Colmar Ruckers with Fantasy Landscape

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Colmar Ruckers with Fantasy Landscape

Colmar Ruckers harpsichord with fantasy landscape lid painting by Kevin Fryer, 2004 — full instrument with lid open — Copy of the "Colmar" Ruckers by Ioannes Ruckers, 1624. Copy made by Kevin Fryer, 2004. Photos: Kevin Candland Photography.

A Colmar Ruckers copy by Kevin Fryer featuring a sweeping fantasy landscape on the lid and hand-carved, hand-printed block papers throughout the interior.

The lid of this 2004 instrument by Kevin Fryer opens to reveal an expansive fantasy landscape — rolling hills, classical ruins, and luminous skies painted in the tradition of seventeenth-century Flemish decorative arts. The interior is lined with hand-printed papers made from blocks carved by Adrian Card, each sheet printed individually on a hand-operated printing press.

Details

The back of the instrument with lid open.

Interior detail showing the hand-carved, hand-printed papers — blocks carved and printed by Adrian Card.

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