Landmarks in print collecting : connoisseurs and donors at the British Museum since 1753 / edited by Antony Griffiths.
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TextPublication details: London : Published by the British Museum Press and the Parnassus Foundation in association with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, c1996.Description: 304 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cmISBN: - 0714126063 (cased)
- 769.12 GRI
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 769.12 GRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000218157 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum holds one of the world's greatest collections of prints, consisting of more than two million items. This book studies the history of the British Museum's collection of prints and drawings from the founding of the Museum in 1753. Ten essays describe the principal gifts, bequests and purchases that now form the core of the Museum's holding and nine appendices with unpublished documents taken from the Museum's archives are included. The book is illustrated with 100 examples of the finest prints from the collections described in the essays.
Published to accompany an exhibition to be shown at the following venues: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ; Huntington Art Collections ; The Baltimore Museum of Art ; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.