Thomson-Walker Internship 2016

Victoria Haddock

The Project

• Collection of printed medical portraits• Around 2700 objects (we counted!)• Attached with tapes and adhesives to poor

quality backing boards • Aim is to remove all the prints from current

storage into new archival acid-free folders and storage boxes

Conservation

Applying the CMC lens tissue package to a paper based gummed tape

The stages of rehousing – Single crease folder of archival paper, four flap folder, archival storage box

Labelling is key to any rehousing project – as we don’t want to disassociate any print and need to be able to find things easily and quickly in the future

Interesting finds….

TW.1.P43. Sir Percivall Pott. By Joshua Reynolds. TW.1.P44. Sir Percivall Pott. By Nathaniel Dance.

TW.1.M41. Mrs Morris TW.2.B1.23. Laura Maria Catharina Bassi

Summary and Projections TOTAL TW.1 841TOTAL TW.1 recommended for further treatment 97TOTAL TW.2 1883TOTAL TW.2 recommended for further treatment 23TOTAL COMPLETED 1084TOTAL REMAIN 1640Percentage Completed 39.7944Percentage with further treatment potentially required 4.40529TOTAL TW Collection 2724

TOTAL VH 695Weekly average 69.5 Potential weeks remaining 23.4286

Potential future interns

2 x 12 week internships

Visits, Lectures and Events

Objects conservation studio at the GMRC. Image courtesy of Misa Tamura (ICON Ethnographic group

Looking at Pacific Barkcloth at the Textile Conservation Centre, Glasgow. Image courtesy of Misa Tamura (ICON Ethnographic group

A Nigerian coffin at the GMRC

The Thomson Walker Collection