Paper Conservation: Decisions & Compromises ICOM-CC Graphic Document Working Group – Interim Meeting Austrian National Library, Vienna 17 – 19 April 2013 International Committee for Conservation INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS ICOM-CC Paper Conservation: Decisions & Compromises Extended Abstracts presented at the ICOM-CC Graphic Document Working Group Interim Meeting Vienna, Austrian National Library 17-19 April 2013 Edited by Lieve Watteeuw and Christa Hofmann © International Council of Museums (ICOM) Vienna, Austrian National Library, 17-19 April 2013 Organization: ICOM-CC Graphic Documents Working Group and the Austrian National Library; In collaboration with the Albertina, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and KU Leuven Conference website: www.onb.ac.at/ev/about/ifr/icom_cc.htm Vienna, Austrian National Library, www.onb.ac.at ICOM-CC, www.icom-cc.org/28/working-groups/graphic-documents Organising team Vienna: Christa Hofmann | Wolfgang Kreuzer | Hannah Singer | Christa Schuster | Birgit Speta | Elisabeth Thobois | Julia Wikarski with the support of all members of the conservation department of the Austrian National Library. An international peer review committee was evaluating the extended abstracts. Editorial team: Sigrid Eyb-Green | Paul Garside | Ute Henniges | Christa Hofmann | Uta Landwehr | Dianne van der Reyden | Marie Vest | Lieve Watteeuw Cover: Kromarchivpaper by Ilse Mühlbacher Graphik-Design: Sibylle Gieselmann www.null7.at Content Lieve Watteeuw Introduction 7 Dianne Lee van der Reyden New Trends in Preservation in the Digital Age: New Roles for Conservators 8 Uta Landwehr | Junko Sonderegger The Albums of Duke Charles de Croÿ: Consolidation and Modified Re-housing of Double-sided Miniatures on Parchment in Bound Volumes 14 Doris St-Jacques | Maria Bedynski | Lynn Curry | Season Tse A 1763 Illuminated Haggadah Manuscript: How Ineffective Past Treatments Resulted in an Antioxidant Research Project, Impacting Current Treatment Decisions 17 Birgit Speta The Conservation of the Hussite Codex: Considerations on Minimal Intervention 21 Lieve Watteeuw Books in Exhibitions: History and Adventures in Display 24 Robert Fuchs Risk and Safety of Illuminated Manuscripts with Brittle Paint Layers: Can the Digital Scan Substitute Old Manuscripts? Are Old Choices of Conservation Reversible? 28 Lynn B. Brostoff | Sylvia Albro | John Bertonaschi Integrating Analytical Tools in Treatment Decision-making for a 1513 Hand-colored Ptolemy Geographia Atlas 29 Christa Hofmann | Andreas hartl | Kyujin Ahn | Laura Völkel | Ina Faerber | Antje Potthast Verdigris I: Compromises in conservation 34 Kyujin Ahn | Andreas hartl | Christa Hofmann | Ute Hennings | Antje Potthast Verdigris 2: Wet Chemical Treatments which are not Easy to Decide and Apply 36 Matija Strlic | Catherine Dillon | Nancy Bell | Peter Brimblecombe | Kalliopi Fouseki | Jinghao Xue | William Lindsay | Eva Menart | Carlota Grossi | Kostas Ntanos | Gerrit De Bruin | David Thickett | Fenella France Integrated Modelling: The Demography of Collections 38 Jana Kolar | Dusan Kolesa | Gerrit de Bruin Characterisation of Historical Paper - Possibilities and Limitations 42 Véronique Rouchon | Eleonora Pellizzi | Maroussia Duranton Study of Phytate Chelating Treatments Used on Iron Gall Ink Damaged Manuscripts 46 pnina shor | lena libman | tanya bitler | tanya treiger Practice and Progress in the Conservation, Preservation and Digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls 50 3 ICOM-CC Graphic Documents Working Group Interim Meeting | Vienna 17 – 19 April 2013 Jiri Vnoucek The Language of Parchment - Learning the History of Manuscripts with the Help of Visual Assessment of the Parchment 51 Paul Garside | Barry Knight The Use of NIR Spectroscopy to Investigate the Condition of Parchment 55 Linda Stiber Morenus Color Printing in 16-17th Century Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts: Degradation, Conservation Issues and Exhibition Concerns 59 Hassan Ebeid | Jean Brown | Ysanne Holt | Brian Singer A Study of Dyed Endpapers during Islamic Medieval Times in Egypt: Purpose, Materials and Techniques 61 Aline Abreu Migon dos Santos Preservation of Architectural Drawings on Translucent Paper in Brazil: Conservation Methods in Public Institutions 66 Irene Brückle | Maike Schmidt | Eva Hummert | Elisabeth Thobois Removable loss Integration in the Re - Treatment of Robert Delaunay’s Three Graces, Study for “The City of Paris” at the Albertina, Vienna. 