Object Details
- Description
- Watercolor drawing depicting the tools of the block cutter for Japanese printmaking. Identified as "Fig. II" with 25 numbered drawings of tools. The tools are catalogued as GA*03210.01-.25. 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
- ca 1888-89
- ID Number
- GA.03209.02
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03209.02
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Measurements
- sheet: 27.3 cm x 38.5 cm; 10 3/4 in x 15 5/32 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Tokuno Gift
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1412605
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-92e2-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
