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Title Of Article Chaper
Papermakers' Humpen: a note on 17th and 18th century central European craft depictions on glass
Title Of Journal Book
The paper conservator
Volume
7
Pages
35-43
Collation
3 color plates
Language Of Text
English
Language Of Summary
French
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
This group of Humpen (large cylindrical drinking beakers with lids) bears lively depictions of papermakers at work. These important historical documents add to the relatively small corpus of illustrations of European papermaking prior to the proliferation of technical literature in the 18th century.
Keywords
papermaking history illustratio ns;Depictions;Methods AATA
pub_id
37551