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Title

 Equipment for making woodcuts, 1796


Creator

 Fokke, Arend (Simonsz.) (redacteur), Blussé en zoon, A. (uitgever/publisher)


Year

 1796


Type

 prent, print


Measurements

 17 x 23 cm.


Related term

 graveren, houtsnede


Period

 18e eeuw


Classification

 E: Boekillustratie


Content

 When making woodcuts even more equipment is necessary: drawing pens (fig. 32-33), face-protectors (34 and 35), small brush (36), clamp to hold the plate to be worked on (37), grinding stones (38-39), a press (40), a marble rubbing stone (41), a leather ball for pressing (42) and a roller clad with cloth (43). Figs. 44-57 show, from various points of view, the different ways of cutting into wood and figs. 61 and 62 are examples of processed plates.


Original

 Fokke, Arend (Simonsz.). - Volledige beschrijving van alle konsten, ambachten, handwerken, fabrieken, trafieken, derzelver werkhuizen, gereedschappen, enz. Dertiende stuk. De graveur. / [door Arend Fokke, Simonsz.]. - Dordrecht: A. Blussé en zoon, 1796, pl. V


available in

 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 3078 D 19


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 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek


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 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek