Show your WOODcuts!

[aquarius31]

Woodcuts are one of the most underrated and undervalued items imo but provide incredible eye appeal. Here are few to get started...show yours!

[parker1b2]

Also think they are underrated. They are a nice inexpensive way to pick up some 19th Century memorabilia.

image.jpg

[doug.goodman]

The Daily Graphic
April 28, 1887
"The New Yorks"

One of these days I need to do a scan to replace this fuzzy picture.

Doug

[toyman55]

not sure if it a real woodcut or a reprint but here is mine.

[bgar3]

It certainly looks real, but it has been handcolored.

[toyman55]

Originally Posted by bgar3

It certainly looks real, but it has been handcolored.

How and when would it have been hand colored?

[bgar3]

The time of handcoloring would only be a guess. The original was not colored, so sometime after it appeared. It could have been done by a group of professionals who were doing this, and may still be doing it. I knew of them in the late 70's but they may have doing it for longer.(I recall that they would even do a number of them and send them to dealers, to sell for them on spec) Usually they are done with watercolors and/or pencil. Most I have seen are very well done and certainly look nice framed. My own preference is for the original without the coloring, but I fully see the interest in colored ones.

[doug.goodman]

That handcolored one is :
Harper's Weekly
June 27, 1874
page 536
"International Base-Ball -- The Boston Champions"

Here's mine...

[aquarius31]

Very nice woodcuts! There was a restrike of the 1874 Red Stockings woodcut (interestingly enough may have still been a woodcut) but the one here is original. It's also worth noting that there are some instances where the same wood block was repeated across a few different publications (ex. Leslie's and Illustrated London News).

I've never seen a watercolors applied to woodcuts but perhaps it's hard to for me to distinguish between pencil and water color.

[bigfanNY]

I bought these in the late 1970's from an artist/art student in NY. He lived in the upper east side and My Dad and I went to his house/studio and picked bought home 4 or 5. I have /had a number of non colored woodcuts and even a few complete Harper's with woodcut's. But I have always liked the hand colored versions and rotate a few on display.

[GaryPassamonte]

Daily Graphic.

[aquarius31]

That's a great and rare one Gary! Also love those colored Harpers...very well executed.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[bigfanNY]

Going to post a few more and repost the Baseball Match at Elysian Fields Hoboken, It was published October 15th 1859 pages 664-665 in Harpers weekly. It is the oldest baseball item I own. Also a great woodcut of Ewing sliding Flint catching. The artist did his homework trying his best to get the uniform colors correct. The Boston as discussed earlier was reissued later and I believe that it was water-colored as opposed to drawn striking image. And the uncolored version of the Atlantic's of Brooklyn and the Athletics's of Phila. A game of Baseball in Thirteenth regiment armory. And the new home of the NY Metropolitan's on Staten Island.
J

[Joe Hunter]

Here are a couple that you don't see every day. Aug 15 1871 Illustrated London News(Boston - great illustration of the underhand pitchers delivery and split grip) and 1869 New York Clipper of the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

[bigfanNY]

The two player woodcut with an early Commy is a half page so nice and large. A powerhouse White Sox team

[Runscott]

They don't do much for me, but that's mainly because there is a limited selection of quality ones and I've seen them all many times. The hand-tinted ones are interesting if done well, and most were tinted near the time of printing.

[aquarius31]

Very nice Joe! Here are a few more.

09/12/57 - Spirit of the Times - Base Ball in America
07/15/76 - Canadian Illustrated News - Tecumseh Baseball Club
10/17/85 – Police Gazette – The Monarchs of the Diamond Field

[bigfanNY]

George

2 woodcut's of Chicago 1885. What a Contrast How they are portrayed, Police Gazette Monarch's of the field and the Harper's Same team but just a bunch of regular guys sprawled out on the ground. The image vs the reality..

J

[barrysloate]

George- as you probably know, that woodcut from the Spirit of the Times is the first baseball one ever to appear in an American newspaper. As such, it is very significant. Nice one!

[aquarius31]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

George- as you probably know, that woodcut from the Spirit of the Times is the first baseball one ever to appear in an American newspaper. As such, it is very significant. Nice one!

Thanks Barry! Yes, there are previous baseball woodcuts but not in a newspaper format...at least to my knowledge.

[doug.goodman]

I like this one from the Police Gazette May 17, 1884 page 16

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

I bought these in the late 1970's from an artist/art student in NY. He lived in the upper east side and My Dad and I went to his house/studio and picked bought home 4 or 5. I have /had a number of non colored woodcuts and even a few complete Harper's with woodcut's. But I have always liked the hand colored versions and rotate a few on display.

I have the one on top: 'New York versus Boston' (not framed) and am looking to sell it.

PM if any interest.

-Raymond

[YankeeFan]

I love the woodcuts too. I have a few, but none of those beautiful hand-colored ones.

Here's one that hasn't been posted yet. It is from 1865. The caption reads:

Grand Match between the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia, and the Resolute Club of Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, June 15th, at the Union Ground, Brooklyn



I've always been intrigued by that building standing in the middle of the outfield. Does anyone know what the purpose of that was?