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Title: Landmarks in Print Collecting : Connoisseurs and Donors at the British Museum Since 1753 by Anthony Griffiths ISBN: 9-9969944-1-4 Publisher: British Museum Pubns Ltd Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $75.00

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Comment: 304 pages. Illust B&W & color. 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 of exceptional quality. All the major names of Western printmaking are represented, often in complete series and in excellent impressions. This book studies the history of this remarkable collection over the 250 years since the British Museum was founded in 1753. Ten essays by members of the Department are devoted to describing the principal gifts, bequests or purchases that now form the core of the Museum's holdings. The original collectors and benefactors were diverse; they included Sir Hans Sloane, the fashional society physician who founded the British Museum; the Reverend C. M. Cracherode, a shy bibliophile who never left London but who axquired an extraordinary collection of prints by Rembrandt; the lawyer Felix Slade; the lifelong friends William Mitchell and John Malcolm and the Australian born George Salting, who did nothing all of his life but collect, constantly trading one item for another. Around such figures worked the Keepers of the department, using the purchase funds allotted by the government to fill what gaps they perceived: one of these Keepers, Campbell Dodgson, himself became the greatest of twentieth century donors. To these essays are added nine extensive appendices with unpublished documents taken from the Museum's archives. The fullest account ever published of the growth of any part of a British national collectionm this book is an important contribution to the history of print collecitng, tracing the evolution of ideas about the purpose and function of prints and charting changes in taste. It is illustrated with 100 examples of the finest prints from the collections described in the essays.