Fine Art Restoration - Case Studies - Page 1

Here are some examples of art restoration projects: View page 2 restoration projects here


A steel engraving on extremely thin and brittle "India" paper that had been folded, split, torn and holed.	It was possible to remove the fragile surface paper and remount on to thin Museum board. Some facsimile retouching.

A typical "watercolour challenge", with an extensive selection of fox-marks, some causing acidic fading of blues.	The sky looking good again after routine treatment, with the missing blues retouched on the roof and foreground water.

Marine watercolour. The fresh cool quality of this dramatic subject was rather lost under a hail of fox-marks.	It required individual cleaning to each spot, so quite a labour intensive task, but a worthwhile result.

A charming pencil portrait which had probably been left squashed in a drawer for years, with some fox marks.	Some mild bleaching, fully neutralised, followed by "drumming" on to Japanese paper, got it flat again.

This 'foxy' lady had picked up some very off-putting spots somewhere along the line. Sepia watercolour, 1939.	Each damp-spot had to be cleaned individually. Sepia colour would not permit overall bleaching, so time consuming.

A watercolour of smoking steamships, but also with an ugly dark water-stain from top left to bottom right.	Repeated treatments were needed to eliminate the stain completely - a satisfying transformation.

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