Object Details
Description
Wooden mallet used to drive chisel into wood block to cut design for Japanese printmaking. 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. 24 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.03210.24
accession number
22582
catalog number
03210.24
Object Name
mallet
Measurements
overall: 28.5 cm x 12 cm x 4.5 cm; 11 7/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 1 25/32 in
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1411970