deux chats

Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, FOL-EF-449 (PD)

Here's the French engraver Prosper-Alphonse Isaac (1858-1924) with an elegant pair of creatures.   After years mastering and producing dry point, aquatint and other Western methods, Isaac turned to Japanese wood-engraving technique.  These cats are from that period, dating roughly 1908-1912.  Japanese woodprints used waterbased inks, which had fresh, vivid ranges of color; you can see that here even in the simple lines.
For the fun of it, I found this 1898 text on Japanese wood engravings. It's full of illustrations, even if you don't want to slog through the text.  Have a flip through it.