Paint over Print

Hand-Colored Books and Maps of the Early Modern Period
  • Schedule
Paint over print image of partially colored Ptolemy map
Paint over print image of partially colored Ptolemy map

Thursday, February 19 and Friday, February 20, 2015

This conference brings together scholars to consider different aspects of hand-colored books and printed maps from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries: the materials and techniques used; the aesthetics of hand coloring; how color alters the meaning of the work in question; and how the addition of color represents an interpretation or reinterpretation of the work. 

Paint over Print is organized by Chet Van Duzer, Independent Scholar, and Larry E. Tise, East Carolina University. The conference is sponsored by the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries; the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania; the Workshop in the History of Material Texts, University of Pennsylvania; and the Conservation Center for Historic Art & Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA

Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, sixth floor
3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Saturday and Sunday, by prior arrangement (215.898.7088 or kislak@pobox.upenn.edu)
Free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance).

  • Thursday, February 19

    8:30-2:30 Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

    8:30 am:  Registration

    9:00-9:30: Welcome
    Lynne Farrington, Curator of Printed Books, Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania

    Paint over Print: Challenges & Concepts
    Larry E. Tise and Chet Van Duzer, conference organizers

    9:30-10:15: 'To Give a Strong and Pleasing Effect': Hand-Coloring in Historical Context
    David Bosse, Historic Deerfield

    10:15-10:30: Coffee break

    10:30-11:15: Colored as its Creators Intended: Painted Maps in the 1513 Edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography' 
    Chet Van Duzer, Independent Scholar

    11:15-12:00: Collecting Color—A View from the Trenches 
    William C. Wooldridge, Suffolk, Virginia, author of Mapping Virginia (2012)

    12:00-1:45: Lunch break (on your own)

    1:45-2:30: Authenticity and Authorship in Early Modern Colored Maps
    Stephanie Stillo, Washington and Lee University

    3:00-6:00: McNeil Center for Early American Studies University of Pennsylvania

    3:00-4:30: Welcome & Introduction
    Daniel K. Richter, Director McNeil Center for Early American Studies

    'An Ocean of Rumors': News from the Atlantic World
    Michiel van Groesen, University of Amsterdam

    4:30-5:00: Break

    5:00-6:00: Detecting Fakes and Forgeries in the Market for Hand-colored Books, Maps, and Prints
    Graham Arader, Arader Galleries, New York, NY

    6:00-7:00 Reception

    Please note: Conference attendees are invited to a special exhibition of "Paint over Print" materials assembled by curators Lynne Farrington and John Pollack in the Lea Library of the Kislak Center on both Thursday and Friday.

  • Friday, February 20

    9:00-11:45: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

    9:00-9:45: Theodor de Bry and Sons, Master Engravers and Printers for the Hand-Colored Book Market
    Michiel van Groesen, University of Amsterdam

    9:45-10:30: America's First 'Coloring Book': Theodor de Bry's 1590 edition of Thomas Harriot's Briefe & True Report from the New-Found Land of Virginia
    Larry E. Tise, East Carolina University

    10:30-10:45: Coffee break

    10:45-11:30: 'Not Just for Ornament': Transparent Liquid Colors for Maps & Plans
    Joan Irving, Paper Conservator, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, Wilmington, Delaware

    11:30-11:45: Additional questions and answers

    11:45-1:00: Lunch break (on your own) 

    1:00-2:30: Conservation Center for Historic Art & Artifacts

    1:00-2:30:  Tour and Conversations with Conservators
    Laura Hortz Stanton, Executive Director
    Stephanie Bailey, Education Program Manager

    2:30-3:00: Break

    3:00-5:00: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
     

    3:00-4:00:  Hand-Colored Herbals
    Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania

    4:00-5:00:  Paint over Print: Prospects for the Future
    Conference speakers' roundtable

    Please note: Conference attendees are invited to a special exhibition of "Paint over Print" materials assembled by curators Lynne Farrington and John Pollack in the Lea Library of the Kislak Center on both Thursday and Friday.

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