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Simply put, photographs were still scarce, relatively speaking, but they were on their way to replacing woodblock illustrations in newspapers and periodicals to become the dominant form of visual media.

Norton Simon Museum: The museum, which has more than 44,000 objects in its collection including European sculptures, paintings and tapestries as well as Asian art and woodblock prints, sits just outside of the Level 2 evacuation warning for the Eaton fire.

Beto made his son gather all the art in the house — landscape paintings, intricate woodblock prints, abstract works — and he shredded them with scissors and set fire to the scraps in a trash can in the backyard.

This is English artist Charles William Bartlett’s 1919 woodblock print on paper rendition of Punjab’s Golden Temple, a sacred shrine for Sikhs.

Dover-born Bartlett was one of the world’s leading Japanese woodblock painters, and later switched to fine art.