First, be sure what you have and its potential value. If worth it, contact a paper conservator. Washing paper, particularly a large piece, is not...
The credit line on the bottom makes it clear, but I was going on the two signatures. The upper one appears to have been signed in the original...
Bolo tie slide?
Rather than mat burn, 2manycats (personal communication) suggests that the darker color around the lower edge was the actual original color of the...
The framer made the cutout in the mat so that the pencil signature would be visible. Not an uncommon technique. It looks like the artwork has...
Looks like it may be based on Heinrich Hofmann's 1886 painting of "Christ in Gethsemane", which has been reproduced in innumerable versions: [IMG]...
My best guess is that it was made in Mexico, fairly recently (1970's and forward), and possibly loosely inspired by Mayan imagery.
Welcome @deb krebs, Unfortunately your photo is too blurry for us to see the necessary details. We will want to see more than one view - sides,...
I agree. Based on your new photos, it looks like ivory. And the wood is probably ebony. The style of the figures looks East African to me. The...
I suspect it is just a decorative, generic "tribal" thing.
Depending on where you are located, you might talk with The Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, New York....
When a small sink hole started opening up in our yard we took the opportunity to fill it with hopeless books.......:oops::rolleyes:
Bamber Gascoigne describes the use of stipple patterns to provide shading on commercial color lithographs (chromolithographs), noting that "The...
Yes, the most inclusive description. A variety of techniques were often used on the same print.
I have not seen one of these before, and as a non-traditional form it is more difficult to identify. Can you tell if the white flecks we can see...
In the aquatint example I posted, I see a variety of irregular forms, but I am not wedded to the idea.
The effect can vary with the type of resistant material used, and how it was applied. But it would be helpful to see the entire image, the type of...
I believe it is a type of copperplate print, as @antidiem has said, using an aquatint ground. This way of preparing the plate produces the...
The colors, the fine weave, and the small design elements in the stripes remind me of Aymara textiles from Bolivia. Perhaps part of a poncho or...
It is a well made basket. My guess is that it is from southern Africa, but I am not sure. The spaced, overcast stitching is used in baskets from...
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