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A descriptive catalogue of early prints in the British museum German and Flemish schools (1879)

British Museum. Dept. of Prints and Drawings, Willshire, William Hughes 1816-1899 · London : Longmans · leaf 10

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they could be while left undistin-guished and dispersed among the general collection. The examples described in the present work are anony-mous prints chiefly of the German and Flemish schools ofthe fifteenth and the first quarter of the sixteenth century. It is intended that the Catalogue now… … vi P BE FACE. In tlie performance of the duty which has devolved onthe author, he has endeavoured to lighten somewhait thedryness of mere technical details by occasional referenc^es tothe symbolism and legendary histories which many of theexamples described directly illustrate. These references…

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