Dr Harris added: “It dates from across the 1800s [and] was utilized by the Admiralty for maps and charts and has that historical past related to it.”
He’s one in all eight artists who will work with the machine throughout the Begin The Press! exhibition, which has opened to the general public.
The intaglio press takes its place within the gallery “as a type of occupation within the custom of art-school scholar sit-ins,” organisers mentioned.
Pupil protests in Wolverhampton have been frequent round Enoch Powell’s 1968 “Rivers of Blood” speech, defined Dr Harris.
“At the moment there was a definite print-making course on the artwork college, and at the moment we additionally had a lithograph and letter press too.”