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This intereting and half-Surreal woodcut appeared as a small 3/4″x1 1/2″ illustration for an article in Nature for May 22, 1873. I like it quite a bit. It is tiny, spare, odd, and contains all of the necessary technical details. And it was an innovation–just a fine piece of work.