brittle paper

Structure is essential – the conservation of albums

March 21, 2018 · 0 comments

in Conservation,Digitisation,NLI Staff,Prints & Drawings

Post by Claire Dantin, Conservation intern 2016-17 (NLI’s conservation internship programme is jointly run with the Heritage Council) For a conservator, understanding the original materials of an item before any conservation treatment is essential. I recently conserved 4 albums containing beautiful prints and drawings of Irish castles by James Stark Fleming (1834-1922), a Scottish watercolour artists […]

Tagged as: antiquarian, brittle paper, Conservation, conservation binding, conservation of albums, Heritage Council intern, Irish castles, James Stark Fleming, National Library of Ireland, Prints & Drawings

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