Word: liberalism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There is now on exhibition in the print room of the Fogg Art Museum a collection of prints loaned to the Museum by Mr. Francis Bullard '86. In this collection are some very rare impressions from the plates of Turner's "Liber Studiorum," including a number of trial proofs illustrating the development of the plates. The exhibition includes some of the finest etchings of Whistler, and others whose works are represented in the collection are J. F. Lewis, Ferdinand Gaillard, Jasinski, Paul Rajou, John Ruskin, Lucas Vorsterman the elder, and J. M. W. Turner...
...more important additions to the Gray collection are thirteen prints of Turner's Liber Studiorum in the etched state and two plates in the same series in the mezzotint state. The Liber series now contains many choice impressions in mezzotint and forty-one rare etchings...
...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...
...small early drawing (belonging to the Department of Fine Arts), and also an excellent example of his middle period (loaned by Mr. Francis Bullard '86 of Boston), an instructive synoptical illustration of the development of Turner's genius is given. These drawings, together with the prints of the Liber Studiorum in the Gray Collection, and the larger works in oil color lately acquired by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, have afforded an opportunity to study at first hand the artistic powers of this great modern master, such as has not before existed in this country. Also from Mr. Forbes...
...more important additions to the Gray Collection are ten prints of Turner's Liber Studiorum in the etched state and two plates in the same series in the mezzotint state. 200 phototype reproductions of drawings by Rembrandt have been procured, but the resources of the Museum have been so small that practically no other additions to the collection of photographs have been made. To the Randall Collection has been added a metal engraving by Vitale, a gift from Mrs. F. D. Bergen. In making additions to the print collections the Museum endeavors primarily to fill the most important gaps...