / FRATRES QUOD / JOSEPH / UMVEN DIDERUNT

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. Of the foolish exchange, the fool who gives away his saddled donkey for a bagpipe, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Thunderbolt or lightning, 1508. Artist: Anon

Fragment of bas-relief of the hotel de Bourgtheroulde, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1842.

The gulon, a symbol of gluttony, overeats and then squeezes itself between two trees to push the food through its system; it can then return to eat again. Date: 1555

Bucolic love, rural simplicity, woodcut from the 16th century, digitally improved reproduction from a publication of the year 1880, Bucolic love, woodcut from the 16th century, digitally improved reproduction from a publication of the year 1880

Woodblock engraving depicting a four-eyed man, a member of a tribe at one time thought to inhabit certain regions of the earth. Dated 15th century

Allegorical composition depicting the different degrees of university teaching. Allegory of the ascent to the spheres of knowledge. Facsimile illustration of a wood engraving from the "Margarita Philosophica", by Gregor Reisch, published in 1503. Sciences & Lettres au Moyen Age et a l'epoque de la Renaissance. Paris, 1877.

The Arc de Triomphe, base of the right central column, woodcut by Albrecht Duerer, historical, digital improved reproduction of an old woodcut

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. Of God's choice of grace. He who waits for something to fall into his lap leans on a weak reed and rides the crab backwards, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Heads demonstrating points of physiognomy from Lavater, Essays on physiognomy, 1797

A woodcut engraving depicting a woman holding a shuttle, and a blacksmith with hawker and tongs. Dated 15th century

Method of drying, preserving and smoking fish from Olaus Magnus Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus 1555 (on hist Scandinavia )

trade fish market fishermen selling draught woodcut by Hans Frank 1516,

Martyrdom of Saint Agatha. Woodcut.

Capital of Musicians from the cloister of the Abbey of St Georges de Boscherville, 12th Century, Saint Martin de Boscherville. Seine Maritime, France, Europe. The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix, 1874

This illustration from the 14th century "Book of Wonders"shows Marco Polo landing in Ormuz , an island off of southern Iran.

Amphion plays his Lyre. Plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenère, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. Gaultier, or Galter, was a French engraver, born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641.

FELIPE HUAMAN POMA DE AYALA. CRONISTA INDIGENA DEL VIRREINATO DEL PERU.1534-1615. ILUSTRACION DE SU OBRA , " NUEVA CRONICA Y BUEN GOBIERNO ". BIBLIOTECA DEL INSTITUTO DE COOPERACION IBEROAMERICANA. MADRID. LIBRO Y QUIPU. SISTEMA MNEMOTECNICO.

Trojan War: King Priam of Troy mourning over the body of his son Hector, 16th century. Artist: Unknown

Tarot card. The Juggler or Mountebank. Parisian Tarot 1500. Tarot pack of 22 cards was used in fortune telling

alchemy allegories renewal ""The cooking of the Old"" copper engraving ""Splendor solis"" of Salomon Trismosin Rorschach Switzerland 1599,

woodcut showing Adam and Eve after their banishment from the Garden of Eden. Eve is shown suckling her child, while Adam is tilling the ground. From Hartmann Schedel Liber Chronicarum Mundi (Nuremberg Chronicle), Nuremberg, 1493

advert or poster for a traveling entertainer; German (swiss) 1840

Plate from The Distilling Book by H Brunschwig, woodcut, Strasbourg, 1500

Gluttony, allegoric image of the vices, gothic wood carving about 1480

Watchmaker. Workshop. Engraving by Jost Amman. 16th century. "Les Arts au Moyen Age et a l'Epoque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1877. Author: Jost Amman (1539-1591). Swiss-German artist.

Romeo giving money to an apothecary for a poison that will enable him to kill himself. Mezzotint, 17--.

$Medicine. 15th century. Treatment of a fractured leg bone. Woodcut in "Dies ist das buch der chirurgia" (This is the book of surgery).$

medicine pharmacy goldsmith selling drinking vessels and goblets woodcut from ""Ortus Sanitatis"" (The garden of health) by Jakob Meydenbach Mainz Germany 1491 private collection,

Poet with Epilogue. unknown c. 1495-1525 Tapestry Dimensions: H 3'3/8" x W 2'11" Tapestry Materials/Techniques: wool (warp: 5-6/cm); wool & silk (weft) Culture: Southern Netherlands Ownership History: Commissioned by Guy de Baudreuil, abbé comendataire of the abbey of Saint-Martin-aux-Bois in the doicese of Beauvais. M. and Mme. Kermaingant coll., Paris, by 1886. Property of French & Co. by 1923. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lehman coll., New York, 1923. Bequeathed to the MMA by Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965. United States, New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accno. 65.181.22. Inscriptions: Inscription in central field on tablet: Gens de briefve duree modaie / qua chasse mortelle & subdaie / etes comme cerf asservis / cosiderez la vie humaine / et la fin ou elle vous maine / et les metz dont serez servis / alors que serez desservis / de Jeunesse et aurez adviz / advisez atel propoz prendre / que qat serez de mort Ravis / et les vers serot au corps vifz / que

