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Textile Printing Block

c.1800 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
France (made)

Carved wood block for a printed textile

Object details

Categories
Printmaking Techniques
Woodwork
Textiles
Object type
Textile printing block
Materials and techniques
carved wood
Wood
Woodcarving
Brief description
Unknown. Woodblock for printing textiles. French, c.1800
Physical description
Carved wood block for a printed textile
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.8125in
  • Width: 4.3125in
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1937, London: Board of Education, 1938.
  • Sarah Grant, Toiles de Jouy: French Printed Cottons 1760-1830 (London, 2010), p. 17, fig. 10.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.371-1937

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1094247/textile-printing-block-unknown/
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