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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...employed to supplement and polish, as it were, the work of the Goody in the rooms of those rich enough to maintain men of such expensive habits, furnish from their number a character both interesting to the student of mythical history and dreadful to the midnight wayfarer. His very name implies the cunning and treachery of a demon, - Slippery Mike. I shudder as I write...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COLLEGE CHARACTER. | 1/28/1873 | See Source »

...THIS rich and valuable collection of engravings was bequeathed to the College by Francis C. Gray, LL.D., a graduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS. | 1/23/1873 | See Source »

...these are only two of the very earliest, while every school and age has some representatives in the collection. As Mr. Gray was particularly interested in those painters who engraved their own works, the collection is particularly rich in the works of Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt, and other peintres-graveurs. There are also impressions of all the finest of Raphael's drawings, done on copper by Raimondi, and under Raphael's own supervision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRAY COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS. | 1/23/1873 | See Source »

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