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This line engraving is a cartoon which may have appeared in a magazine printed in Melbourne. The text mentions the year: 1978.

As it stands, there are two plates, pinned (nailed) to the wooden block. These would have been made as a single plate, pinned, and then separated by the routing machine. You can see the lines in the block where the router has passed.

This engraving, along with thousands of others from magazines, books, advertising and small newspapers, forms part of the Museum's archives.

The sheer volume of the archives is what is putting them at risk because of the cost of storage. Possibly no other museum in the world has a comparable collection of artefacts and documents relating to printing businesses and their myriad customers. Many of the businesses referenced by the collection are no longer operating.