Object Details
- Description
- Watercolor drawing depicting the activities of the block printer for Japanese printmaking. Identified as "Fig. III" . 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 model manikins and lay out the Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques. Printer shown seated with his furniture and tools.
- 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.03209.03
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03209.03
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Measurements
- sheet: 27.5 cm x 38.5 cm; 10 13/16 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_1412607
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-7288-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
