20784
Accession Number
25980
Author
Hendriks, Klaus B.; Dobrusskin, Sebastian
Editor
Grimstad, Kirsten
Author Affiliation
National Archives of Canada
Title Of Article Chaper
The conservation of painted photographs
Title Of Journal Book
ICOM Committee for Conservation, 9th triennial meeting, Dresden, German Democratic Republic, 26-31 August 1990: preprints
Pages
249-254
Collation
12 figs., 6 tables
Reference Bibliography
14 refs.
Publisher
ICOM Committee for Conservation
Publisher City
Paris
ISBN
0-89236-185-9
Language Of Text
English
Language Of Summary
English
Literature Type
Monograph : Proceedings
Literature Level
Analytic
Meeting
ICOM Committee for Conservation. Meeting
Abstract
The conservation of painted photographs has to consider those factors relating to the photographic properties of the image as well as those conditions that can be dealt with by conventional fine art conservation techniques. The restoration of three painted photographs from the collection of the Höhere Graphische Bundeslehr-und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna, dating from 1854 to 1900, is described. The treatments include inpainting, surface cleaning, consolidation treatments, and matting. In addition to the conservation treatments, an accelerated aging test is described, which was conducted in order to find suitable retouching media for silver-containing photographic images on paper. The results of this investigation were used in the above-mentioned restoration treatments.
Keywords
polychrome; photographs; photographs; inpainting; cleaning; consolidation; matting; accelerated aging; retouching; silver
pub_id
20784