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Harvard-Yale Football Match, November 21, 1891 --- Printing Plate
American
1891
Medium/Technique
Cast zinc alloy
Dimensions
Height x width: 12.7 × 21.7 cm (5 × 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Boston Engraving Co.
Accession NumberM8363
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsTools and equipment – Printmaking
DescriptionThis zinc plate, reproducing a drawing (MFA object number M8361) is the third item in a suite of objects meant to illustrate the process of publishing a photograph in the daily newspaper. The full suite bear MFA object numbers M8361 - M8366.
In his catalogue to the 1892 "Exhibition Illustrating the Technical Methods of the Reproductive Arts," Sylvester Koehler described the process as follows: "The drawing, based upon a small instantaneous photograph, was finished by evening, the negative was made by 10.30 P. M., and the block was ready for the printer by 12.30 A.M., Nov. 22. It appeared in the Boston “Morning Herald,” of Nov. 22, 1891."
In his catalogue to the 1892 "Exhibition Illustrating the Technical Methods of the Reproductive Arts," Sylvester Koehler described the process as follows: "The drawing, based upon a small instantaneous photograph, was finished by evening, the negative was made by 10.30 P. M., and the block was ready for the printer by 12.30 A.M., Nov. 22. It appeared in the Boston “Morning Herald,” of Nov. 22, 1891."
InscriptionsLower center, in image: Boston Eng Co. [reversed]
Provenance1892, gift of Boston Engraving Company, Boston, to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: March 15, 1892)