Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THIS rich and valuable collection of engravings was bequeathed to the College by Francis C. Gray, LL.D., a graduate of 1809.
He was a contributor to the North American Review and the author of several pamphlets. For some time he held the position of private secretary to John Quincy Adams, and was in Russia with him in that capacity.
This, and subsequent visits to all parts of Europe, developed in him an intense love for art, and he devoted all the energies of his cultivated mind to its study. The result of this was the gradual acquisition of this magnificent collection of over five thousand engravings and a valuable...
To try to give even the most meagre description of the collection would be a fruitless task; every one who is interested in art ought to examine it for himself and pass judgment upon it; still, we may mention here two gems of the collection. One is an engraving by...
The other is a fine specimen of the skill of "The Master E. S., 1466," the earliest-known German engraver. Hardly known either, for it is uncertain what his family name was, and it is only supposed that he was the first to use a rolling press and make copper...