[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Does the drain outline skip over l? This would be a good argument that the drain was drawn after the text had been put on the page.

The bottom outline of the drain has two parts that do not quite meet. The main part (1) starts a tad inside the loop of the l and goes down and east. The ink is medium brown.  Then there is (2) a straight stroke that starts at the west edge of the pool and goes down an slightly east until the upper stroke of the l. The ink is dark brown, like that used by the Boobs Retracer.

The l itself is the same shade of dark brown, so I assume it was retraced at the same time as the (2) part of the drain.  Thus the overlaps on the l do not say whether the drain was original or not. Where the (1) part crosses the l, the latter seems to run over the (1) stroke.

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To further confuse the matters, there seems to be a very faint bit of trace inside the loop of the l, connecting (1) to (2).  But it is fainter than the original outline of the pool ((M) on the annotated pic) and it could be just one of the spots of the blank vellum.

By the way, I now suspect that the pool may in fact have had a double outline all around. The part in on the front (south) side of this double outline is now obscured and washed out by the blue paint, but it may be faint like the original (M) trace.  An original double outline all around would make sense if the "pool" was the opening of a drain with inch-thick walls.

All the best, --stolfi