Pyroxylin on paper

Ramona Duncan-Huse <duncanhuse [at] aol__com> writes

>I am requesting information about the ageing characteristics and
>general durability of artworks composed of pyroxylin on paper.

You can find a lot of information about this material in the
photo/film conservation databases because it had an important rule
in photography between ca. 1850-1955.

Suggested keywords: (Wet) collodion process, Collodion (POP) prints,
Nitrocellulose (film materials), Cellulose nitrate.

Flesch Ba'lint
archaist (conservator) photographer
Budapest
V. Ka'rolyi Miha'ly u. 14/c.
Hungary  H-1053
+36-(1)-117-9908

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