All the videos, excluding the squid in ink, are shown at the kiosks in the Images of Nature gallery and you can see many of the featured artworks on your visit.
Wood-block printing using engraved boxwood revolutionised the illustration of natural history in the early 19th century. The work of Thomas Bewick showed how detailed and accurate images could be printed more cheaply than ever before.
More information @ http://web-qa.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/galleries/blue-zone/images-nature-gallery
Beautiful work! It seems like a tedious process, but wood block engravings were the medium influential political cartoonist Thomas Nast used in the late 1800s in his prime.
Habiat23 1 month ago
he didnt seriously just do that with a block of wood
animalnt 7 months ago