Show your WOODcuts!

[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.