Object Details
- Description
- Wooden handle with metal blade beveled on one side, 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. 10 in watercolor drawing GA 03209.02 showing the tools of the block cutter. Residue of paper label with Japanese writing.
- 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.03210.10
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03210.10
- Object Name
- chisel
- Measurements
- overall: 11 cm; 4 11/32 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Tokuno Gift
- Art
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1412589
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-5e05-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
