Word: cell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prints by the greatest German master, Durer. Among the latter are woodcuts from the great series--the Apocalypse, Great Passion and Small passion--one of his six etchings, one of his four dry-points, and a number of the copper-plate: Adam and Eve, St. Terome in his Cell, Nelancholia and the Knight, Death and the Devil...
...last letter, we found a pile of mutilated leaves, of a smaller size and more compact than those of the newspaper. These also proved to contain writing when subjected to the water test. As we had difficulty in entering this building, which was in the nature of a cell, we came to the conclusion that it was a storehouse either for precious documents or for matter which had been banned and stored away from the public eye under lock and key. The material in the documents, which took the form of small tracts or pamphlets, made the latter explanation seem...
...Sidney Flowers in Los Angeles. Mooney and Billings went to prison on wholly fabricated evidence; the judges in the Centralia case made rulings without a show of regard for the truth; and stool-pigeons were used in the Flowers case; one of them was lately planted in a cell next to Sacco in an effort to get him to commit himself in conversation...
...German prints are on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum. Among the engravings shown are examples of the work of Master E. S. and Martin Schongauer, and a large number of splendid impressions from Albrecht Durer's most important plates, including the St. Jerome in his Cell, the Knight, Death and the Devil, and Melancholia. Durer's followers,--the Little Masters, the Behams, Altdorfer, Aldegrever, and Pencz, are represented by typical engravings...
...German school there is a print by the Master E. S., the first great German engraver; several by Martin Schongauer, and six by Albrecht Durer. The Durer group includes a wonderful silvery impression of St. Jerome in his Cell, a fine impression of the enigmatical Melancholia, who still ponders as she has been doing for 400 years, and a superb Knight of Death. A drawing by Durer for a wood-cut adds especial interest to the little group of works by this great...