chisel
Object Details
- Description
- Wooden handle with metal ferrule at base for chisel for removing wood between the lines of the design in a woodblock. (Cutting blade is missing) 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. 18 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
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- GA.03210.18
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03210.18
- Object Name
- chisel
- Measurements
- overall: 11 cm; 4 11/32 in
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Tokuno Gift
- Art
- Record ID
- nmah_1412596
