Word: print
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divisions of the greatest period are: first, the temple art, for the decoration of sanctuaries, and second, landscape painting. From this popularization of art came the demand that resulted in the print. At first only the block outline was printed and the color was put in by hand...
...Shaw '69, librarian of the Theatre Collection, has begun a catalogue of the 50,000 prints included in the collection, These prints were given to the Library by Mr. Shaw and by bequest of Mr. Evert Janson Wendell '82. The catalogue will be modeled after that of the British Museum and will describe the prints in sufficient detail to enable a reader to identify any print of which he is doubtful. The catalogue is to-be arranged alphabetically according to the name of the person portrayed and will give such details as description of the subject, size, engraver, printer, date...
...oldest pictures of the University in existence, a print entitled "A Prospect of the Colleges in Cambridge in New England", carries a footnote lauding the zealousness of the students in striving for the public welfare. Perhaps the British engraver changed his opinion after the events of the last half of the century; but the interest of the Harvard undergraduates in public affairs kept on unabated...
...bearing an object lesson in thrift, the picture of Benjamin Franklin. Because the ignorant foreigner must not be overlooked, he will receive on his letters a rotogravure in color of Theodore Roosevelt. Those who insist upon buying their clothes and house furnishings by mail will be edified by a print of the Yosemite Valley or of Niagara Falls on the outside of the package. The insidious part of this business, looking at it from the college viewpoint is that the victim will be receiving education when he least expects it--with his latest book catalogue for instance...
...exhibition of a selection from the recent acquisitions of Prints has been placed on view in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum. Among the prints shown are three XVth Century paste prints; a cut from a XVth Century edition of the Apocalypse block book; XVth and Early XVIth Century wood cuts made from illustrations in printed books; XVth Century Florentine engravings; The Judgement of Paris, one of the early and very rare prints by Marcantonio; a beautiful impression of Mantegna's Seated Virgin; two large engravings by the North Italian, Mocetto; and prints by Ingres, Fragonard, Manet, Daumier...