Saxon god Crodon. From Herman Stangefol 'Annales Circuli Westphaliae', 1656. Woodcut

OVIDIO. PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO. POETA LATINO. 43 AC - 18 DC. " SUICIDIO POR AMOR ". ILUSTRACION DE METAMORFOSIS. IMPRESA POR ANTOINE VERAD DE PARIS , FINALES DEL SIGLO XV.

'Pasiphae', 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier

Saint Alto. Dated: c. 1500. Medium: woodcut, hand colored in burgundy, blue-green, orange, brown, red, and yellow-green. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

Colored woodcut by an anonymous artist depicting the Supper, showing figures, gestures, and table composition.

Ptolemy (Claudius of Ptolemaeus), Alexandrian Greek astronomer and geographer, 1618. Artist: Unknown

Vatican City, Raphael, Italy, Bartoli, Pietro Sante, Scenes from the life of Pope Leo Title in bottom margin. Numbered bottom center: 4., print, prints, height 102 mm, width 270 mm, Italian, 1615 - 1700-11-07, print maker, printmaker, 1645 - 1700, paper, papier, etching, etchings, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, 1483-04-07 - 1520-04-07, after a design by

The Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant, 1494, late medieval moral satire. Of visitation and punishment of God, hail and vermin descend upon the earth, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

The hero Wittich in battle with the giant Asperian, facsimile of a woodcut from the Heldenbuch zu Strasbourg-Hagenau, printed in 1509, digitally restored reproduction of an original from the 19th century, exact original date not known

The giant Ascaparte, vanquished by Sir Bevis, becomes his page, depicted here carrying his lady on board a ship - from Copland's 'Sir Beuys of Hampton' Date: circa 1550

Russia (17th-18th centuries). Drawing on how men had to shave according to royal law. Engraving.

The hero Wittich in battle with the giant Asperian, facsimile of a woodcut from the Heldenbuch zu Strasbourg-Hagenau, printed in 1509, digitally resto...

Cubierta de la obra escrita por Turmeda, Encelm; en Mallorca; Año 1398.

Netherlandish 15th Century, Christ as the Man of Sorrows, c. 1500, woodcut, hand-colored in yellow, ochre, brown and indian red

Solon (c640-559 BC) Greek lawyer, poet and merchant. Woodcut from 'Liber chronicarum mundi' (Nuremberg Chronicle) by Harmann Schedel (Nuremberg, 1493).

Printing office,''Nova reperta'' , 1600, Stradanus, (1523-1605/Flemish), Engraving

Swedish countryfolk fighting serpents Date: 1555

Torture, Dropping on pointed objects, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

A Catalan farmer spreads his corn for threshing Date: 1511

Netherlands, Bray, Dirck de, Vignette with the coat of arms of the city of Haarlem, verso - stamped, The coat of arms of the city of Haarlem with a crown and two lions., print, prints, height 59 mm, width 78 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1600 - 1699, paper, woodcut, Northern Netherlands, 1645 - 1694-05-09

Man of Sorrows Seated Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528). Man of Sorrows Seated, 1509-1511; edition 1511. Woodcut on laid paper, Image: 3 3/8 x 3 3/16 in. (8.6 x 8.1 cm). European Art 1509-1511; edition 1511

Woodcut from legenda sanctorum zainer augsburg 1474. The Golden Legend (Latin: Legenda sanctorum) a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that became a late medieval bestseller. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived.

Usice & molaris circa 1491.

Two Fighting Women, Crispijn Van den Queborn, After Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, 1643 print In an arena, two women fight each other with Schild and Dors, under the watchful eye of the public. Page from a book with text on recto and verso. print maker: The Hagueafter design by: Dordrecht paper engraving / letterpress printing fighting

Zeemerman and mermaid. A man and a woman to their medicine in the water. Under the print four expressed lines of text in German.

Chariot with trumpets and horns, group Maximilian I's triumphal procession, facsimile by Hans Burgkmair Woodcut: Maximilian's triumphal procession is ...

"Trau, Schau, Wem", German for "Take Care in Whom You Trust", historical illustration from the 19th century after an engraving from the 17th century against slander

illustration of English tales, folk tales, and ballads. A man dressed in red going for a walk

'How are you massa gemmen, an de ladies in a row ...every time I turn about, I jump Jim Crow' - the archetypal nigger, ragged, dancing, a figure of fun... Date: early 19th century

Torture, double stretching, the victims are stretched on a rack by torturers, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

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