New Online Resource

In Victorian London, ‘woodpeckers’ or ‘peckers’ was slang for wood engravers. At this time, wood engraving was the medium of mass production, profusely illustrating books, magazines, catalogues and packaging: everything from Dickens and Trollope illustrations to fitness manuals and chocolate adverts. Wood engraving was ubiquitous, not unlike the digital photograph today, but far more labour intensive.

Bethan Stevens, who I finally got to meet in person in Cardiff a few weeks ago has recently launched this new online exhibition: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/english/dalziel/discover-the-dalziels/

It looks really interesting.