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
	<i>Printing in Color</i>. 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
	<i>The Flowering of the Botanical Print</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).

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wall description: 
The brown and blue-green inks were printed <em>à la poupée. </em>Instead of making a plate for each color, a single plate is selectively inked in different colors using stumps of rags, known as dolls (<em>poupée </em>in French), so that the complete design is printed at one time<em>.</em> 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