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New images: Marci letter wax
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RE: New images: Marci letter wax
nablator > Yesterday, 01:33 AM
(Yesterday, 12:20 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(23-12-2025, 10:57 PM)proto57 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.the letter had a sort of gauze or mesh over it.
Indeed, but there is also a digital image without that. I cannot remember on which occasion I got that, but I temporarily put it You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
The "gauze or mesh" is on every image AFAIK, more or less visible depending on the direction of light and resolution. I assumed that it is on the paper, a relief produced by the press at production.
The viewer on the Beinecke website makes it nearly invisible but if you download the image, zoom and play with levels, it's there. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Your image is the same but cropped a little. -
RE: New images: Marci letter wax
nablator > Yesterday, 01:57 AM
(Yesterday, 01:43 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I see it too now, especially over the wax. Let me double-check what else I have...
It really looks as if it is above the wax, not on the paper, so it is a thin gauze or mesh after all. Also it is visible around the tear on the left side, not following the edge of the paper. -
RE: New images: Marci letter wax
proto57 > Yesterday, 01:57 AM
(Yesterday, 12:20 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(23-12-2025, 10:57 PM)proto57 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.the letter had a sort of gauze or mesh over it.
Indeed, but there is also a digital image without that. I cannot remember on which occasion I got that, but I temporarily put it You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..
(Yesterday, 01:43 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
(Yesterday, 01:33 AM)nablator Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Your image is the same but cropped a little.
I see it too now, especially over the wax. Let me double-check what else I have...
Yes, thanks Rene... I was about to post the below image, and see that Nablator and you both now note the mesh is on the image you uploaded:
So I think it possible that your image is the Beinecke image. So I went to Lisa's full letter image, and cropped this same area:
I think the case may be this... and maybe Lisa can answer, unless someone else here has handled this letter: Perhaps that mesh IS attached, maybe as protection and support, and on the Beinecke image, being front-lit, the mesh tends to blur and obscure the letter's details. But on the light table (back-lit) examples taken by Lisa, the mesh is less obvious.
I don't know, but that would be my guess so far, unless Lisa can chime in here: Is that mesh glued on?
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RE: New images: Marci letter wax
nablator > Yesterday, 03:05 PM
There is a 2nd gauze overlay on the verso side. -
RE: New images: Marci letter wax
LisaFaginDavis > Yesterday, 05:40 PM
I think it was a repair to protect the letter from further tearing -
RE: New images: Marci letter wax
LisaFaginDavis > Yesterday, 05:53 PM
I can find out from Paula Zyats when the repair was done - I think it probably wasn't done at the Beinecke because, at least when I worked in the conservation lab there in the early 1990s, the process would have been to use Japanese tissue, not mesh. It probably arrived at Beinecke that way, in which case it was likely done by Kraus' conservator. But I'll see what I can find out.