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...recent purchases the Fogg Museum has now on exhibition three new valuable works of art. These are, the Jacobsen collection, consisting of one hundred and four photographs of ancient sculpture in the Museum of Copenhagen: a set of engravings for the Gray Collection, comprising eight etchings of Turner's "Liber Studiorum," which the Museum has been fortunate in obtaining, as none have been on sale since 1891; and a collection of two hundred and thirty photographs obtained from the administration of the Berlin Galleries. Among these pictures of notable ancient sculpture is that of one style of the Meleager statue...
...another unidentified picture of the same period belonging to the Italian or Flemish school. In the collection of antiquities on the first floor of the Museum are two new objects, a vase, and a fragment of a head which are both by Greek artists. The prints of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and the collection of engravings and wood cuts by Albrecht Durer are still on exhibition...
...Italian artists represented the most important are: Andrea Mantegua, Marc Antonio Rainmondi, Boldini, Giovanni Antonio, and Robetta. One whole case is given up to the "Liber Studiorum" of Turner and beside these are placed some valuable etchings by Claude Lorraine. There are some beautiful impressions by Durer from "The Melencolia," "The Great Fortune," and "The Shield and Skull." In addition to these are his portraits of Melanchthon, Piekheimer and Erasmus. These are all metal engravings. Among the wood engravings by Durer are a number from "The Great Passion," and "The Little Passion," which are two of his most valuable series...
...Liber, Brown's Annual, will not appear until Easter...
...Liber Brunensis is in progress of construction...