- Subject
- Print Collection
- 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.
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