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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9744461, member: 79705&quot;]Identity or provenance is more likely to be established with things like notations on the back of the piece. You have no labels or notes on the backing to help, and you can keep the old bits if you like, but art has to occasionally go through maintenance to preserve it in general.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are concerned you could have a professional framer remove it. That backing is certainly not 19th century, so would not be original to a 19th c piece. It&#039;s also backed by what looks like a composite paper/chip board and those are full of acid, so a terrible thing to keep up against a drawing in general. If you want to do removal yourself, you use a blade to cut the tape, and pliers to pull the staples/tacks/nails. I would then advise a pro framer put it back together for you with UV-resistant glass, spacers, acid-free tape around the frame, and acid-free backing to preserve it.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t look like Rosetti&#039;s or pre-Raphaelite work to me. Was there an example that you thought was similar?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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