printing-block

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Object Type: printing-block
Museum number: B,11.1
Description: Copy of the 'Grotesque Alphabet of 1464' letters K and I Woodblock cut for printing a woodcut DRAFT
Producer name: Print made by: Anonymous (after an anonymous Netherlandish printmaker of 1464)
School/style: British
Production date: 1700 (approx)
Materials: wood
Technique: cut
Dimensions: Height: 000 millimetres; Thickness: 000 millimetres; Width: 000 millimetres
Curator's comments: Dodgson surmised that these woodblocks formed part of the Bagford collection. Corresponding prints are to be found in a complete set of woodcut copies of the 'Grotesque Alphabet of 1464' ('the work of an inexperienced English woodcutter') in Harl. 5934 (BL). These copies may have formed part of Bagford's intended history of printing. See B,10.1-23 for impressions of the original 'Grotesque Alphabet of 1464' in P&D.
Bibliographic references: Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.126.A.131) (under Grotesque Alphabet)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: calligraphy
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: John Bagford (?)
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: B,11.1

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