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When:
December 9, 2014 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
2014-12-09T11:00:00+00:00
2014-12-09T16:00:00+00:00
Where:
Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum
University of Oxford, Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH
UK
Ashmolean Museum
University of Oxford, Beaumont Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 2PH
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Special Printing Demonstrations
On a 19th century printing press
With Professor Michael Phillips, exhibition curator
Tuesday 9, Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 December
11am–12pm & 2–4pm
Join Professor Michael Phillips, guest curator of the exhibition, as he prints on a 19th-century printing press, demonstrating the different stages of the print process. Originally trained as a printmaker, Professor Phillips has a unique insight into William Blake’s printing techniques and has been researching and recreating Blake’s method of relief etched copper plates.
Free with the price of exhibition admission and no additional booking is necessary.
http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/williamblake/events/