Author: F. L. WilderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
How to Identify Old Prints
Identifying Antique Commercial Printing Processes, And the Basics of Authenticating Antique and Art Prints
Author: David CyclebackPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312883286
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This black-and-white print version on the online guide reprints previously published articles by the prominent art scholar and authentication expert David Cycleback. The book focuses on identifying standard printing processes, but includes additional chapters on authenticating and dating antique and fine art prints, and gives the essential basics for collectors, sellers, historians, students and art enthusiasts. Along with showing how to identify etchings, engravings, lithographs, photoengravings, woodcuts and other processes, topics include identifying and dating paper, how to identify modern reproductions and forgeries, alterations, proofs, editions, states, provenance, how to research the works of famous artists, and offers a plethora of practical tips. Director of Center for Artifact Studies, Cycleback is widely recognized as one the world's leading authorities on prints and photographs authentication.
How to Identify Prints
Author: Bamber GascoignePublisher:
ISBN: 9780500284803
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Arranged in self-contained sections the book simplifies accurate identification of any printed image. Included are manual methods, and also the mechanical processes that constitute the vast majority of printed images. Essential aspects of printing history and the printmaking craft are covered and examples are given of the identifying features that help to reveal the type of print.
Currier & Ives
Author: Frederic Arthur ConninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lithographers
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Old Master Prints and Drawings
Author: Carlo JamesPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9789053562437
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
This long awaited English edition of Manuale per la conservazione e il restauro di disegni e stampe antichi (1991) offers a clear and complete manual for the preservation and conservation of old master prints and drawings. The authors throw light on the historical and scientific backgrounds concerning the problems of restoration techniques of arts on paper, from 1150, when paper was first introduced in Europe, until the middle of the nineteenth century. The book is indispensable for anyone occupied with the study and conservation of old prints and drawings. This richly illustrated, first English edition is revised and brought fully up to date.
Chats on Old Prints (1906)
Author: Arthur HaydenPublisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781104080792
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Care and Identification of 19th-century Photographic Prints
Author: James M. ReillyPublisher: Kodak
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
History of 19th-century printing, plus how to identify types of prints, deterioration, collection management, storage, handling and display.
The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper
Author: Max SchweidlerPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892368358
Category : Books
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
The Birds of America
Author: John James AudubonPublisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780565093396
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
'Birds of America' is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also one of the most valuable - a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for 7.3 million, which is a world record.
Author: Bamber Gascoigne