Plate, Lithograph
Artifact
2015.1.160
**Picture Block** Rectangular T&G wood block with an attached zinc plate. Front: Zinc plate is blue tinged with 7 pictures etched onto it. Top left corner picture is covering approximately 10.5cm wide x 13.5cm long and features the picture of a smiling man. Top center picture covers approximately 10.5cm W x 11.3cm L and feature the same man juggling and looking up at 3 balls in mid-air. The top right corner picture covers approximately 10.6cm W x 13.6cm L and features a woman's smiling face. The bottom right corner picture covers 14.1cm Long by 10cm W and features a man jumping horizontally through a large lasso. The bottom center picture covers 10.9cm W x 0.5cm L area and features the same man with 2 lassos one circling his chest and the other on his left foot. The bottom left picture covers an area 10.4cm W x 16.2 cm L and features a woman with her head back holding two flame lit torches (presumably fire breathing or eating?). The final picture (in the center of all of the others) covers an area 11cm W x 6cm L and features the man from the top left holding 3 linked rings, unclear what his purpose is. Sides: Blue stain residue on all sides, large amounts on the left right & bottom edges. Back: 3 strips of paper approximately. 14cm L each, have been glued in the top left corner, and two strips approximately. 12.5cm have been glued to the bottom right corner.
Wood (basswood or pine) and a zinc plate
Length: 27.8 cm;
Width: 31.6 cm;
Height: 2.3 cm;
Notes: Height refers to the thickness, width measures horizontally and length measures vertically.
Notes: Height refers to the thickness, width measures horizontally and length measures vertically.
Gift of the Derksen Family