Like everything else in cancer, there are no clear-cut answers, at least not yet, despite the forests of paper used to print study after study on specific substances that might or might not play a role.
Other galleries at the museum include the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery that exhibits traveling collections, General Collections Gallery that displays Asian and European artwork, the Study Gallery that shows small temporary collections, and the Print Study Room that exhibits prints and photographs.
The overall findings of SAMSS, including recommendations, have been published in the peer-reviewed literature [ 12] and in a limited print study culmination report [ 13].
Contents range from remarkable antiquities like "Mundus Subterraneus" by the 17th-century Dutch scholar Athanasius Kircher, thought to be the earliest printed study of geophysics and vulcanology, to a copy of Neil Armstrong's "Stroll on the Moon," which is signed by the author and the fellow astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
A kind of bibliographic cabinet of wonders, the show's contents range from remarkable antiquities like "Mundus Subterraneus" by the 17th-century Dutch scholar Athanasius Kircher, thought to be the earliest printed study of geophysics and volcanology, to a copy of Neil Armstrong's "Stroll on the Moon," signed by the author and his fellow astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
The purple and red dyes that were identified in the prints studied are listed in Table 1.
We attempt to use the identification of both yellow and blue pigments in order to corroborate the production date of the prints studied.
The prints studied herein are from a thematic series designed by Katsushika Hokusai titled A Tour of the Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku Taki Meguri).
Based on our experimental findings and historic literary references, we propose that the orpiment used in the prints studied was sourced from China and the artificial arsenic sulfide was produced by the dry process method.
Throughout the group of prints studied, colorants are often found in combination, either by physically mixing two or more substances before application to the woodblock, or by over-printing different colorants from the same block.
