Word: mezzotint
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...Collection have been added, by purchase with the income of the Gray Fund, Calvary, a woodcut by Durer; Prophet Jeremiah, a copper-plate engraving of the Baldini-Botticelli series; and a reproduction of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. To the Museum Collection: Rivers of England, 18 prints (engraved in mezzotint after designs by J. M. W. Turner), by J. Bromley, T. Lupton, G. H. Phillips, S. W. Reynolds, W. Say, and C. Turner, a gift from Miss Elizabeth G. Norton; a portfolio of 40 prints, engraved in mezzotint and stipple, facsimiles of engravings by James Ward and William Ward...
...more important additions to the Gray collection are thirteen prints of Turner's Liber Studiorum in the etched state and two plates in the same series in the mezzotint state. The Liber series now contains many choice impressions in mezzotint and forty-one rare etchings...
...Randall collection have been added, by transfer from the College Library, several mezzotint portraits by Copley and Pelham. 1,124 additions have been made to the collection of photographs, including illustrations of Mediaeval, Renaissance and Modern Architecture, as well as examples of Ancient Greek and Roman Architecture and Sculpture...
...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...