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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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 Baccio Baldini, one of the very earliest Italian engravers, born in 1437. It is a unique impression of a circular silver plate about four inches in diameter; one of a set of twenty-four, described in books as bought in Florence over a hundred years ago, and which were for many years the glory of the Otto collection in Leipzig. When this collection was broken up there were but eighteen of the original twenty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS. | 1/23/1873 | See Source »

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