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ROBERT F. MASSA, 63 Gorham St. W. G. MORTLAND, 38 Perkins Hall.LEWIS J. BIRD CO., Auctioneers, 32 Bromfield street, Boston, announce that their annual sale of Old English Sporting Prints and Engravings (very rare), Mezzotints, Caricatures, etc., will take place at their salesrooms during the week of Nov. 1. They...
By vote of the Corporation, Monday, it was finally decided that the Gray collection of engravings should be brought from Boston and placed in the Fogg Art Museum.
The famous Gray collection was bequeathed to Harvard College thirty years ago by Francis Calley Gray of the class of 1809. For some years it remained in Gore hall, until in 1876 it was loaned to the Boston Art Museum, there being at the time no place in Cambridge suitable...
It will be by far the most important display in the Museum. The intrinsic value of the collection cannot be overestimated, as much as $1600 having been paid for a single print. There are about 20,000 engravings in all, including engravings from their own works by Albrecht, Durer, and...
Professor Moore will attend to the arrangement of the collection and expects to have it ready for inspection at the opening of the fall term.