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This article was first published on Blogcritics.
The last post in this series discussed how lines and dots in wood engraving create the illusion of light and shade in three dimensions, and presented some sample illustrations. This post will explore how wood engravings became the preferred mode of image publication in the nineteenth century.
Why did wood engravings become popular? Partly because they made high-quality, illustrated newspapers, magazines, and books easily and inexpensively available for the first time.
Prior to the invention of wood engraving, publishers had to accept a trade-off:
continued at Wood Engravings and Collage (III)
