xylographs

Noun

xylograph (plural xylographs)

1. An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).
   • First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasamāja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang.2009, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, The Culture of the Book in Tibet, Columbia University Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   woodcut

2. A print taken from such an engraving.
   • While Walter Gropius had had a reproduction of a xylograph from Lyonel Feininger reproduced on the Bauhaus movement's founding manifesto in 1919 – a symbolic image of a gothic cathedral that was comparatively traditional in both form […]2011, Udo J. Hebel, Christoph Wagner, Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 143

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