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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Excerpt from Handbook to the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: With Introduction and Notices of the Various Schools: Italian, German, Dutch and Flemish, Spanish, French, and English The Engravings in each school are placed first, the Drawings immediately follow. In both cases the works are arranged chronologically. A sketch is given of the lives of the leading Masters, and, as a rule, three Specimens of the works of each Master are described. These specimens have all been chosen, of course, from the Museum Collection. N o doubt other important works of some of the artists might have been noticed, but the compiler of this Handbook believes that those which he has select...