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Wood-engraving block [uncut]: Scene from William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (?)

Gustave Doré, 19th century

Uncut woodblock

19th centuryFrench

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Double-sided wooden printing block: on one side a facsimile of the keyblock of Hiroshige's Clearing Storm over Awazu (Awazu no seiran), from the series Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei), on the reverse an anonymous green colorblock of willow branches in a storm

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 1891

Carved cherry wood

19th centuryJapanese

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Double-sided wooden printing block: on one side the keyblock to one of Hiroshige's Tōtō meishō sakatsukushi no uchi images, on the reverse the keyblock to Twenty Warriors by Utagawa Yoshitora(?)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Carved cherry wood

19th centuryJapanese

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Double-sided wooden printing block: one side showing a Harunobu image, the reverse showing two women and a child beside a wheel

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信

Carved cherry

Japanese

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Double-sided wooden printing block: one side showing a Kuniyoshi image, the reverse showing Sawamura Tanosuke from the series Mitate rokkasen

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, 19th century

Carved wood

19th centuryJapanese

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Double-sided wooden printing block: one side showing the background from an Omi hakkei series, the reverse showing a rain pattern

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重, 19th century

Carved wood

19th centuryJapanese

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Singled-sided (split?) wooden printing block: two "angels" playing musical instruments

Unknown Artist

Carved wood

Japanese

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Single-sided wooden printing block: Courtesans in the "Primitive" style

Unknown Artist

Carved wood

Japanese

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Single-sided wooden printing block: fan-shaped Bunchō image of the actor Ichikawa Mononosuke, from the series Ehon butai ogi

Ippitsusai Bunchō

Carved wood

Japanese

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Single-sided wooden printing block: fan-shaped Bunchō image of the actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu, from the series Ehon butai ogi

Ippitsusai Bunchō

Carved wood

Japanese

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Palette used by John Singer Sargent

Unknown Artist, 19th-20th century

Oil on wood

19th-20th centuryAmerican

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Engraved Woodblock: God Speed

Rockwell Kent, 19th-20th century

19th-20th centuryAmerican

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Katagami Textile Stencil with Diagonal Grid Design of Flowers, Cranes and Geometric Forms

Unknown Artist, late 19th-early 20th century

Daihan (large-sized) minogami (mulberry bark paper) treated with persimmon juice and cut using the "kiribori" (drill-carving), "hikibori" (pull-carving), and "tsukibori" (thrust-carving) techniques, with "ito-ire" (silk-web) reinforcement

19th-20th centuryJapanese

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Stencil

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Cut paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

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Stencil

John Singer Sargent, 19th-20th century

Cut brown cardboard

19th-20th centuryAmerican

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THREE WOODEN DIES FOR PRINTING TEXTILE DESIGNS BY HAND

Unknown Artist

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THREE WOODEN DIES FOR PRINTING TEXTILE DESIGNS BY HAND

Unknown Artist

Wood

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THREE WOODEN DIES FOR PRINTING TEXTILE DESIGNS BY HAND

Unknown Artist

Wood

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Small cutting tool, from a set for making Japanese woodblocks

Unknown Artist

Wooden-handled metal cutting tool with metal-wrapped tip

Japanese

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Small cutting tool (aisuki) with curved blade, from a set for making Japanese woodblocks

Unknown Artist

Curved steel(?) blade with wooden handle and copper rim

Japanese

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