(Relief Carving of 18th Century Printer), (sculpture).

(Relief Carving of 18th Century Printer), (sculpture).

Unknown, sculptor.

(Relief Carving of 18th Century Printer), (sculpture).

Relief Carving of Eighteenth Century Printer, (sculpture).

Dedicated ca. 1908.

Approx. 6 ft. x 8 ft. x 6 in.

Highly stylized full-length bas-relief figure of a man operating a manual printing press. He faces forward with his head turned to the proper right. He wears knee-length britches and shoes and is bare-chested. With his proper right hand he pulls on the press bar of the printing press. The printing press is behind the figure, extending across the width of the relief panel. The limestone sculpture is located high on the facade of a building.

Figure male -- Full length

Occupation -- Industry -- Printing

Architecture -- Machine -- Printing Press

Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Little Rock

Architectural component

Administered by Little Rock Newspapers, Comptroller, P. O. Box 2221, Little Rock, Arkansas 72203

Located Gazette Building, West 3rd & Louisiana, Little Rock, Arkansas

The building housed the Gazette Newspaper until it was sold to the Democrat newspaper in 1990. The sculpture was included in the sale.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arkansas survey, 1993.

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