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The Fogg Museum has recently received, through the generosity of Samuel Sachs, the Lehrs collection of reproductions numbering over 2,700 pieces. It consists of photographs and photo-mechanical reproductions chiefly of prints, but also of paintings, drawings, wood-carvings, and other objects by the authors of prints, and objects related to prints in design.
It contains hundreds of reproductions of early German engravings, the working materials used by Dr. Max Lehrs, one of the world's greatest print scholars, in preparing his monumental work in five volumes, "Geschichte and Kritischer Katalog des Deutschen, Niederlacndischen and Franzoesischen Kupferstichs im XV Jahrhundert", and of articles written by him on sixteenth century German engravers.
This collection is invaluable to the student of prints, for it contains many unpublished reproductions of prints which are either unique or excessively rare and very widely scattered, and makes possible a serious study of early German engraving. It is particularly enlightening in showing the close relationship between engraving and other forms of art and the use made by artists in other media of designs used by engravers.
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