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
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.