Fore-edge painting

In contrast, the fanned fore-edge style has watercolor applied to the top or bottom margin (recto or verso) of the page/leaf and not to the actual "fore"-edge itself.

[1] Early English fore-edge paintings, believed to date to the 14th century, presented heraldic designs in gold and other colors.

The duchess protested, but the king fanned out the pages of the book to reveal the royal coat of arms.

Davenport reports a 1641 copy of Acts and Monuments bearing a fore-edge portrait of Charles II, signed by "Fletcher" as the earliest known example of the art.

[14] Further research, though, suggests that Davenport's focus on only works linked to royalty may have caused his oversight of prior fore-edge paintings outside the royal libraries.

was originally thought to be the initials of one man, Weber surmises that the work was produced by two (now) known fore-edge artists, brothers Stephen and Thomas Lewis.

[2] Modern fore-edge painted scenes have many more variations as they can depict numerous subjects not found on earlier specimens.

Because of this, we know that her fore-edge painting of "The White House in 1840" on a copy of Washington Irving's Knickerbocker History of New York was her eleventh work.

[18] Also of mention is John Beer, of close geographical proximity to Miss Currie, both residing in Great Britain.

Carl Weber, Shen Jin, and Yao Boyue all provide testimony that Chinese painters were influenced by Western fore-edge paintings and began practicing the art overseas.

[21] The remaining artists that practice fore-edge painting are amateurs and leisure makers numbering fewer than sixty.

Martin Frost in Worthing, United Kingdom,[22] is currently the only professional full-time fore-edge artist in the UK.

[22] According to a profile he did with the BBC, his training was in theater where he painted backdrops for plays until he was introduced to this craft by a friend who happened to be a fore-edge painter.

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