69 Xing Kung Liao | Fei Wen Tsai Simple yet Complicated – An Evaluation of Airbrush Technique Applied to Filling Losses using Cellulose Powders 73 Andreas Hartl Ronald by Franz West: Conservation of a Three - Dimensional and Painted Papier Mâché Object 77 Valentine Dubard The Restauration of Cartoons at the Department of Drawings and Prints in the Louvre 80 Philip Meredith | Tanya Uyeda To Remove or Retain? – Extensive Infills and Reworking in a Large - Scale Japanese Wall Painting 84 Tilly Laaser | Karolina Soppa | Christoph Krekel The Migration of Hydroxy Propyl Cellulose During Consolidation of a Painted Wallpaper: A Case Study Using a Fluorescent - Labelled Consolidant 88 Poster Presentations Magdalena Grenda Ethical Considerations Concerning the Conservation and Restoration of a Herbarium from the 19th Century 93 Rita Araújo | Conceição Casanova | Maria João Melo | Ana Lemos, Vânia S. F. Muralha | Marcello Picollo Conservation of a Book of Hours from Mafra’s National Palace - Collection: Between Technique and Ethics 97 4 ICOM-CC Graphic Documents Working Group Interim Meeting | Vienna 17 – 19 April 2013 Michael Wheeler | Nicholas Barnard | Karine Bovagnet | Richard Mullholland The Conservation and Digitization of Jain Manuscripts at the Victoria and Albert Museum 102 Guadalupe Piñar | Katja Sterflinger | Flavia Pinzari The Microflora Inhabiting Leonardo da Vinci’s Self - Portrait: A Fungal Role in Foxing Spots 105 Patricia Engel | Katja Sterflinger Microorganisms in Books: First Results of the EU Project “Men and Books” 109 Ewa Paul | Anna Grzechnik Deconstructing the Reconstruction 113 Marzenna Ciechanska | Dorota Dzik Kruszelnicka | Elzbieta Jezewska | Joanna Kurkowska Conservator’s Investigation of the Chinoiserie in the Wilanów Palace 117 Grace Jan | Xiangmei Gu A systematic Approach to Condition Assesment and Treatment of Chinese Handscrolls 122 Christina Duffy Applications of Image Processing Software to Archival Material 127 Christina Duffy Analysing Deterioration of Artifacts in Archival Material Using Multispectral Images 131 Eve Menei | Laurence Caylux Strategy in the Case of a Wrecked Papyrus: Is an Intervention Appropriate? 135 Ana Margarida Silva | Marcello Picollo | Márcia Vilarigues | Maria João Melo Fiber Optic Reflectance Spectroscopy (FORS): A Useful Technique for the Analysis of an Early 20th Century Livre d’Artiste 139 Lieve Watteeuw | Bruno Vandermeulen | Jan Van der Stock | Fred Truyen | Marc Proesman | Luc Van Gool | Wim Moreau Imaging Characteristics of Graphic Materials with the Minidome (RICH) 140 Yana van Dyke The Paper Conservator’s Role: The Metropolitan Museum’s Renovated Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and later South Asia 142 Paul Garside | Rajabi Razak Characterising the Origin of Carbon Black Inks by ATR FTIR Spectroscopy 145 Marion Verborg A Technical Study and Conservation Project of Roy Lichtenstein’s Screenprint on Plastic, Sandwich and Soda, 1964 149 Hsin-Chen Tsai Digitally Printed Paper Infills for Compensation as Applied to Japanese Decorative Fold - Dyed Papers 153 5 ICOM-CC Graphic Documents Working Group Interim Meeting | Vienna 17 – 19 April 2013 Paper Conservation: Decisions & Compromises Lieve Watteeuw Coordinator ICOM-CC Working Group Graphic Documents, 2011-2014 KU Leuven, Belgium Introduction • The mix of Western and Eastern traditions in paper conservation. After a very successful 16th Triennial Meeting in • Models for surveys and risk assessment of Lisbon in 2011, our ICOM-CC Working Group of graphic documents collections. Graphic Documents continues to develop the • Growing competences in the field of paper-, themes of research and conservation practice for library-, archive- and print- conservation. library and archival documents. The aim of the ICOM-CC Graphic Documents Working Group is The Interim Meeting of the Working Group unchanging: to gather and disseminate informa- Graphic Documents in Vienna (17 - 19 April 2013) tion from around the world on the conservation on the theme Paper Conservation: Decisions & of all forms of documents, including, but not Compromise, provides a forum for the broad limited to, those on paper, parchment and papy- spectrum of activities our professional communi- rus. ty is developing. Ever increasing competences are demanded of paper-, library-, archive- and print The working program of the graphic document conservators by, on the one hand, the challenges group 2011-2014 reflects the fast evolution in of digitalization in the archive-, museum- and the professional field. The program has seven library- world, the global impact of changing cul- main targets focusing on research and practice, tural policies and economic constraints and, on at object and at collection level, from diagnosis the other hand, new research, new materials and to imaging and digitalization. The objectives are new techniques. We realize that decision pro- situated in the following areas: cesses in conservation are influenced by changes in ethics, politics and science. In the light of this, • Multidisciplinary projects dealing with the conservators need to shape