Printing in Early Colonial America at Pequot Museum

See and learn about the Printing processes in use during the time of Early Colonial America (1590-1700) with a focus on Intaglio/Copperplate Printing during the 17th century Encampment at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum in Connecticut.

Friday and Saturday, September 20-21, 2019

Intaglio printing demonstrations and displays during the Encampment hours, 10 AM - 4 PM

Andy Volpe, an artist, printer and living historian in Worcester MA, has been studying and using the drawing and printing techniques of the Old Masters since 2004.  His print work is best known as the replica engraving prints of Paul Revere for the Printing Office of Edes & Gill at Faneuil Hall, Boston MA.  (His living history work is known from the former Higgins Armory Museum now at Worcester Art Museum) 

During the Encampment event, he will talk about and demonstrate the process of Intaglio copperplate printing during the time of the Pequot Wars and Colonial expansionism in North America, as well as how prints being produced from early Explorers and Adventurers’ accounts helped shape European and Colonist views of North America and its indigenous populations.  Old Master artists such as Rembrandt and Goltzius were active during this time, while maps, charts, and ‘witness’ illustrations of explorers like Verrezzano and the (mis)adventures of John Smith and Jamestown were being produced and published throughout Europe.