{"id":204,"date":"2014-05-29T09:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfredarchives.wordpress.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2014-05-29T09:31:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:31:29","slug":"reverse-glass-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2014\/05\/29\/reverse-glass-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverse Glass Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/reverse-painting-on-glass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-205 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/05\/reverse-painting-on-glass.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Reverse painting on glass\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Painting a scene in reverse is not something everyone can do! This image depicts the Alfred University campus (Rogers Observatory, Alumni Hall, The Gothic, and The Brick) in the late 1860s and is done in the <em>eglomise-painting<\/em> style, a centuries-old French technique also called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reverse_glass_painting\">reverse glass painting<\/a>. This particular piece, measuring about 14&#8243; x 9&#8243;, was created by Eglomise Designs of Boston, Inc. in 1976 as a sale item to University alumni at a cost of $35 (including shipping). Doubtless a hand-crafted, gilded framed artwork like this would certainly cost much more today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting a scene in reverse is not something everyone can do! This image depicts the Alfred University campus (Rogers Observatory, Alumni Hall, The Gothic, and The Brick) in the late 1860s and is done in the eglomise-painting style, a centuries-old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/2014\/05\/29\/reverse-glass-painting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[17,30,99,113,140,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/alfredarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}