Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Permit me to call the attention of your readers to the fact that there is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum the so-called Fairfax Murray (or Seddon) portrait of Chaucer, which, next to the illumination by this disciple Occleve in a manuscript of the early fifteenth century, is probably the best likeness of the poet in existence. Alongside it in the Museum has been placed a book describing all extant portraits of Chaucer, with a photographic reproduction of each...
...portrait has been kindly loaned for the exhibition by Professor Norton, its present owner, and will remain on public view about a fortnight. So favorable an opportunity of examining it with ease no student who is interested in Chaueer should neglect...
Last year Mr. Arnold gave the portrait of Professor J. B. Thayer '52 and has shown his interest in the welfare of the Union by presenting it with subscriptions to several periodicals...
There has been placed on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum a collection of over 200 seventeenth century portrait engravings. The prints show the development during this period and the character of the work of its masters, including, from the Low Countries, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Vorsterman, and Paul Pontius; and from the French school, Jean Morin, Mellan, Nanteuil, Edelinck, and Drevet...
...more important additions to the Gray collection of engravings are two etchings by Rembrant and four plates of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" in the etched state, and also a portrait of Gustav Kruell engraved on wood by himself, presented by Professor C. E. Norton. A large number of plates, including the so-called Richmondshire series, have been presented to the Museum collection by Mr. F. Bullard...