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Secrets in the fibres: Mezzotint Prints and Dublin Paper Trade in the 18th Century

June 30, 2015 · 2 comments

in Collections,Conservation,Guest Bloggers,NLI Staff,Prints & Drawings,Research

Dr. Neassa Doherty (Volunteer NLI Prints & Drawings Dept., 2012 & PhD Graduate, NUIG, 2015) & Louise O’Connor (NLI Conservation Dept.) In 1742, the Dublin engraver and printseller, John Brooks, advertised that a mezzotint print of Hugh Boulter would be printed on “superfine Royal Irish Paper” (see fig. 1). Brooks’ claim to use Irish paper for […]

Tagged as: Dublin Group, Francis Bindon, Hugh Boulter, irish paper, Irish paper industry, James McArdell, john Armstrong, John Brooks, Louise O'Connor, mezzotint, Neassa Doherty, Paper Mills, Papermakers, Papermaking, Portraits, Printmaking, Royal Dublin Society, Samuel Madden, Strasburg bend and lily, watermarks

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The Clean Sweep – It’s the Final Countdown!

October 6, 2011 · 1 comment

in Collections,Conservation,Projects,Rare books

by Nikki Ralston, Conservation Back in July 2011, I posted a short blog introducing The Clean Sweep, a preservation project aiming to clean and box our rare book collections. We have now started the final phase of the project, which will run to the end of 2011, and I thought that readers might be interested […]

Tagged as: Books, British Museum, Charles Mackay, Clean Sweep, Cleaning, Conservation, Dr. Jaspar Robert Joly, Geoffrey Gambado, Joly Collection, Nikki Ralston, Projects, R.D.S., Rare book team, Rare books, René Descartes, Royal Dublin Society, Tours, Trustees' Room, Watts Phillips

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