How to preserve a pencil drawing?

Booklady
Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:04:59 +0000

It’s wonderful that you have something like this from your dad. You can take the drawing to a paper conservator, who will treat the paper so it won’t yellow any further. Framing it properly will protect it better than anything else, and this should be done using an acid-free mat and UV plexiglass - a good frame shop can do this for you. After that, the most important thing is to hang it out of direct sunlight. It will cost a few hundred dollars to do these things, but then it will be preserved for generations to come.