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Printing-matrix
Printing-Block
Woodblock

Object number

LDSAL2022.1.63

Artist/Designer/Maker

Utting, Robert Brooke - Engraver

Production date

19th century

Material

wood
paper

Technique

Carving
Wood Engraving (Process)

Dimensions

height: 195mm
width: 40mm
depth: 25mm

Location

Burlington House -

Inscriptions

Inscription content

A. 44

Inscriber role/association

Publication reference

References

Reference details

pp. 331-334; pl. XII

Reference (free text)

XIX.—Note on an Anglo-Saxon Knife, found in Kent, bearing an Inscription, Archaeologia, Volume 44 (Issue 2), 1874.

Reference association

illustrated

Reference note

Image printed on a plate facing p. 332.
    Rectangular wooden printing block showing:- Obverse: carved and engraved design depicting the back of an Anglo-Saxon knife found in Kent, ornamented with a jagged vertical line of triangles, with an inscription in Old English engraved along the face of the blade. Signed 'Utting' along the edge of the blade. Ink residue remaining on surface. Reverse: printer's waste paper attached to surface.
    Digitised thanks to the kind donation of Prof. Richard Rastall FSA.