Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID # |
2016.027.007 |
Object Name |
Plate, Printing |
Title |
Zinc Printing Plate of Five Men Working Near a Log Shanty |
Date |
1940s? |
Year Range from |
1940 |
Year Range to |
1950 |
Artist |
Fleming, Roy Franklin |
Made |
R-B-W (Richardson, Bond & Wright)? |
Place of Origin |
Owen Sound, Grey County/Ottawa, Ontario? |
Description |
A rectangular (landscape orientated) letterpress illustrated printing plate, showing five 19th-century men working in front of a low log building, with tree stumps and barrels in view. Trees are in the background. One man, wearing a Derby hat, looks to be timbersquaring a log with a long-handled axe or adze. Artwork is likely by Roy Fleming (no signature present). Etched/engraved zinc plate. |
Provenance |
Roy Franklin Fleming of Kilsyth, Derby Township, Grey County, apparently was the creator/illustrator of this item. The item was likely made and used in Owen Sound by the R-B-W printing business of C. A. Fleming (a relative of his)? The image was first published in 19__. It was last owned by Ruth H. Lamour (neé Fleming) of Carleton Place, Ontario. |
Collection |
Printing & Bindery Equipment, 20th-c Collection |
Material |
Metal/Zinc |
Dimensions |
W-16 L-10.4 D-0.2 cm |
Found |
Carleton Place, Ontario |
People |
Fleming, Roy Fleming, Christopher Alexander (C. A.) |
Subjects |
Log buildings Loggers Printing Printing plates Artists |
Search Terms |
Kilsyth Derby Township Richardson, Bond & Wright (see RBW) |
Function |
An illustration made into a re-usable printing plate. It would be used by a letterpress era printer / printshop. |