Comments on: Royal Propaganda, from Prints to Pixels http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/royal-propaganda-from-prints-to-pixels/ The online magazine of the Getty Wed, 22 May 2013 18:32:39 +0000 hourly 1 By: Errol |Bryant http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/royal-propaganda-from-prints-to-pixels/#comment-695 Errol |Bryant Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:19:20 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=949#comment-695 Hello John. Thank you for your reply- and please thank Christina for her assistance in clearing up the 'Granicus' issue of the two end image sections on one sheet- it is even more interesting to learn that they were prepared on the same plate. I had only recently acquired my set of the Audran and Edelinck engravings and it was the most incredible coincidence to me whilst researching more online to come across news of the Getty exhibition. Thank heavens for the internet! I have now ordered the catalogue and look forward to getting all the information I was seeking online! I feel very lucky to have been able to acquire what is an 'almost' complete set! Maybe there is someone out there with two very thin engravings wondering where the rest of their picture is! Kindest Regards Errol. Hello John.
Thank you for your reply- and please thank Christina for her assistance in clearing up the ‘Granicus’ issue of the two end image sections on one sheet- it is even more interesting to learn that they were prepared on the same plate. I had only recently acquired my set of the Audran and Edelinck engravings and it was the most incredible coincidence to me whilst researching more online to come across news of the Getty exhibition. Thank heavens for the internet!
I have now ordered the catalogue and look forward to getting all the information I was seeking online!
I feel very lucky to have been able to acquire what is an ‘almost’ complete set! Maybe there is someone out there with two very thin engravings wondering where the rest of their picture is!
Kindest Regards
Errol.

]]> By: John Hicks http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/royal-propaganda-from-prints-to-pixels/#comment-629 John Hicks Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:22:04 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=949#comment-629 Hi Errol, I brought your question to Louis Marchesano, the curator of the exhibition, and his research assistant Christina Aube who also worked on the exhibition and contributed to the catalog. Here is what Christina says: "Thank you very much for your comment. Yes, the two end sheets of Audran's <em>Crossing of the Granicus</em> were printed on one sheet of paper. Based upon examination of two such impressions, it appears that they were printed from a single copperplate. The Getty Research Institute's <em>Crossing of the Granicus</em> was trimmed inside the platemark by an early collector and exists in two sections (one comprised of the left two sheets adhered together; the other of the two right sheets). For the exhibition, these two sections were framed together in order to display the print in its entirety." I hope that answers your question. All of us here are very pleased that you find this material as compelling as we do. It's very curious, the way in which large-scale printmaking persists as an artistic and technical challenge across the centuries. Thanks for reading, John Hi Errol,
I brought your question to Louis Marchesano, the curator of the exhibition, and his research assistant Christina Aube who also worked on the exhibition and contributed to the catalog. Here is what Christina says:

“Thank you very much for your comment. Yes, the two end sheets of Audran’s Crossing of the Granicus were printed on one sheet of paper. Based upon examination of two such impressions, it appears that they were printed from a single copperplate. The Getty Research Institute’s Crossing of the Granicus was trimmed inside the platemark by an early collector and exists in two sections (one comprised of the left two sheets adhered together; the other of the two right sheets). For the exhibition, these two sections were framed together in order to display the print in its entirety.”

I hope that answers your question. All of us here are very pleased that you find this material as compelling as we do. It’s very curious, the way in which large-scale printmaking persists as an artistic and technical challenge across the centuries.

Thanks for reading,
John

]]> By: Tyson Gaskill http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/royal-propaganda-from-prints-to-pixels/#comment-616 Tyson Gaskill Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:01:51 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=949#comment-616 Alright John and Jobe, you guys rock! So happy to see you getting your due. Great work!!! Alright John and Jobe, you guys rock! So happy to see you getting your due. Great work!!!

]]> By: Errol |Bryant http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/royal-propaganda-from-prints-to-pixels/#comment-526 Errol |Bryant Fri, 28 May 2010 12:26:53 +0000 http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/?p=949#comment-526 It is so exciting to see the work you have done to bring this exhibition together. I live in England and only wish I could get to see the exhibition in person. As it so happens, I have the Audran and Edelinck engravings (the Alexander the Great suite) in my own collection, with one plate missing, i.e. I have 14 sheets/plates. I assume that originally the missing sheet had the 2 narrow end panels that form the Granicus picture, on the single sheet? (I only have the two centre plates for this picture, otherwise I have all the other plates from the collection.) My collection of engravings were bound into a hard folder, so they benefited from never really having been exposed to the light, and thus are in very good condition, with a bright clean contrast in the print, with only two small cases of foxing about 1cm wide. There is no discoloration in the paper. Is is possible for you to confirm that the two end plates for the Granicus picture were indeed printed on a single sheet? There is often confusion as to the collection being 15 or 16 plates. As I see it, it must be 16 plates but on 15 sheets.?? I love the huge version your staff had printed for the exhibition- if only the original engravings could have been that size! (ironically, I have myself developed a process for making very large images in limited editions, very similar in size to the work of Frank Stella, when he worked at the Tyler Graphics Studio in New York.) I love these particular engravings that Audran and Edelinck created- I regard them as the best engraving work ever produced. Kindest Regards, Errol Bryant. It is so exciting to see the work you have done to bring this exhibition together. I live in England and only wish I could get to see the exhibition in person.
As it so happens, I have the Audran and Edelinck engravings (the Alexander the Great suite) in my own collection, with one plate missing, i.e. I have 14 sheets/plates. I assume that originally the missing sheet had the 2 narrow end panels that form the Granicus picture, on the single sheet? (I only have the two centre plates for this picture, otherwise I have all the other plates from the collection.) My collection of engravings were bound into a hard folder, so they benefited from never really having been exposed to the light, and thus are in very good condition, with a bright clean contrast in the print, with only two small cases of foxing about 1cm wide. There is no discoloration in the paper.
Is is possible for you to confirm that the two end plates for the Granicus picture were indeed printed on a single sheet? There is often confusion as to the collection being 15 or 16 plates. As I see it, it must be 16 plates but on 15 sheets.??
I love the huge version your staff had printed for the exhibition- if only the original engravings could have been that size!
(ironically, I have myself developed a process for making very large images in limited editions, very similar in size to the work of Frank Stella, when he worked at the Tyler Graphics Studio in New York.)
I love these particular engravings that Audran and Edelinck created- I regard them as the best engraving work ever produced.
Kindest Regards,
Errol Bryant.

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