Wood engraving in the 19th century became the most important printmaking method for magazine illustration, but is now supplanted by photo-lithographic processes. Boxwood is cut across the grain so that the working surface is the end grain, not the side grain as would be expected in woodcut. Unlike woodcut which uses chisels to cut deeply, wood engraving uses regular engraving tools, but unlike engraving where the image consists of back lines against a white background, wood engraving is based on white lines against black. Woodcuts are best for free bold artworks, wooden gravings suit very fine detailed sort of work. Lionel Lindsay is considered Australia’s greatest wood engraving artist.