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Print

ca. 1860 (made)
Artist/Maker
Hare & Co. (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (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.

Object details

Categories
Prints
Advertising
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
Wood engraving on boxwood
Boxwood
Wood Engraving
Brief description
Wood-engraved block of an agricultural machine, by Hare & Co., British, ca. 1860
Physical description
Wood-engraved block of an agricultural machine for cutting.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.6cm
  • Width: 8.1cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1994
Marks and inscriptions
HARE
Gallery label
HARE & CO (1842 - c.1935)
Wood engraved block of an agricultural machine. c.1860
Boxwood
E.732-1994
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.732:1-1994

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Record createdNovember 25, 2008
Record URL
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