Word: printing
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Some etchings by Dutch and Flemish masters of the seventeenth century are now on view upon the south and east walls of the print room in the Fogg Museum. They include works by Rembrandt, Van der Vliet, Both, Paul Potter, Bol, Ruysdael, Van Ostade, Teniers, Berchem, Van de Velde, and others. These works have an especial interest as illustrating the Dutch feeling for landscape and common life at the time when such subjects were first treated independently...
Henceforth the Bulletin will print the news of Harvard and the more interesting news from other colleges with greater detail than heretofore. It is intended that later in the year the number of pages, now four, will be increased...
...Simile Reproductions Relating to Old Boston and Neighborhood," by S. A. Green '51 ex-mayor of Boston, is a book containing fac-similes of the following documents: The earliest American newspaper, printed in 1690; Hubbard's map of New England, 1677; the Rev. Samuel Willard's "Useful Instructions," 1673; the earliest Boston imprint, 1675; the earliest medical treatise printed in this country, 1678; the earliest book-eatalogue published in America, 1693; Bonner's map of Boston, 1722; the earliest print of Harvard College, 1726; a plot of Cambridge Common, 1784; Butler's map of Groton, Massachusetts, 1832. The print...
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...
Professor Moore calls special attention to the great opportunity which is afforded to members of the University by the fine print collections of the Museum. The Gray and Randall collections together afford materials for a thorough study of engraving from its earliest beginnings and in all its varieties. These collections include a considerable number of rare and costly prints, such as are seldom to be seen elsewhere than in Europe...