Word: calley
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Dates: during 1895-1895
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...Gray collection was bequeathed to Harvard in 1856 by the will of Francis Calley Gray, of the class of 1809. Mr. Gray had gathered the engravings in the course of his extended travels abroad, and had taken great pains to have them all of the highest quality. The result was a most valuable collection, numbering in the rough seven or eight thousand, and so selected as admirably to illustrate the history of engraving and printing from the time of the old masters. The Randall collection, while almost four times as large, was selected with less discriminating care...