D17mc18-CF-2017_Milano, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, G. M. Mitelli, Or, inv. 1201 s

Facilitated description:

 

Or, that makes me fall a stone is an engraving on paper. 
Engraving is the printing of an image from a matrix (metal image model). 
Giuseppe Mitelli made the engraving in 1660.
The engraving represents a man with a basket full of vases falling to the ground.
The engraving is kept at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan and is part of the Pogliaghi collection. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the engraving in 2017. 
The restoration students participated in the restoration. 
The restorers cleaned the engraving of dust and stains. 
They filled the tears and holes with Japanese paper (very thin and light paper).
They have eliminated the old restoration work.
The missing parts were covered with dyed paper.
In the end, they washed and dried the incision.
The restorers put the ininicision under some weights to eliminate the folds. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

The restoration was part of an ordinary teaching project on 57 engravings from the Pogliaghi Fund, kept at the Ambrosiana Library, which involved students in the training course on library, archival, parchment and photographic materials (degree course in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage). The engraving is part of the series The art on the way.

Restoration

The intervention on the incision of Mitelli began with the dry cleaning with a brush and the application of gellano for the removal of the auxiliary support. Subsequently, the tears were compensated with adhesive and the previous restoration measures were removed. The chromatic additions were made with previously dyed paper. Finally, a washing and drying with absorbent paper and non-acid cartons and the aid of a weight were carried out.