chisel
chisel
- Description
- Wooden handle with metal blade, flat, narrow chisel for removing small bits of wood between the lines of the design of a woodblock. One of a group of woodblock-cutter's tools used in Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques from about 1890 to 1990s. Identified as No. 8 in watercolor drawing GA 03209.02 showing the tools of the block cutter.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- chisel
- Measurements
- overall: 11.3 cm; 4 7/16 in
- ID Number
- GA.03210.08
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03210.08
- 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
- Art
- Tokuno Gift
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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