Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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But these are only two of the very earliest, while every school and age has some representatives in the collection. As Mr. Gray was particularly interested in those painters who engraved their own works, the collection is particularly rich in the works of Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, and other peintres-graveurs...
It would be extremely difficult to compare this collection with others in Europe or America, for some are more complete in the works of one particular master, a great many more numerous, and one, even in this country, more costly; but we believe it is not overstepping the limits of...
Though it has been known in a general way, for over a year, in undergraduate circles, that this collection could be seen by any one who eared to make application to the Curator, it has been as little visited by them as another object of interest in Cambridge, - our fine...
Probably not more than one in fifty of those now in college have ever seen the engravings, and yet there are some good reasons for it; the limited time of the Curator, the small space allotted to them in the Library, and the number of applications from persons not in...
Applications are made by note, and only a few, in the order of their application, can be accommodated in the one alcove at a time.