Deerfield Antiques Show

I just got back from setting up our booth at the Deerfield Antiques Show, which will take place on Saturday and Sunday at Deerfield Academy

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Chine Appliqué

A chine appliqué print (also called a chine collé print) is a print where the image has been impressed onto a thin sheet of

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Currier & Ives

As time goes on, I plan to feature different American printmakers in this blog and the most famous and successful

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Destined For Men: Print Conference

I just returned from a terrific conference put on by the Center for Historic American Visual Culture at the

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Currier & Ives prints & collectors

Maps seem to attract a lot of collectors, more so than do prints. There are collectors for important historical figures, such as

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Play Ball! The World Series & Baseball Prints

I am in baseball heaven! I have been a Yankee fan since I was six years old and a Phillies fan ever since I moved to the City of Brotherly Love

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Monticello

Last weekend I had the great pleasure of visiting Monticello again. Charlottesville was lovely with fall foliage and Thomas

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Prester John

Time for another exploration of a cartographic myth, in this case one that appears on maps of Africa in the sixteenth century, the myth

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Original or Reproduction?

Telling an original print or map from a reproduction can sometimes be very easy, and other times quite difficult. [for discussion of the

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