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The Art and Science of the Conservation of Prints
13 July 2025
Introduction The conservation and restoration treatment of prints can breathe new life into artworks that have been worn by the passage of time. Drawing on ...
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Achieving Maximum Value from the Condition of Banksy Prints
29 September 2020
The market for limited edition and signed, original screenprints by the artist Banksy continues to see rapidly rising prices. The value of an individual print, ...
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Conserving a record of Harrogate’s link to the Russian royal family
31 July 2020
A project supported by a grant from the National Manuscript Conservation Trust Since it’s foundation thirty years ago the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust (NMCT) have ...
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From Fantastic Mr Fox to Fake Banknotes for a Gin Distillery…
10 May 2020
Archival replicas of documents, deeds and manuscripts for museums A facsimile (from Latin fac simile, “to make alike”) is a copy or reproduction of an ...
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Conservation of the Orton & Spooner Collection for the National Fairground and Circus Archive
20 April 2020
The Orton and Spooner Collection is part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive, housed at the University of Sheffield. Based in Burton upon Trent, ...
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Opportunities to fund the preservation and conservation of paper-based art and archives
3 November 2019
Do you have a conservation project in mind for an individual or group of artworks, a manuscript or archive from your collection? Finding the funding to ...
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Velcro, magnets and fishing line…
6 June 2019
How would you usually expect to see art on paper displayed in a gallery? The answer, of course, is with a bevelled mount within a ...
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Step by step conservation of an 18th century watercolour
8 December 2017
The Restoration of an Early English Watercolour by Francis Nicholson of Old Malton Manor and Church, Yorkshire. The late 18th and early 19th century is ...
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Caring for limited edition aviation, military and other off-set lithographic prints
3 January 2017
I often get enquiries from enthusiastic collectors of printed reproductions of paintings on aviation, military, motorsports and similar subjects. These are usually printed in limited, ...
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Caring for Prints
2 February 2016
A blog for The Hepworth Wakefield’s Print Fair March 5th and 6th 2016 Buying original prints offers a wonderful way to enjoy affordable works of ...
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New Plastazote, archival book supports available from Artworks Conservation
3 November 2015
Fig. 1 A volume from The Gott Collection on a Plastazote® book support system For many years I have been making book cradles and supports ...
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Revealing the River Roch
27 July 2015
Many of the watercolours and drawings I am asked to conserve for museums and galleries are by amateur artists from the 18th to the early ...
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