Block printer's tools
date: label: date made
content: ca 1888-89
notes: label: Description
content: Watercolor drawing depicting the tools of the block printer for Japanese printmaking. Identified as "Fig. IV" with 17 numbered drawings of tools and furniture which are catalogued as GA*03211.01-.17. This drawing was published in Tokuno essay on Japanese woodcutting and wood-cut printing, edited by S. R. Koehler for SI Annual Report for 1892. One of a series of drawings received about 1890 that later were used to lay out the Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Tokuno Gift
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.03209.04
label: accession number
content: 22582
label: catalog number
content: 03209.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: sheet: 27.2 cm x 38.5 cm; 10 23/32 in x 15 5/32 in