Conserving Dürer's Triumphal Arch Print

[erik1925]

With some discussion in the Mid Auction thread about backing, conserving and restoration of larger sized posters (or works on paper), I found this clip interesting and a relevant, in that this 16th C woodcut print by Durer measures 4 square meters (10x12 feet), and had been mounted to an old backing.

The British Museum, which owns it, shows how they cleaned, unmounted it from the old backing, washed the various panels and then conserved it. The results were like night and day.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphal_Arch_(woodcut)

Another copy (printed in 1799 and originally bound in a portfolio edition), here in the US:

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