Object Details
- Description
- Wooden handle with U-shaped 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. 5 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.03210.05
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03210.05
- Object Name
- chisel
- Measurements
- overall: 12 cm; 4 23/32 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Tokuno Gift
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1412585
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-5db1-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
