It's not often that we actually witness an utter, complete, if past,
catalogue of picture framing disasters all framed within one picture frame, but recently we came across one. A young lady recently came to us with a pair of late, 18th-century Venetian pen and ink, framed drawings inherited from her grandmother. She liked them, she knew that the frames were damaged and that the framing was sub-standard and commissioned us to reframe the works, which we did, to the required, acid-free standard. We decided that this re-framing commission would be ...


