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Early Media - the Role of Woodcuts

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    • Effects of Civil War?

      The World Turned Upside Down

The print shown here, The World Turned Upside Down, comes from the English Civil War period and is a good early example of political comment in visual form, reflecting as it does a sense of England in a state of chaos during the trauma of those years.

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
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Early Media - the Role of Woodcuts, © Kate Watson, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.
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