Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Catalogue of Works on the Fine Arts Offered at the Net Prices Affixed
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
New Series of Catalogues
Author: Karl W. HiersemannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper
Author: Max SchweidlerPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368358
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. To address what he saw as a woeful dearth of relevant literature and in order to assist those who have 'set themselves the goal of preserving cultural treasures, ' the noted German restorer composed a thorough technical manual covering a wide range of specific techniques, including detailed instructions on how to execute structural repairs and alterations that, if skilfully done, can be virtually undetectable. By the mid-twentieth century, curators and conservators of graphic arts, discovering a nearly invisible repair in an old master print or drawing, might comment that the object had been 'Schweidlerized.' This volume, based on the authoritative revised German edition of 1949, makes Schweidler's work available in English for the first time, in a meticulously edited and annotated critical edition. The editor's introduction places the work in its historical context and probes the philosophical issues the book raises, while some two hundred annotati
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn
Author: Lincoln's Inn (London, England). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Middle Temple
Author: Middle Temple (London, England). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: M-Z and additions to June, 1889
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of the Middle Temple, 1868-77, with an Index of Subjects
Author: Inns of Court (London). - Middle Temple. - LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The Forgotten Fourdrinier
Author: Peter SimpsonPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524658200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book is a meticulously researched but very readable story of Huguenot Paul Fourdriniers journey from being an apprentice in Holland to a highly recognized printmaker in London in the eighteenth century. Paul is almost forgotten and artistically underrated but was an accomplished copper engraver who founded the English Fourdrinier dynasty, which produced the developers of the Fourdrinier papermaking machine and the mother of Cardinal Newman. The reader will be immersed in his world and his connections to aristocrats, artists, and great projects of the ageincluding the development of Palladian neoclassical architecture, the Foundlings Hospital, and the Savannah colony in Georgiaand renowned talents such as the sculptor Rysbrack, painter Hogarth, designer William Kent, and composer George Frederick Handel. As well as the great and powerful, we meet the eccentricsGeorge Vertue, Horace Walpole, the reverend Stephen Duck, Batty Langley, courtesan Teresia Constantia Phillips, and the curious affair of Mary Toft, who convinced half the nation that she had given birth to rabbits. This was a time of exciting intellectual development. The combination of copper engraving and printing along with the removal of state censorship and the institution of copyright led to a wave of information and learning not dissimilar to the impact of the Internet. The institution of commercial companies and banks foreshadowed the Industrial Revolution and made possible projects such as Charles Labeyles first Westminster Bridge, the building of Regency Bath and James Gibbs Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, all engraved by Fourdrinier on behalf of their creators. In his shop in Whitehall, he developed master engravings of uncommon size and shapes for customers, including the Earls of Burlington and Pembroke, and engraved for Thomas Wright, the astronomer who first defined galaxies, and William Chambers, who propelled Chinese fashion into Georgian design. This is a fascinating book from beginning to end.
The Fine Arts
Author: Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description