Word: gray
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Gray, 7. H. L. Williams...
...interesting question now, how the expected completion of the Fogg Art Museum will affect the disposition of such works of art as Harvard possesses. Of these, practically the only ones of great value are the two collections of engravings known from the names of their donors as the Gray and Randall collections, which are at present on exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston...
...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...
...article, which appeared in the last issue of the Cambridge Tribune. The article purports to be by a Harvard professor. After complaining at length, and with considerable justice, that the Fogg Museum is far from being what its donor intended it to be, he says in reference to the Gray and Randall collections, that "the trustees of the art museum in Boston evidently have no idea of surrendering them; neither is there any inclination on the part of the Harvard authorities to demand them, nor has any provision been made in the Fogg Art Museum for their...
Mile run - H. G. Gray...