Help with engraving

[jtw1313]

Can anyone help with age and info on this? I have never come across a picture using this weird paste to hold it in the frame and not nails..........I think it’s etched resin but not totally sure

 

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[GoldieLocks]

It is wood block inked and then hand painted. It may have some value. Look for a specialist in wood cut works from the 1800-1900's. I would say, 1909-1934?

 

[jtw1313]

It is not on paper

 

[Red-Coat]

Hi James. As per our exchange of private messages, these would be my thoughts.

The original artist was Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778). He made sketches during his travels in Italy in the mid-1740s from which a series of engraved plates were made and published as a collection in 1748 under the title “Antichita Romane de’ Tempi della Republica e de’ primi Imperatori”. The original plates were used to produce several re-issues during his lifetime and, sometime after 1761, the work was re-titled to “Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte de quali se veggono in Roma e parte l’Italia”. The originals are regarded as masterpieces and were often removed from their publications for individual framing. Those would be on paper of course, and in monochrome.

I would assume yours is a later copy of that plate. It doesn’t have the quality feel that would be expected from a later print using the original plate (even if someone has hand-tinted it at a later time).

It’s difficult to say what your work has been printed on without having it in hand. I have seen what are sometimes called ‘resin prints’ but those usually have multiple layers of pigment from successive applications to give a luminous, almost three-dimensional, quality. There’s also a (relatively modern) epoxy product called “Art Resin” that can be poured onto painted/printed wood, canvas or paper and hardens to a protective surface which obviates the need for framing with glass and also protects against fading.

 

[jtw1313]

Thank you redcoat

This large plate is what it is engraved in