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The Pioneers
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Great Standing Lottery for Virginia
Broadsheet to demonstrate the drawing of the Great Standing Lottery for Virginia, 1615.
This book seeks to explore the history of comics in Britain and the United States. As such, the convention will be to always deal with Britain first. Thus, in England, the first real evidence of this revolution came in the form of 'broadsheets', anonymously produced woodcuts, on a single side of paper or parchment, typically involving subjects like religion and current affairs. These were hawked by sellers in the street, and usually they included words as well as pictures, although the audience would have been assumed to be illiterate. On the whole, the drawings tended to be bold and simple, with thick linework, primarily because wood did not allow for much subtlety. The blocks did not last long because they were easily damaged, and reproduction was not guaranteeable from one sheet to the next: of the woodcuts that survive, many have parts of the image missing.
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