uwmspeccoll:Wood Engraving WednesdayThe great Czech American wood engraver, illustrator, and type an
uwmspeccoll:Wood Engraving WednesdayThe great Czech American wood engraver, illustrator, and type and book designer Rudolph Ruzicka (1883-1978) began to do a series of color wood-engraved city scenes in the 1910s: Newark, New York City, Prague, the fountains of Papal Rome. He began his series on Boston and its environs beginning in 1911 as annual New Year’s keepsakes for D. B. Updike’s Merrymount Press, and would continue the series until a year after Updike’s death in 1941. These would be Ruzicka’s last set of multi-color wood engravings before he turned his attention mainly to type and book design.The selection of Boston-area views shown here are reproductions drawn from the original blocks at the Boston Athenaeum and published in 1975 by David R. Godine as Boston, Distinguished Buildings & Sites Within the City and its Orbit as Engraved on Wood by Rudolph Ruzicka, printed by the Meriden Gravure Company in Meriden, Connecticut. In the introduction, Walter Muir Whitehill, former Director of the Boston Athenaeum, who also wrote commentaries on each plate, offers this epigraph about Ruzicka and his engravings of city scenes:HE PUT BURIN TO BOXWOOD & PRESERVED CITIES.Click on the images to view the captions. Our copy of Boston is another gift from our friend Jerry Buff. View more posts related to Rudolph Ruzicka.View more posts with wood engravings! -- source link
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