In an effort to not lose more money on posters, we offer this full-resolution 11″ x 17″ image of A.J. Roubo’s famous Plate 11 for free. Download it, take the file to your local print shop and get it printed on a large-format printer.
The file is a jpg and is in full color. Print it out in color, and the background will resemble the rag paper used for the 1777 original. And the ink will be the dark dark brown found on the original.
https://blog.lostartpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Roubo_plate11_fullres.jpg
If you are worried that the dude at the print shop will claim you need copyright clearance (for an image from 1777…?), print out this blog entry and take it along to the store.
“Hi. We (Lost Art Press) own the original of this image. The person holding this blog entry is allowed to print the image for their personal use. Thank you, print shop person.”
Why are we doing this? Several readers have asked for a Plate 11 poster. Instead of flushing away several hundred American dollars down the American Standard (and ending up with hundreds of unsold posters in my cellar), we decided to give the electronic image away (and use the money we saved for moss research).
I never get tired of this particular plate. It is so blinking odd. The scale of the jigs, tools and work hung on the walls of the workshop bear no connection to reality. The brace on the wall is the same size as one of the workers. However, if you own the “Book of Plates” you can play a fun game. All of the objects shown on the walls of Plate 11 are actually things found in other plates in the book.
I’m sure you could make it into a drinking game. Somehow.
— Christopher Schwarz
Thank you kindly!
Thank you very much!! It will look great sharing a spot in my shop with the Edwin Skull Chair Poster I purchased from Lost Art Press.
Thank you !
Very kind. Thank you
Warmest thanks! ‘Tis now loaded all the way down, later to be printed and framed – it is a nice’un! 🙂
Cheers,
Mattias
Mattias,
Imagining you saying this in your Swedish/Country Redneck accent – while holding a banjo – is all I need to remain happy today.
Chris,
Having a vivid imagination can be both a blessing and a curse (for example, someone mentioned root canals and vasectomies the other day), but I have to admit that this is the first time anyone’s ever told me that imagining me holding a banjo made them … happy?! So I shall not further fire up your imagination and risk bringing detriment to your delight by telling you what my mother always said she was going to call the book she never wrote.
Should you wish to rely less on imagination and actually watch me holding (and playing) a banjo, there’s some stuff here: https://vimeo.com/mgjb.
Oh, and just to make sure I’m not given any undue Redneck credit, it is the tenor banjo that I play, not the five-string, so no Deliverance from me, I’m afraid.
Cheers,
Mattias
Love the Mardi Gras jazz band – you guys are amazing
Thank you!
Mattias
I’m sorry if my interventions in this thread are now veering seriously off topic and out of hand, but I just remembered that there is an old video out there that I suspect comes a tad closer to what Chris may have been imagining (poor chap!), at https://youtu.be/a2Z0Cl8egIE?t=1026. The link should take you to 17:06, where the initial skit begins, after which there’s about a minute or so before the actual music starts.
Just to put the clip in context, this is a jug band/hillbilly sort of number that we did as part of a big concert with my student orchestra in 1994, i.e. back in my wellspent youth. The skit as such is kinda stereotypically Dogpatch-y, and not all that funny, but the music I think I may say was honestly meant.
The song is one called Änglahund (Angel Dog), aka Får man ta hunden med sig opp i himlen? (Are You Allowed To Bring Your Dog With You Up To Heaven?). The original version, with Hasse “Kvinnaböske” Andersson, is a classic Swedish Country tear-jerker about an old man asking a musician after a gig if, when he comes to die, he will be allowed to take his dog with him to heaven (“he’s kind an’ nice, and his license is paid up”).
And it is very much sung, both in the original and by us, in a strong Southern (Swedish) accent …
Anyway. Will now cease and desist on this subject. Promise.
Cheers,
Mattias
Yup. That’s about right. Nice short pants!
Looks great as my computer background at work. I recognize most of the tools on the wall, but what is the item directly below the brace?
That’s not how you play the game, David!
(Plate 12, figure 18)
I still didn’t understand what it was until I looked at figure 19. Thanks.
Sorry for being dense. It is printed out now and hanging in the shop.
Christopher Thanks for the poster it will look great in the school/shop. Now seeing’s as I live in the PNW I would love to do that study on moss, we do have a lot of the wonderful stuff around here. the extra money form the study could buy me some exotic woods.
Man, I love this. I am sitting here drinking my fresh espresso this morning (west coast living), and your writing is terrific. Of course I will download the image, but I get more pleasure just reading and laughing while imagining that I am holding an espresso cup the size of a small car.
Sweet, two for one! A cool poster and the promise of your Greatest Moss Takes.
What a terrible pun. Where do you come up with these? https://images.app.goo.gl/qf3vxcJBvSCssR3J8
Here in Canada you get a free Dad joke implant when your first kid is born.
Free stuff. Thanks.
I like the stringer designed to make you fall down the stairs.
Here in the PNW anything can be made into a beer drinking game! I’ll pass a copy of the poster on to the president of the local home brewers club to work on. Thanks for all your work over the years.
Thank you, much appreciated!
You had me at drinking games. Thanks for the poster!
I’ve always wanted a pair of 7 foot tall dividers, this gives me the inspiration to make them! What would be the best material brass or iron?
Lead would probably be more appropriate to the era, or perhaps quicksilver.
Is it too much to ask that you photoshop the Fitz Gluebo cover into Plate 11?
Thanks. This will print handsomely at 13”x19” on my high resolution 8-color printer!
Ever pondered the shadows? I like to imagine we are viewing from the street kinda through windows. If that was natural light in a real shop, I think it explains why some benches are unused at this time of day, the tasks being done at other benches, and the location of the sharpening stone. Or I’ve wasted hours of my life starting at this page over the past few years.
Thank you so much for this and the ATC poster. One question; sad to say that this is the first time I’ve heard mention of “The Book of Plates” – does its non-appearance in your current books list mean that there are no copies to be had? I’ve tried other on-line book sites to no avail.
It was a one-time book. You can read more about it here:
https://blog.lostartpress.com/2019/06/05/nearing-the-end-of-the-book-of-plates/
And LOTS more here:
https://blog.lostartpress.com/?s=%22book+of+plates%22
This was the first time I’ve had a chance to look at the picture in detail that small copies in books don’t allow. Thank you. My question is whether the guy on the far right is working at the biggest sharpening stone ever, or mixing pigments for oil paint?