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Conservation Issues: Insect Damage

The Holy Family with Three Hares by Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
Germany, 1471-1528
The Holy Family with Three Hares, 1498
Woodcut, 393mm x 285 mm
Gift of George and Annette Cross Murphy, 89.149
The lower part of this print shows a horizontal area of loss that may be a "worm track" (as distinct from a round worm hole), or possibly the effect of silverfish damage. Silverfish are attracted to the sizing in paper, not the cellulose itself.