Landmarks in Print Collecting: Connoisseurs and Donors at the British Museum Since 1753 - Softcover

 
9780714126098: Landmarks in Print Collecting: Connoisseurs and Donors at the British Museum Since 1753
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0714126098 ISBN 13: 9780714126098
Publisher: British Museum Press, 1996

Synopsis

The Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum holds one of the world's greatest collections of prints, consisting of more than two million items. This book studies the history of the British Museum's collection of prints and drawings from the founding of the Museum in 1753. Ten essays describe the principal gifts, bequests and purchases that now form the core of the Museum's holding and nine appendices with unpublished documents taken from the Museum's archives are included. The book is illustrated with 100 examples of the finest prints from the collections described in the essays.

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Publisher
British Museum Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0714126098
ISBN 13 
9780714126098
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304
Editor
Griffiths Antony

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