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Antique Prints Blog: May 2013
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013. St Louis Mercantile Library. Earlier this month I attended for the first time the St. Louis Fine Print, Rare Book and Paper Arts Fair. We have exhibited there for all 8 years of its existence, but it was always my partner, Don Cresswell, who attended. This year it made more sense for me to go, which I was pleased about as I had never really spent any time in St. Louis. The Mercantile Library has moved several times-—it is now housed at the University of Missouri-St. Lou...The col...
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Scarcity of antique prints | Antique Prints Blog
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Just another WordPress.com weblog. Scarcity of antique prints. We get a lot of questions and comments concerning the scarcity of particular prints. This is often spurred by the fact that someone has done a search for a print on the internet and did not find it listed anywhere. This tends to lead to a conclusion that the print must be extremely rare and therefore it must also be valuable. So how can you tell how rare a particular print is? The answer is sometimes yes. Probably the best way to start is...
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Antique Prints Blog: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015. America as an Indian Woman. We just acquired a late eighteenth-century, French print, “L’Amerique,” representing America as a handsome Indian woman. The image is very Europeanized, with classical features, the only exotic aspect being the feathered headdress with the sun symbol on the front. The 18th century was a time when allegories were popular and the use of an Indian figures to represent America was quite common, indicating that this was universally understood by those ...
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Antique Prints Blog: Maps of Ireland and the Black Irish
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Friday, March 13, 2015. Maps of Ireland and the Black Irish. The term “Black Irish” is usually used to describe Irish who have dark features, black hair and dark eyes (in contrast to the more “typical” stereotype of the fair skinned, blue eyed and blond or red headed Irish). The Black Irish are generally found in western Ireland. There are a number of explanations of the origin of the Black Irish, but my favorite has to do with maps! So why did the Spanish turn south too soon? In any case, by the end of ...
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Antique Prints Blog: April 2015
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. THE SEARCH FOR EL DORADO. Of all the legends relating to America, perhaps the most recognizable myth concerns “the search for El Dorado.” While this phrase is very familiar, the actual story behind the hunt of El Dorado is not. This myth is one of my particular favorites, for it has all the elements of a great story—-mystery, riches, adventures, madness, deaths- and to my delight, maps. The lake and its golden city continued to appear in the seventeenth century, changing shape an...
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Rachel E Heberling: Transmissions Through the Ether: August 2013
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Rachel E Heberling's Transmissions Through the Ether: An artist's blog about beloved obsolescence. Saturday, August 31, 2013. American Historical Print Collectors Society Newsletter. My friend Jackie Penny, who is the Newsletter Editor for AHPCS. Was kind enough to do an interview with me via email while I was in St Louis this summer. I met her in May at their annual conference in Cincinnati, when she had the idea to do a section on a practicing printmaker. Lucky me- we got a full 2-page spread! And I, w...
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Rachel E Heberling: Transmissions Through the Ether: May 2013
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Rachel E Heberling's Transmissions Through the Ether: An artist's blog about beloved obsolescence. Friday, May 24, 2013. Historical Print Collectors' Conference and Visit to Northern Kentucky U. I was lucky to attend the American Historical Print Collectors Society ( AHPCS. For their 38th Annual Meeting, first time in Cincy. Thanks to the generosity of our local print collector and enthusiast, Allen Bernard, and several foundations, a few other folks and I were able to go on scholarship. Now onto day 2 o...
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American Historical Print Collectors Society | Antique Prints Blog
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Just another WordPress.com weblog. American Historical Print Collectors Society. A scholarly journal which contains excellent articles on a wide variety of topics, as well as book reviews on print references. The AHPCS would like its membership to grow, and certainly anyone interested in antique prints will get great value from a membership. I strongly encourage everyone who is not already a member to sign up. You can find out more about the AHPCS on their web site at www.ahpcs.org. You are commenting us...
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Antique Prints Blog: 20th Century Pictorial Maps
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Monday, May 11, 2015. 20th Century Pictorial Maps. Maps have long had a pictorial element to them. Maps can, of course, be fairly “cartographic” in appearance, using lines, dots, contour lines, and other symbols, but for centuries other maps have been more illustratively graphic. A new type of pictorial map, though, made its appearance about the second decade of the 20th century. These pictorial maps added a pictographic element to the underlying cartographic rendering, adding a visual narrative onto...
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Antique Prints Blog: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Meat Extract and Chromolithography. A rather unusual juxtaposition of subjects, but one which is delightfully represented in a set of six cards issued by the Liebig Meat Extract Company in the late nineteenth century. Card 1: The first card shows the artist composing the subject in his studio. He is drawing a water color onto a sheet of paper, carefully working on an image of the exact size of the intended print. The portrait of Liebig is printed in gold and yellow and is...Card ...
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