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Printing Block (Relief) of Engraving of the Ashmolean Museum Interior, Created for Publication by R.T. Gunther, English, 1920s

Inventory Number 18489


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.18489

Item type
Object
Provenance
Found in Museum store with other printing blocks from Oxford University Press for the works of R.T. Gunther.
Primary inscriptions
"155" written in pencil on one side.
Physical material
Wood
Object type
Printing block
Dimensions
Height: 22mm Width: 94mm Depth: 71mm Weight: 134g
Inventory No
18489
Accession Number
2022-

Description

Relief printing block mounted on wood, reproducing the engraving of the Ashmolean Museum's School of Natural History from the Duncan catalogue. This is a clasic image with a giraffe in front of the door to the Sheldonian Yard.