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...Museum has received from Mr. Charles T. Murray, the water-color drawing of Devonport by J. M. W. Turner, a work of which John Ruskin, who once owned it, wrote--"No more wonderful drawing, take it all for all, exists by Turner's hand...
From Mr. E. W. Forbes '95 the Museum has received, as an indefinite loan, an early water-color by Turner; this loan brings the number of Turner's originals now in the Museum up to five, each one representing a different period in the artist's development...
...Fogg Museum has just acquired, as a gift from Mr. C. F. Murray of London, a very beautiful water-color drawing by J. M. W. Turner. This drawing is from the collection of the late John Ruskin, and is referred to in the printed catalogue of that collection as among the most wonderful drawings by the master's hand. It is now on view in the upper gallery of the Museum...
...Botanical Department has just received of Miss French of Boston two volumes of original water-color sketches of exotic and native plants. A few of the drawings will be exhibited from time to time in one of the cases in the balcony of the Botanical Museum. The outlines are all accurate, the coloring effective, and the execution very artistic...
...valuable drawings by Samuel Prout, the celebrated English water-color artist, have been taken from the walls of the freehand drawing room in Robinson Hall. One of these was a pencil and reed-pen drawing in brown ink of Louvain cathedral: the other and more valuable drawing was a small water-color of a mediaeval bridge and gate-tower with figures...