Block cutter
Block cutter
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- Description
- Watercolor drawing depicting the activities of the block cutter for Japanese printmaking. Identified as "Fig. I". One of a series of drawings received about 1890 that later were used to model manikins and lay out the Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques. Published in Tokuno essay on Japanese woodcutting and wood-cut printing, edited by S. R. Koehler for SI Annual Report for 1892.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Drawing
- date made
- ca1888-89
- place made
- Japan: Tōkyō, Tokyo
- Measurements
- sheet: 27.5 cm x 38.5 cm; 10 13/16 in x 15 5/32 in
- ID Number
- GA.03209.01
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03209.01
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Tokuno Gift
- Art
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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