Monday, December 21, 2009

Woodcut of the Week: Fisher's profile



Parson Fisher labored for several years carving the woodblocks for his 1833 book, Scripture Animals, the culmination of a life long fascination with the depiction of flora and fauna.  This is the title page illustration, in which Parson Fisher, in an unexpected bit of whimsey, has embedded his own profile in the leaves of the trees.

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