Mr Moran

In 1998-99 there was an exhibition called "COPPER AS CANVAS - Two Centuries
of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper 1575-1775" which was held at the Phoenix
Art Museum / Nelson Atkins Museum / Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis.
In the catalogue  Prof. Dr. E. Westermann has an essay "Copper Production,
Trade and Use in Europe from the end of the Fifteenth Century to the end of
the Eighteenth Century", p. 117-132. You may find interesting information
here but also several references.
Jørgen Wadum
Chief Conservator
Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis
Mauritshuis web: http://www.mauritshuis.nl/



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Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 2:37 PM
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Subject: Request for informaton


  Dear List Members,
        My request is not specificly about museums, but rather your broad
base
of knowledge.
        Many of you have Copper kettles from the Fir Trade Era in your
colections. There is on going work which attempts to trace these kettles
back to the sorce of there production. The lack of funding has made
making the Euopen conection imposible.
        It is my feeling that some one in Europe has done research on what
to
them would have be a local to reagonal industry and that all we need do
is ask the right person.
        What I am tring to find out is  if anyone has done research on the
production of copper kettles in europe in the years 1500 to 1800. Are
there specific production sites?  Are there samples of the work
produced? Are there any written records to indicate the numbers
produced, numbers shipped to North America?

                        Yours
                         T.W.Moran

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