Tools and materials illustrating the Japanese method of colour-printing

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VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM CATALOGUES

TOOLS AND MATERIALS ILLUSTRATING THE JAPANESE METHOD OF COLOUR-PRINTING

A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION EXHIBITED IN THE MUSEUM

By Edward Strange

London

PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE

1913

THE MAKING OF COLOUR-PRINTS—WOMEN AS ENGRAVERS.

UTAMARO.—Yedo Meibutsu Nishikiye Kosaku. “The making of colour-prints, the famous product of Yedo: after the engraver's rough engraving the design is carefully carved.” An illustration of the carving of wood-blocks fancifully represented as being done by women. From a print in the Victoria and Albert Museum. J. 5040.