If you're determined to bow a print to match the glass you might try a
fiber print wetted with water and placed on the glass until it molds
to that shape. Wouldn't take long I shouldn't think. Maybe weight it
with a baggie of dried rice or something else fairly pliable like that.
I, too, have a frame with domes glass. The print inside is the only
known image of my great grandmother...taken when she was about 12 or
13. What's amazing about it is that this was part of a family portrait
and they 'photoshopped' the rest of the family out so they could have
an image just of her because she died in childbirth.
Of course it was not done with Photoshop but by hand by some amazingly
gifted artist back in the 1800s...the quality of the work is fabulous.
All this to say that while the glass of this frame is domed, the print
is not...it's flat...and it looks really great.
This portrait hangs in my dining room along with portraits of all the
women in my family. It belonged to my maternal grandmother and for as
long as I can remember I hoped to some day have it. When my
grandmother went into a nursing home she asked me to take the portrait
which was of her mother, give it a home and love it. It gives me joy
to own it.
Lea
babies. they're what I do.
www.leamurphy.com
On Dec 9, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Roger Eichhorn <eichhorn@xxxxxx> wrote:
I have an antique oval frame that has a bowed glass in it. It
displays a tinted B&W print of a child and appears to be something
from the late 19th century. The child's costume is certainly of
that era. The print is bowed to match the curvature of the glass.
I don't intend to take the photo out to replace it with something
else, but I have another similar frame that's empty that I might
want to fill someday. My question is, how would I go about bowing a
print to match the curvature of the glass? I suppose at one time,
they had molds, perhaps of plaster, to accomplish the task.
Roger
