Suggestions on how to frame James Creighton piece from Leslies?

[aquarius31]

Great! It looks like there are a few versions of the Leslie's woodcut that have been colored at a later point.

[Leon]

That is a nice looking woodcut.

Tanner - I used a higher end art gallery to frame one time and they did a great job. Good luck with it....

Originally Posted by aquarius31

Great! It looks like there are a few versions of the Leslie's woodcut that have been colored at a later point.

[mouschi]

Originally Posted by Leon

That is a nice looking woodcut.

Tanner - I used a higher end art gallery to frame one time and they did a great job. Good luck with it....

Thanks for the suggestion Leon! The pic here is not mine ... mine is not colored, which i'm not sure to think of it as a good thing or bad thing but I'm not about to bust out the box of crayolas (just yet!)

[Leon]

Originally Posted by mouschi

Thanks for the suggestion Leon! The pic here is not mine ... mine is not colored, which i'm not sure to think of it as a good thing or bad thing but I'm not about to bust out the box of crayolas (just yet!)

I think the hand colored ones rock. Ones done in Crayola might not be as nice.

[GaryPassamonte]

I picked up this one last night in Scott Gaynor's auction. I think the coloring adds richness to the woodcut.

[aquarius31]

Originally Posted by GaryPassamonte

I picked up this one last night in Scott Gaynor's auction. I think the coloring adds richness to the woodcut.

Congrats Gary! It’s beautiful and very well executed for one of the most significant woodcuts out there. I’ve always wondered whether the artists were using colors that were accurate to the specific teams. I haven’t researched it enough but the 3 that are shown in this thread certainly differ in color scheme.


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[GaryPassamonte]

I was thinking the same thing about the uniforms, George. I can only find a few of these teams referenced on the Threads of Our Game site.
1859 & 1859 Knickerbockers and Excelsiors- blue pants and white shirt
1855 Empire- drab pants and crimson trim on the shirt
1858 Eckfords- light shirt and dark pants
The Empire uniform on your woodcut looks amazingly accurate. The Excelsior looks right. The Knickerbockers and Eckfords not so much. I'll have wait until I have mine in hand to take a closer look, but there appear to be a few uniforms that are strikingly similar on our woodcuts. Maybe Glenn can provide a closer scan to better look at his copy.
This is not much to go on. The uniform styles could be from who knows exactly what year. They could be from the late 1850s up to 1865. Also, the woodcuts could have been colored in 1865 or in a much later year. It would be nice to identify a woodcut using the correct uniform colors. That would be a great help to Craig Brown in accurately picturing uniforms from this early period.