Object Details
- Description
- Straightedge, steel, for cutting straight lines and for fixing registration marks on the blocks used in color printing. Woodblock-cutter's tool used in Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques from about 1890 to 1990s. Identified as No. 1 in watercolor drawing GA 03209.02 showing the tools of the block cutter. Old paper label "No. 1"
- 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.03210.01
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 3210.01
- Object Name
- straightedge
- Measurements
- overall: 36.5 cm x 2.5 cm; 14 3/8 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_1275855
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-727d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
