id: 118184
accession number: 1939.289
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1939.289
updated: 2022-01-04 15:18:09.517000
Cultivated Medlar (Mespilus germanica), c. 1800. Gerard van Spaendonck (Dutch, 1746-1822). Stipple and roulette; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, for the Donald Gray Memorial Collection 1939.289
title: Cultivated Medlar (Mespilus germanica)
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creation date: c. 1800
creation date earliest: 1795
creation date latest: 1805
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creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, for the Donald Gray Memorial Collection
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culture: Netherlands, late 18th-early 19th Century
technique: stipple and roulette
department: Prints
collection: PR - Stipple
type: Print
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CREATORS
* Gerard van Spaendonck (Dutch, 1746-1822) - artist
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Printing in Color
opening date: 1985-09-10T04:00:00
Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).
title: The Flowering of the Botanical Print
opening date: 2016-03-26T00:00:00
The Flowering of the Botanical Print. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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The brown and blue-green inks were printed à la poupée. Instead of making a plate for each color, a single plate is selectively inked in different colors using stumps of rags, known as dolls (poupée in French), so that the complete design is printed at one time. Since this process is laborious, the plate was most often colored by hand with watercolor, like the right-hand impression. The printed color, however, creates a more beautiful effect, because all of the subtleties of the shading are evident. In comparison, the watercolor camouflages some of the finest detail.
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web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.289/1939.289_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.289/1939.289_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1939.289/1939.289_full.tif