INTELLECTUAL ORDER: Inventory and Cataloging

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The two prints below are from a series by Rubens on Marie de Medici. Both are "A" prints, i.e., "of the highest value."  The print below left would have a condition code of "W" (good to optimum); the one at right would bear a code of "Z" (ruined state). In this case the ruined print would be encapsulated and inventoried but not cataloged.

 

Detail 20" x 14"

19½" x 13½"

  10½" x 16"  

This 18th- or early 19th-century drawing in the manner of Flaxman (1755 - 1826) would be assigned the quality code "A" and the condition code "W." Once it is removed from the actual scrapbook page, its verso may reveal more about its origins. First drawn in pencil with many erasures, the drawing was next outlined in part with black ink. A broader stroked brown ink completed the drawing.  Directly below: a selection of "D" (undistinguished) prints. Such prints represent only about one-eighth of the King collection. They were useful icons for an artist but are of little interest in and of themselves. The entirety of the prints, however, tells us about artistic tastes and interests in early 19th-century United States.

 

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