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...Museum will place upon exhibition today an extremely valuable collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner, the famous English artist. The collection will include some oil paintings, a number of water-color drawings, and several pencil sketches. There will be an exhibition of mezzotints from Turner's Liber Studiorum at the same time in the Print Room...
Valuable prints have been added to the Gray Collection by purchase: The Adoration of the Magi, and S. Thomas, engravings by Martin Schongauer; Dumbarton Rock, Leader Sea-Piece, and Morpeth, etchings from the series of Turner's Liber Studiorum. Three prints have been purchased for the Randall Collection, namely: The Climbers, engraving by Marcantonio after Michelangelo, which is one of the few remaining traces of Michelangelo's famous cartoon of the "Battle with the Pisans" which strangely disappeared; a fine impression of the Judgment of Paris, also by Marcantonio, after Raphael; and Holy Island Cathedral, etching by Turner...
...Paul J. Sachs '00 has given Rembrandt's "Great Jewish Bride," the "Sheperdess Knitting," by Millet, sixty-one etchings by Jacquemart, and fifty-one etchings by Herman A. Webster. "The Furnace Nocturne," by Whistler came from an anonymous giver. Mr. Francis Bullard '86 presented the "Clyde" form Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and Lupton's copy of the "Mill near the Grand Chartreuse." Thirteen etchings by James D. Smillie were received form his son, Mr. James C. Smillie. The Nocturne, a lithotint by Whistler was purchased from the income of the Gray fund...
...Library of Congress the Catalogue of the Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection of Engravings, and the American Library Association Catalogue, have been received; from Mr. Francis Bullard '86, a Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Works of James McNeil Whistler, and a Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Liber Studiorum of J. M. W. Turner, held in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; from the trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, several Catalogues of Exhibitions held in the Print Department of that Museum. The following books have also been added: Harvard Quinquennial Catalogue; and A Critical Investigation...
...centre of the room is a selection of 36 plates from Turner's "Liber Studiorum." They consist of etchings from his own drawings and represent scenes in Scotland and England...