Boston College collection of European woodcut prints

Collection

Identifier: BC-2026-010

Scope and Contents

Frontispiece and thirty additional woodcut prints from a later edition of Jerome Nadal's Evangelicae historiae imagines (Antwerp: Jan Galle, 1647), along with two additional loose plates from other seventeenth‑century theological works.

Dates

Creation: approximately 1600s

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.

Historical note: Woodcuts

A woodcut print is created by carving a relief image into a block of wood and printing that image onto a piece of paper. In Europe, woodcutting developed beginning in the fifteenth century and flourished as a cost-effective way to illustrate books on paper, since the images could be set alongside text and printed numerous times.

Sources:

Thompson, Wendy, "The Printed Image in the West: Woodcut," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 1, 2003. https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-printed-image-in-the-west-woodcut

"woodcut (process)", Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online, 2004. http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300053296.

Full Extent

1 Linear Feet (1 container)

Language of Materials

Latin

Additional Description

Abstract

Seventeenth-century European woodcut prints including the frontispiece and additional engraved plates from Jerome Nadal's Evangelicae historiae imagines (Antwerp: Jan Galle, 1647), along with two additional loose prints from other Catholic theological works.