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Electrotype

Description

Electrotype copy of a triumphal arch, taken from the woodblock original T.2011.56.205, created to illustrate Chambers's Encyclopaedia Second Edition, Volume 1 page 381, 1888 - one of a collection of woodblocks of illustrations used by W&R Chambers, 1830s -early 20th century

Museum reference

T.2011.56.206

Collection

Industry and Commerce : Communications

Object name

Electrotype

Production information

W. & R. Chambers Ltd, Publisher
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

1830s - 1930s

Materials

Metal

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