Word: durer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...print collections have been considerably augmented. To the Gray Collection have been added, by purchase with the income of the Gray Fund, Calvary, a woodcut by Durer; Prophet Jeremiah, a copper-plate engraving of the Baldini-Botticelli series; and a reproduction of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. To the Museum Collection: Rivers of England, 18 prints (engraved in mezzotint after designs by J. M. W. Turner), by J. Bromley, T. Lupton, G. H. Phillips, S. W. Reynolds, W. Say, and C. Turner, a gift from Miss Elizabeth G. Norton; a portfolio of 40 prints, engraved in mezzotint and stipple, facsimiles...
There is also on view the permanent exhibition of prints by Durer, Goltzius, and Van Leyden, the three great masters of the primitive schools...
...Gray and Randall collections of engravings in the Fogg Museum are now on exhibition in the table cases, and in cases 19 and 20 on the wall in the print room. Works of the following engravers are shown: Baldini-Batticelli group, Stefano della Bella, Antonio Canal, Albrecht Durer, Hendrik Goltzius, Mare-Antonio, Jean Morin, Rembrandt, Martin Schongauer, J. M. W. Turner, an unknown Italian artist of sixteenth century, and Michael Wolgemut. The exhibition includes also the "Liber Veritatis" of Claude Lorrain, engraved by Richard Earlom; and engravings after Turner, bound in five volumes, with Roger's "Italy" and his poems...
Recent additions to the print collections comprise an original impression from a Florentine niello plate, the print of the Ravisher by Durer, and nine plates of Turner's Liber Studiorum in the etched state, including the following subjects: Jason, Hindoo Worshiper, Lauffenbourgh, Crypt of Kirkstall Abbey, Hedging and Ditching, River Wye, Solitude, Glaucus and Scylla, and Sheep Washing...
...print collection nine etchings of the Liber Studiorum, by Turner, mostly the work of the master's own hand, have been added by the Fine Arts Department; and eight others, with six teen copper prints of Durer's Passion, have been purchased from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The income of the Randall fund has been used for expenses of mounting, arranging, and cataloguing the Randall collection, so that no increase has been made in the number of these engravings...