Happy New Year all! A new year, a new book for this wonderful forum. This time a description of the world, written by Cornelius Hazart (1617 -...
If you like documentaries about old books, I can advice this one as well. It is about Stephen Fry trying to recreate the Gutenberg printing press....
Thank you for sharing! It reminds me of a book in my collection where the leather cover is missing, but further is completely intact. I use to...
Oeh some of them look misleadingly old. [ATTACH] Original from Biblia Regia (1571). Nicholas le Bé, Troyes. [ATTACH]
As far as I understand from this website the brand name ARCHES is used from 1826. https://arches-papers.com/who-is-arches/history-arches/
The Phrygian hat has a fascinating history! [ATTACH]
Wow, what a find. The watermark seems too modern for a 17th century etching or copper engraving. For watermarks I always try to find one in...
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...
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