Wood engraving
A print produced in a similar way to a woodcut. The main difference between the two techniques is in the block itself and in the finer results that are produced. Woodcuts are cut along the grain, in wood engraving a hard wood is cut across the grain. On this smooth, very hard, and grainless surface sharp tools can cut very fine furrows, each of which prints as a fine white line.
Probably John Knox
after Vaensoun
published 1581
NPG D18555
The Emperor Maximilian studying the Science of Music
by Hans Burgkmair
possibly 16th century
NPG D24117
King Charles II
after Unknown artist
1660-1685
NPG D18472
'The pope suppressed by King Henry VIII'
after Unknown artist
1570
NPG D24931
Sir Edwin Chadwick
after Unknown artist
published in the Illustrated London News 22 January 1848
NPG D2037
Edward Jenner
published by Illustrated London News, after M.E. Paul
published 30 September 1865 (11 September 1865)
NPG D9007
Augusta Webster (née Davies)
after Ferrando
published 1882
NPG D13818
Sarah Bernhardt
by Frédéric Florian, or by Ernest Florian, after Jan Marie Constantin van Beers
probably 1890s
NPG D1062
Eric Gill
by Eric Gill
1927
NPG D2774
Gertrude Hermes
by Gertrude Hermes
1949
NPG 6002
Albert Charles Garrett
by Albert Charles Garrett
1976
NPG D16756
Stanley Lawrence
by Anne Jope
1980
NPG D5028