DIVISION OF PRINTS (From the report of the Acting Chief, Professor Rice) The most important purchases of prints during the year PRINTS: have been: 1. Sixty-one of miscellaneous subjects, by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), English school. 2. Six by Mathilde de Cordoba, American school. 3. Twenty-nine by contemporary American, Dutch, English, French, and German artists. 4. Thirteen by the American marine painter, Charles H. Woodbury. 5. Thirty reproductions (in color) of paintings by old and modern masters, the publications of the Medici Society of London. 6. One hundred and thirty-nine reproductions (in color) of Louis Raemaeker's cartoons on the European war. 7. Twenty reproductions in colored collotype, of early Italian and German paintings. 8. Five hundred photographs of European architecture, and of celebrated paintings and sculpture in European galleries. 9. Sixty-three prints purchased with a part of the income of the Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hubbard fund, as an addition to the Gardiner Greene Hubbard Collection; by Bauer (1), Buhot (1), Dodd (1), Howarth (5), Jongkind (1), Lalanne (4), Linnig (1), Lurois (1), Maris (1), Mauve (1), Palmer (4), Platt (15), Storm van's Gravesande (21), Webster (4), Purchases Whistler (1), and Zilcken (1), representative of the American, 1. Two hundred and fifty-two photographs of paintings by modern American artists and 98 photographs of sculpture by contemporary American sculptors. They were presented by the artists in response to requests for photographs of their works. 2. Nineteen portraits of President R. B. Hayes. Presented by Colonel Webb C. Hayes, Fremont, Ohio. 3. Two original drawings and two prints by Storm van 'sGravesande. Presented by Professor R. A. Rice, Library of Congress. 4 Engraving. "Marching through Georgia," by A. H. Ritchie, after F. O. C. Darley, signed proof. Presented by Mis FOC Darley. The war in Europe has possibly interfered more with accessions of importance to the various collections of the Division of Prints than with those in other Divisions of the Library; a large number of recommendations for purchase #ae nodessanly hold up by lack of facilities for shipment. Among the books received during the fiscal year ending TH 80, 10,6, a few are selected for mention: Ropebot Hons. Prandor. Marc Xavier Los primitifs français, 1202– ་་༔ Gripling Gibbons and his compeers. Lon Mómoita ináðið, de Charles Nicolas Cochin 133 Ne dank de Calpe Tomobasdan, le Sladtz Paris Baur, 1880. Pop from the diaries and correspondenec of John Poolor why Numpe, Borsa relating to engreving London Ellis, De. Meinx, galdechmuck de, kaiserin Gisela. 1. Tiny Tosin 1869, da sindigos 446 Semmstwissenschaft 10.3. bosan Boro Adol dog Theaeta, engraving London. Fons amoris sive Emblemata amatoria. Prima et secunda pars. Ex officina Crispiani Passei. [n. p., n. d.] Foster, Joshua James. A list of works of English miniature painters of the XVII century. London, Dickinsons, 1914–16. Samuel Cooper and the English miniature painters of the xvII century. London, Dickinsons, 1914-16. Gruyer, Gustave. L'art ferrarais à l'époque des princes d'Este. Hawkshaw, John Clarke. Japanese sword-mounts. London, 1910. 1880. Locquin, Jean. La peinture d'histoire en France de 1747 à 1785. Lyon, J. T. Creative and imitative art: decoration and ornamenta- Maximilian I, emperor of Germany. Freydal. Des kaisers Maxi- Nomura, Shojiro. An historical sketch of nishiki and kinran brocades. Oxford. University. Christ Church college. Library: Drawings by Sirén, Osvald. Leonardo da Vinci. New Haven, Yale University Thiis, Jens Peter. Leonardo da Vinci i Florentinertiden. Kristi- Vollard, Ambroise. Paul Cézanne. Paris, Galerie A. Vollard, 1914. Westall, William. Thirty-five views on the Thames. London, Rod- Bégule, Lucien. L'église Saint-Maurice. Paris, H. Laurens, 1914. Chambers, Sir William. A treatise on the decorative part of civil Cottingham, Lewis Nockalls. Plans, elevations, sections, details, and views, of the magnificent chapel of King Henry the Seventh at Westminster abbey church. London, Priestley and Weale, 1822-29. 64394-16-7 Architecture Dollman, Francis Thomas. The priory of St. Mary Overie, Southwark. London, the author, 1881. Felibien, André. Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des maisons royalles et bastimens de France. Paris, J. Baur, 1874 Gibbs, John. Domestic architecture and ornament in detail. Oxford. The author, 1808. Gotch, John Alfred. A complete account of the buildings erected in Northamptonshire, by Sir Thomas Tresham, between the years 1575 and 1005. Northampton, Taylor and son, 1883. Jackson, Sir Thomas Graham. Gothic architecture in France, England and Italy. Cambridge. University press, 1915. Laborde, Leon Emmanuel Simon Joseph. Les comptes des bâtiments du roi 1538 1571), Paris, J. Baur, 187-80 Lewis, George Robert. Illustrations of Kilpeck church. Herefordshire London, G. R Lewis, 1842. Mawson, Thomas Hayton. Calgary a preliminary scheme for controlling the economic growth of the city. Londea. New York, T. H. Mawson and sons. 1014 Riveira, G. Tereso Architettura musulmana Milano, U. Hoepli, ples of Grecian and Roman archiverna mument. Lain. J. B. Nichol and M. Š The work of forming and arranging a defection of Mus trated books has Non varied forward 1: & intended to Resentative PAN PARrs of the art as these alone render adequately the design of the artist. In every case the "state" of the illustration is to be examined and in virtue of its condition a decision reached as to whether it is fit to form a part of the collection or not. There are already in the Library a large number of illustrated books, acquired for the most part without reference to the quality of the illustrations or even the fact of illustration, which may be found worthy material for this collection; these are now in process of sifting and selection. In connection with this work, as many of the works of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries exist only in a few copies, it has seemed advisable where such are to be found in public collections of this section of the country to make record of them, so that students may know where they can be seen and the Library of Congress be relieved of the demand for their acquisition. The following exhibitions were put in place during the Exhibitions year: 1. Collection of 194 modern prints, representative of the American, Dutch, English, French, and German schools. 2. Collection of 279 mezzotints from the T. Harrison Garrett, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, and Library collections. This exhibition has proved of great interest in a study of the development of this special process of engraving, and has afforded a comparison of the various schools represented. Of interest also were the portraits of celebrated people, forming the greater part of the exhibition. An opportunity was given to art students for the study of the works of artists of the most important schools of painting. 3. Twenty-five lithographs published by the Senefelder Society of London, lent by the American Federation of Arts, Washington, D. C. 4. Thirty-one original drawings by the American etcher, Lester George Hornby, illustrating Leupp's "Walks about Washington," lent by the artist. |