Etching tool and dies used in traditional die-stamping will star in a new Cromwell exhibition in Huntington, on loan from Baddeley Brothers.
‘The Headless Horseman’ exhibition at the Cromwell Museum is displaying a series of seven prints, derived from the Van Dyck portrait of Charles I on horseback. The prints start off with Cromwell’s head on the rider’s body before showing Charles I and then reverting back to Cromwell again. It is one of the most complicated sequences of prints of the mid-seventeenth century and each version is a re-working of the original copper printing plate. The tools and dies from Baddeley Brothers will be on display to demonstrate the printing technique which was used to create the prints at the time.
