Guide To An Exhibition Of Drawings And Sketches By The Old Masters

Author : British Museum; Dept; Of Prints and Drawings
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330123720
Total Pages : 70 pages
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Download or read book Guide to an Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches by Old Masters and Deceased Artists of the English School, Principally Acquired Between 1895 and 1901 written by British Museum; Dept; Of Prints and Drawings and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guide to an Exhibition of Drawings and Sketches by Old Masters and Deceased Artists of the English School, Principally Acquired Between 1895 and 1901 As it is only lately that these particular specimens have been identified, assigned to their respective artists, and removed from the album, they are practically new to students, and have been included in the exhibition accordingly. A large number of the most interesting drawings shown, both foreign and English, come from the bequest of a well-known amateur, the late Mr. Henry Vaughan, who died in January 1900, leaving to the Trustees of the British Museum drawings and sketches to the number of nearly 400 (among which those by Flaxman and Stothard count for nearly two-thirds), as well as upwards of a hundred plates from Turner's Liber Studiorum needed to complete the five series already in the possession of the Trustees. Among various minor gifts and bequests special acknowledgment is due for a fine late drawing by Michelangelo, four by Primaticcio, and ono by Rembrandt, from the representatives of the late Dr. Radford of Sidmouth. Every drawing acquired otherwise than by purchase is marked on the mount with the name of the person by whom it was given or bequeathed. The drawings exhibited are divided into two series. Series A consists of the work of the foreign schools, and occupies all the cases on the floor of the room except one, as well as the central screen. Series B, consisting of the works of English artists or artists of foreign origin working entirely in England, is set out in the wall-cases lining the room, and runs over into one table-case. Both series begin immediately to the left of the visitor as he enters from the Glass and Ceramic Gallery. The swing-frames in the middle of the room are for the present still occupied with the collection of seventeenth century etchings which was placed there in 1899 to supplement and furnish comparisons with the work of Rembrandt. The following guide has been compiled for the most part by Mr. Laurence Binyon, assistant in the Department of Prints and Drawings. The attributions of two drawings, Nos. A 8 and A 49, have been suggested by Mr. Berenson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.