Instructor: Lee Davis
Workshop Fee: $495.00
Lab Fee: $50.00*
*Includes gold leafing materials
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WS-122: Reverse Painting on Glass with Lee Davis
Course Dates: June 23-27, 2008
Long known and practiced in the Orient, reverse painting enjoyed its
greatest popularity in America during the early 1800s. Used in clocks
and some mirrors, this unusual art form requires the artist to paint the
design on one side of the glass while it will be viewed from the other.
Because of this, scenes which are not symmetrical must be painted in
mirror image so that when the glass is turned over those objects placed
on the right side will be entered first with successive steps entering
those things which appear further back.
Painting done for many early shelf clock glasses was probably the
work of women living in the communities where the clocks were made, but
evidence of this and the exact techniques used at that time are scarce.
Reverse painting on glass, which was used in conjunction with shelf
clocks in America, lasted from about 1815 to 1850 when it was replaced
by the forerunner of the modern decal. Except for a brief period of time
during the Victorian period when it enjoyed a resurgence, reverse
painting almost became extinct.
The French, or more fashionable name for the art form is EGLOMISE.
This honors Glomi, a French or Swiss decorator, who painted in gold leaf
on glass. An Eglomise panel should therefore be of gilt on glass; as the
term is now commonly used, it refers to any painted panel.
Reverse Painting on Glass
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