Research Catalog

Title

Northern European metalpoint drawings : technical examination and analysis / Joanna Russell, Judith Rayner and Jenny Bescoby.

Author

Russell, Joanna (Joanna Elizabeth)

Publication

• London : Archetype Publications, in association with The British Museum, 2017.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rayner, Judith
• Bescoby, Jenny

Description

ix, 90 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, charts; 30 cm

Summary

This publication is the result of a project of technical examination on metalpoint drawings which was undertaken in preparation for the exhibition Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns. In this volume we report the results of the examination of thirty metalpoint drawings in the British Museum's collection from Germany and the Low Countries dating from the 15th to 17th centuries. This research builds on the work done for an earlier project, published in Italian Renaissance Drawings: Technical Examination and Analysis. The research methodology used combines techniques of visual examination, technical imaging and chemical analysis in order to understand drawing techniques and the use of materials. In some cases curators had particular questions that might be further investigated through this research. The results are fully documented here and it is hoped that this will form a useful reference in the future, as comparative information in the examination of drawings in other collections.

Subject

• British Museum > Exhibitions
• British Museum
• Association Mitteleuropa
• Metalpoint drawing > Exhibitions
• Drawing, European > History > Exhibitions
• Drawing > Technique > History > Exhibitions
• Drawing, European
• Drawing > Technique
• Metalpoint drawing
• Silberstiftzeichnung
• Westeuropa

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs
• History
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Hugo Chapman -- Masters of metalpoint in northern Europe / Giulia Bartrum and An Van Camp -- Methodology / Joanna Russel, Judith Rayner and Jenny Bescoby -- Raking light -- Transmitted light -- Microscopy -- Technical imaging -- Visible imaging -- Infrared imaging -- Ultraviolet imaging -- Reflectance transformation imaging -- Chemical analysis -- X-ray fluorescence -- Raman spectroscopy -- Technical examination and analysis / Joanna Russell, Judith Rayner and Jenny Bescoby -- Introduction -- The drawings -- Supports -- Grounds -- Metalpoints -- Blind stylus -- Other media and techniques -- Case studies -- Drawings associated with Rogier van der Weyden -- Drawings by Albrecht Dürer -- Drawings by Hendrick Goltzius -- Conclusion -- Summary of results of visual examination and analysis -- Appendix 1 -- Table 1 list of drawings examined -- Table 2 chemical definitions of terms used -- Appendix 2 experimental and methodological details.

ISBN

• 9781909492424
• 1909492426

OCLC

• ocn946478375
• 946478375
• SCSB-8857599

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library