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...print room. Works of the following engravers are shown: Baldini-Batticelli group, Stefano della Bella, Antonio Canal, Albrecht Durer, Hendrik Goltzius, Mare-Antonio, Jean Morin, Rembrandt, Martin Schongauer, J. M. W. Turner, an unknown Italian artist of sixteenth century, and Michael Wolgemut. The exhibition includes also the "Liber Veritatis" of Claude Lorrain, engraved by Richard Earlom; and engravings after Turner, bound in five volumes, with Roger's "Italy" and his poems...
...small early drawing (belonging to the Department of Fine Arts), and also an excellent example of his middle period (loaned by Mr. Francis Bullard '86 of Boston), an instructive synoptical illustration of the development of Turner's genius is given. These drawings, together with the prints of the Liber Studiorum in the Gray Collection, and the larger works in oil color lately acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, have afforded an opportunity to study at first hand the artistic powers of this great modern master, such as has not before existed in this country. Also from Mr. Forbes...
...more important additions to the Gray Collection are ten prints of Turner's Liber Studiorum in the etched state and two plates in the same series in the mezzotint state. 200 phototype reproductions of drawings by Rembrandt have been procured, but the resources of the Museum have been so small that practically no other additions to the collection of photographs have been made. To the Randall Collection has been added a metal engraving by Vitale, a gift from Mrs. F. D. Bergen. In making additions to the print collections the Museum endeavors primarily to fill the most important gaps...
Recent additions to the print collections comprise an original impression from a Florentine niello plate, the print of the Ravisher by Durer, and nine plates of Turner's Liber Studiorum in the etched state, including the following subjects: Jason, Hindoo Worshiper, Lauffenbourgh, Crypt of Kirkstall Abbey, Hedging and Ditching, River Wye, Solitude, Glaucus and Scylla, and Sheep Washing...
...print collection nine etchings of the Liber Studiorum, by Turner, mostly the work of the master's own hand, have been added by the Fine Arts Department; and eight others, with six teen copper prints of Durer's Passion, have been purchased from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The income of the Randall fund has been used for expenses of mounting, arranging, and cataloguing the Randall collection, so that no increase has been made in the number of these engravings...