Harvard Art Museums > Straus.8887: X-radiograph(s) of "Wall painting fragment from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase, room 19" Photographs Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Add to Collection Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"X-radiograph(s) of "Wall painting fragment from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase, room 19" , Straus.8887,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 26, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/356413. Identification and Creation Object Number Straus.8887 Title X-radiograph(s) of "Wall painting fragment from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase, room 19" Classification Photographs Work Type photograph, x-radiograph Date August 10, 2016 Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/356413 Physical Descriptions Dimensions plate size: 35.6 × 129.5 cm (14 × 51 in.) Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Alan Burroughs Collection of X-Radiographs Object Number Straus.8887 Contact am_straus@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description X-radiograph Operator: Kate Smith and Elizabeth LaDuc Duration of session: 3 hours Total number of exposures: 7 Material Description: true fresco on plaster in a wooden frame (3 3/16" thick) Radiation source: Comet tube Exposure settings: 100kV 5 mA 90seconds 194cm focal distance (front view) 200kV 5 mA 180seconds 194cm (side view for stratigraphy) Filtration used: none Screens used: 0.010 Pb screen behind detector plate Scanning notes: laser power high, 12-bit logarithmic data scale, PMT 10, 50 micron scan resolution Image manipulation notes: dcm files exported with edge filter "display 6", composite image assembled with Photoshop and saved as tiff Taken to learn about internal structure of the plaster support and framing. Publication History Elizabeth Molacek, Kate Smith, Katherine Eremin, Lucy Cooper, and Georgina Rayner, Re-Discovering a Roman wall painting at Harvard: New research on a fragment from the Villa at Boscotrecase, Studies in Conservation, Studies in Conservation (https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2020.1733789, March 9, 2020), 65, 5, Pages 296-311, Figure 1, Page 297; Figure 6, Page 300; Figure 9, Page 301; Figure 10, Page 301; Figure 11, Page 302; Figure 12, Page 303; Figure 13, Page 303; Figure 14, Page 204; Figure 15, Page 304 Subjects and Contexts Alan Burroughs Collection of X-Radiographs Related Works 1921.37 Wall Painting Fragment from the Villa at Boscotrecase Paintings
