Writing colour into the history of printing in the West, 1400-1920. Led by @leusavage. Social media by @gemma_cornetti. #printingcolour
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Love the #printingcolour in cardinal red!
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#printingcolour in Paris in 1599, using a #frisket sheet to mask off the block for two impressions!
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#printingcolour in 1706/7
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#printingcolour, 1513. In the first book printed in any African language!
#printingcolour 1503
Horizontal and vertical branches of the cross in Hrananus Muarus’s ‘De Laudibus Sanctaen Crucis’ giving a palindrome ‘ORO TE RAMUS ARAM ARA SUMAR ET ORO’
(‘I pray, O cross and altar, to be saved through you’)
First ever printed edition of the work from 1503.
#PalindromeDay
#printingcolour on fabric in the 18th century!
#printingcolour with a #frisket sheet in 1581 England! With a 16th-century ‘whiteboard’ tablet!
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#printingcolour with a #frisket sheet in 1638 😍
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Rose des Peintres (Tribu des Cent-feuilles)"
Copper etching of a Centifolia-Rose printed in color and hand-finished by Vistoafter the painting by Annica Bricogne lovelyantiqueprints.com/prod…
An eye-popping example of #printingcolour in the 18th century (?): the eyes have it! #alapoupee
Interesting colour etching in reddish brown but the eyes are coloured in dark grey in a’ la poupee from what I can tell #printingcolour
#printingcolour vs wax-injected human body parts? Sounds like an easy decision to me.
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Together with @leusavage and a team of scientists, I published an article on the European Phyics Journal Plus! Describing a previously unknown color print ..
link.springer.com/article/10…
#printingcolour unique (proof?) state of 16C Italian chiaroscuro woodcut frieze!
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Even after nearly 4 years, I still have to pinch myself that part of my actual job is to watch our conservators working on our paintings. Here, Paul is working on a painting by Van Dyck which is so large, it has to be on its side up in the studio!
ALT A conservator working on a painting by Van Dyck
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This THURSDAY come & hear @Gemma_Cornetti present on "The Use of Images as Historical Evidence. Numismatic Books and Single-Leaf Portrait Prints in Sixteenth-Century Italy". It's our last seminar of the year! There will be wine 🍷😎#twitterstorians history.ac.uk/events/event/1…
Tico Seifert discusses the 37 (!) red impressions of Rembrandt at @Olenka_prints’s Rembrandt workshop @Warburg_News & @britishmuseum #printingcolour
#printingcolour with a #frisket sheet in early modern England. The sun and coat of arms are typical, but I can’t explain thr top half of the mast.
This beautifully illustrated edition of William Bourne’s ‘A Regiment for the Sea’ (1592) was owned by Gabriel Harvey who has written a note that it is “the most sensible and familiar analysis of the sea-card that ever yet cam in print”
explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-AL…
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This 18th C #Burmese translation of Christian prayers was published in Rome with a #Latin title (Preces Christianae). The printers, Propaganda Fide, aimed to promote Catholicism around the world.
Fully #digitised in #IIIF: bit.ly/2TZlWAh
#AtoUnknown @BLAsia_Africa
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