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French ivory book cover of Christ

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Geoff Barker

This photograph is of a section of a book cover carved from ivory in France between 900 and 1100. It shows a large figure of… More

Cast from ivory book cover in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Geoff Barker

This photo-mechanical print is one of the 24 Woodburytypes pasted into J. O. Westwood’s 1876 publication, ‘Fictile [casts of] Ivories in the South Kensington Museum’.… More

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

The licensing of each image varies however we are trying to release as many as possible under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.1 license.