Treatment Examples Blog

Goya with tape & matburn

Aun Podrán Servir (They can still be of use) by Francisco de Goya, Plate 24 from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) 

Drawn and etched about 1810–14; published 1863; Printing ink on wove paper

Surface cleaned (dry) to reduce grime. Mechanically reduced pressure sensitive tape and residual adhesive as possible. Reduced discoloration by bathing and selective application of solutions to reduce the matburn.  

PaperDawn Heller