Watermarks Conference Program
[Revised September 12,
1996]
(Click on participants' names for abstracts.)
Thursday, 10 October
All sessions will be held in the Wilson
Room
1:30-2 pm Opening
Remarks
&
Information
2-3 pm
Session 1
Hilbert H. Campbell (Virginia Tech),
Chair
Ted-Larry Pebworth (University of
Michigan-Dearborn),
"Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks"
R. Carter
Hailey
(University of Virginia), "Watermark Study in Mixed Paper
Quartos: The Example of Robert Crowley's Piers Plowman (1550)"
3-3:30 pm Break
3:30-5 pm Session
2
Michael Saffle (Virginia Tech), Chair
Stephen
Shearon
(Middle Tennessee State University), "Watermarks and Rastra in
Neapolitan Music Manuscripts, 1700-1825"
Dexter Edge
(London), "The Study of Eighteenth-Century Music Paper:
Problems and Prospects"
Steven Zohn (Scranton), "Watermarks
at Dresden and Their Implications for Telemann
Chronology"
7:30-8:45 pm Keynote
Session
I
Welcoming Remarks by Robert C. Bates, Dean of
the
College of Arts & Sciences
Paul Needham (Sotheby's, New York), "Caxton's
Paper
Supplies"
Reception to follow in the "Breakout Area," with a Celtic Harp
performance by Sharon Scully
8:45-10
pm Reception
Friday, 11 October
8-9 am Breakfast
9-10 am Session
3
Marilyn Norstedt (Virginia Tech Libraries),
Chair
Nancy Ash
(Philadelphia
Museum of Art) and Shelley Fletcher (National
Gallery of Art), "Watermarks in Rembrandt's Prints"
Brett
Charbeneau (Williamsburg Imprints Program), "Practical
Watermark Image Management in the Field"
10-10:30 am Break
10:30:-11:30 am Session
4
Donald W. Rude (Texas Tech), Chair
Laetitia
Yeandle (Folger Shakespeare Library), "Watermarks
as Evidence for Dating and Authenticity in Ben Franklin and John
Donne"
Leonard
Rapport,
"Watermark Evidence for the Dating of Madison's
Notes of the 1787 Constitutional Convention"
11:30 am-1 pm Lunch &
Announcements
1-2 pm Keynote
Session
II
Welcoming Remarks by Raymond D. Smoot, Vice
President for Finance and Treasurer, Virginia Tech
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Konrad (Director of the Department of
Musicology at the University of Würzburg), "The Use of
Watermarks in Musicology" (Introduced by Joseph Eska,
Virginia Tech)
2-2:30 pm Break
2:30-3:30 pm Session
5
Antonio A. Fernandez (Virginia Tech), Chair
Celia A. Fryer
(Richmond, Virginia), "Spanish and Italian Watermarks in
Colonial Guatemalen Books"
Paul R. Laird
(University of Kansas) and
Greta Jean Olson (Chinese University of
Hong Kong), "Watermarks in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Music
Manuscripts"
3:30-4 pm Break
4-5:15 pm Session
6
David Radcliffe (Virginia Tech), Chair
Jeremy Smith
(University of North Dakota), "Dating the Hidden Editions of Thomas East
with Paper Evidence"
James E. May (Penn State-DuBois), "The Uniformity
of
Paperstocks in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Books and Pamphlets,
Particularly Dublin Printing"
Daniela Moschini (Fotoscientifica, of Parma, Italy) &
Conor Fahy
(University College, London), "La Marca d'Acqua: The Watermarks
Digital Sensing
System"
Saturday, 12 October
8-9 am Breakfast
9-10:15 am Session
7
Margaret Downs-Gamble (Virginia Tech), Chair
Carol Ann
Eggert
(National Gallery of Art), "Phosphorescence Watermark
Imaging"
Deborah A.
Barclift and Michael Skalka
(National Gallery of Art), "The Rembrandt Project on
CD-ROM"
Ruby Reid
Thompson (Nottingham
University Library), "Watermarks and Other Physical
Evidence from the Portland Literary Manuscripts"
10:15-10:45 am Break &
Poster Sessions
10:45 am-12:15 Session
8
Marie Axton (University of Cambridge),
Chair
David L. Gants
(University of Georgia), "Dylux and Digital Cameras: Paper
Studies at the End of the Century"
Robert
W.
Allison (Bates College), "An Automated WWW Search Tool for
Papers and Watermarks: The Archive of Papers and Watermarks in
Greek Manuscripts"
Daniel W.
Mosser & Ernest W. Sullivan, II
(Virginia Tech),
"The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive"
Thomas L. Gravell, "Demonstration of the Dylux
Method"
12:15 Lunch
1:30-9 pm
Optional excursion along the Blue Ridge Parkway to
Mabry
Mill, and wine tasting and dinner at the Château
Morrisette
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