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US Capitol Reverse painting on glass #867085

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 US Capitol Reverse painting on glass  #867085
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RARE because each year more and more of these old ones break.</em></td>
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If you have never seen a reverse painting on glass you are in for a treat. To paint on canvas the background is painting and the levels are added on to until the details are finished. To paint on glass and have it reverse...it is the total opposite. FIRST you start with the littlest
details and what the eye will see first then you build backwards until the very LAST thing painted is the background. Take a look at one of the pictures and you can see how it is done. The Chinese perfected this art and it became a hot item in 1800's and fell out of favor during the victorian era. This painting is of the US Capitol building and it is painted, "Capitol Washington". To be an artist that could also write on the reverse glass...to read from left to right it had to be painted from right to left. So, to have this one with readable writing...is a gem! The vast number of these paintings-like this one- that have survived are normally unsigned. A super find ecause with each year more and more are broken and tossed away. You can have something that grows rarer with each passing day!
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#: BC200</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:fair with a few imperfections</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1800's</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:15</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:20</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title: US Capitol Reverse painting on glass </td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:reverse on glass</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:glass and oil paint</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:reverse painting on glass</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:NJ USA</td></tr>
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