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Printing Block (Photogravure?) Engraving of the Ashmolean Museum, Created for Publication by R.T. Gunther, English, 1920s" [2022-]

Inventory Number 18488


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.18488

Item type
Object
Provenance
Found in Museum store with other printing blocks from Oxford University Press for the works of R.T. Gunther.
Physical material
Copper
Wood
Paper
Object type
Printing block
Dimensions
Height: 23mm Width: 85mm Depth: 119mm Weight: 264g
Inventory No
18488
Accession Number
2022-

Description

Copper plate, mounted on wooden block, with paper backing carrying an impression of the plate. The original engraving is late 18th or early 19th century and shows the east facade of the Ashmolean Museum.