painted artwork on piano plates.

[harvey]

Or, they may have been like the old circus sign painter who did a beautiful
job with the lettering on our old band equipment van. It was supposed to
take one day and "cost" two bottles of muscatel (sp) wine -- his choice. It
turned out to be a two day, four bottle job! Regardless of the implications
of this, the man was an excellent artist.


At 09:42 PM 8/31/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I will bet that the people employed to decorate the plates were either
>sign painters, or painters of an almost lost craft called "trump d'oeil"  
>  that is french for "fools the eye"  These are the artisians who do gold
>leafing, and the intricate painting and decoration on the inside of
>palaces, cathedrals, and state buildings. The black line motiffs were
>undoubtably from sign pianters.  There are books of such decorations in
>the library, under "sign painting" of course. : )
>
>Richard Trump


Jim Harvey, RPT
harvey@greenwood.net