鲁迅在《近代木刻选集》小引里写过这样一段话:“木板画之用,单幅而外,是作书籍插图,然则巧致的铜版图术一出,这就突然中衰,也正是必然之势。惟英国输入铜版术较晚,还在保存旧法,且视此为义务和光荣。1771年以初用木口雕刻,即所谓‘白线雕版法’而出现的,是毕维克(Th·Be-wick),这新法进入欧洲大陆,又成了木刻 Lu Xun wrote the following passage in “Modern Woodcut Selection”: "The use of wood planks is the illustration of a book, but the trickery of copper works is sudden, Is the inevitable trend. However, the United Kingdom entered the later version of copper technology, but also save the old law, and regarded as voluntary and glorious .1771 to use wood engraving, the so-called ’white line engraving method’ appears, (Th · Be-wick), this new law into the European continent, has become a woodcut