Landmarks in Print Collecting
Connoisseurs and Donors at the British Museum Since 1753
Antony Griffiths(Editor)
British Museum Press
Published in March 1996
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-7141-2609-8 (ISBN)
Description
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the principal gifts, bequests and purchases that now form the core of the Museum's holding and nine appendices with unpublished documents taken from the Museum's archives are included.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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
9 colour and 159 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 276 mm
Width: 219 mm
Weight
1280 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7141-2609-8 (9780714126098)
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