Word: allings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Of all respectable, well-ordered schools
This, and subsequent visits to all parts of Europe, developed in him an intense love for art, and he devoted all the energies of his cultivated mind to its study. The result of this was the gradual acquisition of this magnificent collection of over five thousand engravings and a valuable...
But these are only two of the very earliest, while every school and age has some representatives in the collection. As Mr. Gray was particularly interested in those painters who engraved their own works, the collection is particularly rich in the works of Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, and other peintres-graveurs...
It would be extremely difficult to compare this collection with others in Europe or America, for some are more complete in the works of one particular master, a great many more numerous, and one, even in this country, more costly; but we believe it is not overstepping the limits of...