Old Existential Woodcut [help]

[perro]

I've been trying for like an hour on google trying to find a picture of this old existential woodcut print of a ship at sea with a guy on board and the devil reaching at him. I think it's 16th century but I don't remember the details. Anyone have a clue what I'm talking about/know the author/any help? meh

 

[Cuda]

 

[nSpectre]

Yep. It's cut wood.

 

[FReshMan_MIT]

wood, yep, it's old existenial cut.

 

[perro]

BLARG!

 

[Scuzzle]

 

[perro]

close, but this was more detailed and dramatic. the man in on the ship sort of leaning over the side and the devil is in the water, i think there is an angle or something in the sky as well

 

[Scuzzle]

And it was definitely a woodcut?

 

[Mantua]

i think i know what you're talking about, but i think it's a daguerreotype

 

[perro]

i think it was a woodcut, but it could have been an engraving or line drawing. googling engraving vs woodcut brings up basically the same stuff, line drawing as a keyword is a crap shoot though.

i don't know why it's so hard to find...

edit: it predates daguerreotypes by a few hundred years im pretty sure...

 

[anomaly]

i post this everytime, but i love knowing the first response to threads like this is the picture

 

[SecretSquirrel]

Are you sure it's existential? That looks like a 17th centrury British 3rd-rater.

 

[perro]

well the existential aspect may be a more modern interpretation, though i figured it would be labeled existential. i'm not really sure how else to narrow it down