Object Details
- Description
- Wooden brush used for removing wood shavings during block cutting for Japanese printmaking. Bristles held in place by diagonal stitches. Fragment of paper label on handle. Woodblock-cutter's tool used in Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques from about 1890 to 1990s. Identified as No. 2 in watercolor drawing GA 03209.02 showing the tools of the block cutter.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
- ID Number
- GA.03210.02
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03210.02
- Object Name
- brush
- Measurements
- overall: 19 cm x 2.5 cm; 7 15/32 in x 31/32 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Tokuno Gift
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1412571
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-649e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
