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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Royal College of Art (made)

Hare & Co. were draughtsmen and engravers who specialised in agricultural and other machinery, supplying illustrations for the trade catalogues, advertisements and other promotional material for some of the leading machinery manufacturers of the day such as Ransome's in Suffolk.

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Categories	Prints Advertising
Object type	Print
Materials and techniques	Wood engraving in ink on paper Ink Paper Wood Engraving
Brief description	Proof taken from a wood-engraved block of a chaff machine by Hare & Co. (ca. 1860), taken at the Royal College of Art, British, 1994
Physical description	Proof taken from a wood-engraved block of an agricultural machine.
Dimensions	Block height: 7.8cm Block width: 6.8cm Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1994
Gallery label	[Draft?] Hare & Co. were draughtsmen and engravers who specialised in agricultural and other machinery, supplying illustrations for the trade catalogues, advertisements and other promotional material for some of the leading machinery manufacturers of the day such as Ransome's in Suffolk.(1994) Possibly by HARE & CO (1842-c.1935) Wood engraved block of a chaff machine. c.1860 Boxwood E.733-1994
Object history	Acquired in connection with the display A Fine Line - Commercial Wood Engraving in Britain, V&A, 10 October 1994 - 26 March 1994.
Subject depicted	Machinery (Agricultural)
Summary	Hare & Co. were draughtsmen and engravers who specialised in agricultural and other machinery, supplying illustrations for the trade catalogues, advertisements and other promotional material for some of the leading machinery manufacturers of the day such as Ransome's in Suffolk.
Bibliographic references	Andrews, Martin. The Firm of Hare & Co., Commercial Wood-engravers. B.A. Thesis, Reading University, 1976. Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1994
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.733:2-1994

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Record created	November 25, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O175651/print-unknown/

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