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New Bedford Whaling Museum Blog. Panorama Conservation Project Reveals Hidden Content. July 22, 2015. One of the great treasures of the New Bedford Whaling Museum collection, Caleb P. Purrington and Benjamin Russell’s 1848 painting, Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage Round the World. Conservator Jordan Berson at work with a dahlia sprayer humidifying the cotton substrate and fixing the pigments in place. The Panorama unrolled to the section showing Horta, Fayal in the Azores. This section of the painting...
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WallpaperScholar.Com: Gilt Leather Installation: The Metlife Boardroom
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Gilt Leather Installation: The Metlife Boardroom. 1 “Dragon” pattern, contemporary gilded leather (Lutson Goudleder). A WALLPAPER (OK, LEATHER) CASE STUDY BY ROBERT M. KELLY. This post is about a leather installation for the Metlife Insurance Company which included the lamination, trimming and installation of over 400 panels of embossed, gilded and painted leather. But first, I want to mention the flurry of posts in the Wallpaper History Group on LinkedIn. While this connection has yet to be explored, it...