Plate Descriptions for "Minting, Plotting and Molding Tools"

Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper, darkened to cream

Photomechanical print with applied type on paper, splatter-painted

Woodblock print; ink on paper; with printed inscription reading from right to left: "Dou Zhen Niangniang" ("Smallpox Goddess"). Probably from Beijing; part of a possible set of paper gods 1935.36.62-.81.

Engraving and etching on cream antique laid paper

Woodblock-printed book (28 detached leaves); ink and color on paper

Photolithograph with transparent base ink on hand-flamed and sooted paper; image brushed with lithotine and lifted from soot, fused in a mild solution of shellac and denatured alcohol