1942.162: Set of Engraving Tools
Artists' Tools
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1942.162
- Title
- Set of Engraving Tools
- Classification
- Artists' Tools
- Work Type
- printing tools
- Date
- c. 1825
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/237774
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Lilias Page
- Accession Year
- 1942
- Object Number
- 1942.162
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
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Letter of donation:
20 March 1942
Dr. Jakob Rosenberg
Print Department Fogg Art Museum
Dear Dr. Rosenberg,
... without doubt they were brought from England. Their owner was born in England in 1799, came to this country in 1837 and died in Boston in 1854. These tools were used first in England and then here; this may account for the fancy shape of their handles that you spoke of...
Sincerely yours,
Lilias Page
Box inventory, 18 August 1971: copper engraving plate, calling card size, blank 1 burin handle designed to accommodate interchangeable points, no point installed 1 burin handle designed to accommodate interchangeable points, a triangular point installed 1 burin handle designed to accommodate interchangeable points, a lozenge point installed 15 needle-tipped burin points 18 single- and double-tipped spring steel points set into round brass shafts 3 round sharpened steel points set into wood handles 1 square-X-section wood-handled burin designed to be driven with a mallet 1 burnisher 1 half-round and 3 lenticular files broken wooden burin handle 16 broken or otherwise damaged burins and pieces of steel 2 sections of brass rod 2 small pieces of stone (whetstones?)
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 03/21/2022
Verification Level
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