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) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1800 creation date earliest: 1795 creation date latest: 1805 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, for the Donald Gray Memorial Collection copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, late 18th-early 19th Century technique: stipple and roulette department: Prints collection: PR - Stipple type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gerard van Spaendonck (Dutch, 1746-1822) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES 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