I have got a lot more copper engravings and woodcuts in my collection about Christmas and Epiphany. Feel free to use them if you want....
The earlier the paper, the better the paper quality is my experience. Years ago I bought a stack of cardboard displays with fragments of a very...
I wish all the members here happy holidays! Although this a book illustration, I think this is a real art piece, so I put it on this forum. It is...
For me it is very difficult to determine the kind of paper, by just a few photographs. Also here it is very helpful to shine a bright light behind...
A very high quality copper engraving! Nice!
Yes I just made this photo. https://www.antiquers.com/threads/missale-romanum-roman-missal-plantin-1574.54325/
66 I believe. Some of them are very small. It is fascinating to compare those reprints with the original. On the left the modern version. On the...
Very nice. I really like old artworks that are stylistic Renaissance or Baroque. Although I try to collect originals I sometimes buy prints from...
The structure of the paper seems off to me, if I am honest. I am curious how the paper looks when you shine a bright light behind it. this is...
I found your print in the Boymans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam. https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/35045/veduta-dell-arco-di-tito
It depends on what you call genuine. Your example could be a later print made with the original copper plate. Would you consider that as genuine?...
It doesn't ring any alarm bells to me. The laid lines should look like this when you shine a bright light behind it. Maybe your print has a water...
I wish I had the opportunity to have formal study about my books, but in my area of the Netherlands is no formal training about early modern...
Thank you for your kind words. The fragments are made of parchment, not paper. That is why they are recycled several times.
As you see these sheets had multiple usages: 1. The skin of an animal 2. A manuscript 3. A frisket sheet 4. Book reinforcement. That is a...
As several of you know one of my interests is the old book as a historical object. Sometimes I can completely nerd out as a book collector. This...
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I see you have bought your drawing from Marktplaats, so we can assume JP Gentenaar is not someone from South Africa or the US. I tried to search...
I read the same. J. P. Gentenaar. The same watermark i found in a manuscript in my collection from 1725. I expect the binding a bit older than...
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