Plate, printing

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OBJECT TYPE: copper electrolyte
DATE: Unknown
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2004.1888.002

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Bois du Tombeau de Mere D'Youville
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 2
Total Parts: 4
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: metal plate on wood block

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 2.0 cm
Width: 1.6 cm
Height: 2.4 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Printing
Category: Image carriers
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Quebec
Period: Unknown
Canada: A printing plate from a collection used by the les Soeurs de la Charité de Montreal, the Sisters of Charity of Montreal (Soeurs Grises/Grey Nuns) to print images for prayer books, albums, souvenirs etc. They include ornaments and other simple line engravings, devotional and historical scenes, portraits and images depicting convent life and its various charitable activities [e.g. a broom making workshop for the blind]. The order was established by Mme Marguerite d'Youville in Montreal in 1737 to serve to poor and sick. The Grey Nuns run hospitals, orphanages, schools, homes for the aged, institutions for the blind, and other social services and works of charity in various parts of Canada and the United States. D'Youville was officially recognized as a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church in 1990.
Function: Used in a printing press to transfer an image to paper using ink
Technical: An item from a collection of zinc engravings and/or copper electrotypes mounted on wood blocks. These technologies, both relying on photographic transfer of images to a printing surface, were developed and perfected between 1860 and 1890. They were the principle methods of producing images in letterpress printing and survived until the demise of the letterpress in most commercial applications a hundred years later.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: none
Missing: appears complete
Finish: unfinished wood/ brown plate
Decoration: seal of the Souers Grises de Montreal consisting of a cross, a wreath of pine branches, lettering 'BOIS DU TOMBEAU/ DE MERE D'YOUVILLE'

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Unknown Manufacturer, Plate, printing, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 2004.1888, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/item/2004.1888.002/

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