Plate, Lithograph
Artifact
2015.1.98
Rectangular wood printing block with a zinc plate attached to the front with a design etched into it. It is tinged blue. Front: the image on the front is a woman in a dress with short styled hair, and a man in a buttoned and collared shirt holding 3 pipes that are connected in the middle (the pipes resemble an inverted "Y". The woman is on the left and is holding 2 pipes at the bottom, and the man is on the right and is holding the pipe that goes upward with his right arm, while his left rests at his side. Back: there is a strip of white-out on the bottom right with the previous temporary number on it. Right above it "EAGM" is written in black ink directly on the wood. There are some strips of paper stuck to certain areas on the back. Two long ones go along the top and left side, and one goes vertically from top to bottom across the middle. There are 2 smaller pieces of paper on the left side piece of paper, running along the edge of the block.
Wood (basswood or pine), Zinc Plate
Length: 16.5 cm;
Width: 12.1 cm;
Height: 2.2 cm;
Notes: Height measures the thickness and the length measures how tall the block is.
Notes: Height measures the thickness and the length measures how tall the block is.
Gift of the Derksen Family