top of page
[Before Treatment] Recto

[Before Treatment] Recto

[After Treatment] Recto

[After Treatment] Recto

Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune, 1939, artisan identified as Robert Weaver

[Mid-Treatment] Re-rigging

[Mid-Treatment] Re-rigging

[Before Treatment] Verso

[Before Treatment] Verso

[After Treatment] Verso

[After Treatment] Verso

[Mid-Treatment] Re-rigging

[Mid-Treatment] Re-rigging

[Mid-Treatment] Re-rigging

[Mid-Treatment] Re-rigging

[Before Treatment] Torn Shroud

[Before Treatment] Torn Shroud

[After Treatment] Torn Shroud

[After Treatment] Torn Shroud

[Mid-Treatment] Re-rigging

[Mid-Treatment] Re-rigging

Thread-by-Thread Rerigging of the Ship

Attributed to Robert Weaver

This Page Highlights a Major Component of the Treatment of ACP1694, Landing of Slaves at Virginia, 1619

Treatment performed at: Winterthur Museum

Overseen by Conservators: Joyce Hill Stoner, Lauren Fair, Mark Anderson, and Mike Podmaniczky

Wooden, model ship in the style of  a nineteenth century British Man O'War, rigged with cotton thread secured with pins, required broken threads be attached to supportive, new cotton threads and research of historic rigging patterns
​
An entire post was devoted to this treatment in my blog.
bottom of page