During eight years from 1913, Wadsworth produced over
50 woodcuts, and, from 1919, five lithographs, a couple
of etchings, and 23 copper engravings for the book Sailing-ships
and Barges of the Western Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas.
The woodcuts are of great interest in themselves and also
because of the variety of subjects that caught Wadsworth's
imagination: harbours, the industrial valleys of his childhood,
the Greek island on which he was stationed during the war,
the dazzle-camouflaged ships, and the Black Country. For
each subject he found a distinctive artistic language that
was rarely used elsewhere.
Nearly half the woodcuts are in colour - two, three or
four printings. The book includes 49 colour reproductions
of them (seven variants of one woodcut alone).
Each of the prints is reproduced (many are in colour)
in the original size - a few have had to be reduced to
fit the page size.
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