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APRIL 1993: NUMBER 7
Alabaster Conservation
Charlotte HubbardSculpture Conservator, Conservation Department...
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Removal from the rood
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APRIL 1993: NUMBER 7
Alabaster Conservation
Charlotte HubbardSculpture Conservator, Conservation Department
Introduction
Using the experience of the conservation of an alabaster figure, this article considers issues
raised regarding its treatment.
Included are the movement of a large object, the structure of
alabaster and the suitability of solvents on a water-soluble stone, and discussion relating to
the degree of restoration involved.
In 1994, the Reijksmuseum in Amsterdam will be mounting the exhibition The Golden Age of
Northern Netherlandish Art , for which the figure of St.
John the Evangelist will be borrowed
from the V&A.
It was carved by Hendryk de Keyser in 1613 for the Cathedral of St.
John in
Hertogenbosch, Holland, and is one of nine life-size figures among other alabaster ornaments
on the rood screen now
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