[ORIGINAL WOODCUT PRINTING BLOCK] THE LAST JUDGEMENT

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Publication Date: 1680

About this Item

Original woodcut printing block depicting The Last Judgement, with the Heavenly City at the top with shining light above, two gateways with gardens leading towards it, Jesus Christ and four angels in front, and with human figures in the foreground, including a horse-drawn cart taking away the damned. 78 x 83mm. Old manuscript label to the side: "Last Judgement / White collection". The block remains in very good condition indeed with only a touch of minor old loss to the foot of the lower border. Accompanied by an impression taken from the block printed on high-quality modern paper. A splendid late seventeenth- / early eighteenth-century woodcut printing block depicting The Last Judgement, with a resplendent Heavenly City at the head. The present block originates from the workshop of the pioneering Newcastle printer John White (1689-1769), who inherited a large collection of blocks (most likely including the present one) from his father, also John White, the York-based printer. White's collection of blocks subsequently descended through a series of Newcastle printers: Thomas Saint, Thomas Angus, George Angus, Emerson Charnley and William Dodd. The present wood-cut is reproduced in Charnley's 'Specimens of Early Wood Engraving: being impressions of woodcuts from the collection of Mr. Charnley' (Newcastle: 1858) and Dodd's subsequent 1862 edition. A large portion of White's original collection of blocks now resides at McGill University.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [ORIGINAL WOODCUT PRINTING BLOCK] THE LAST JUDGEMENT
• Publication Date: 1680
• Binding: Hardcover