Evening star., 1939-01-02
Miss sHegenlan Found
To Be Donor Of Art
Collection 10 Library
Rore Enerovines and
Other Works Given
Without Publicity
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
Miss Annie-May Hegeman OF
Pittsburgh, it became known today,
was the anonymous donor of a COL
lection of rare engravings litho-
graphs and colored mezzotints now
installed in the Print Division of the
Library of Congress.
The gift was made without pub
hcity, but it is regarded as one of
the most notable of its kind ever re-
ceived by the congressional biblio-
graphic establishment.
, Included in the collection are two
colored stipple engravings by Samuel
Aiken, produced in 1901, after paint
ings by George Morland Q764-l8O4) =,
both entitled "Sportsmen Refresh
ing; print published by William
Allen OF Dublin, captioned Mo-
ments of Reflection; a print by
Francesca Bartolozzi I727-1815)
after Sir Thomas Lawrence 1769-
l830), and print by Thomas Burke
Q749-l8l5), dated 1902.
Also. IA Autographs by Alexandra
Calame. Swiss landscape painter and
engraver Q8l0-l864, the titles in
Guiding: Mont Blanc" Mountain
Stream" Mountain Scenery"
"Jungfrau." ""Souvenir of Rosenlani," i"
Oak at Sunset" Group of Trees"
"Fishermans Hut" Approaching
Storm" Waves Dashing Against a
Cliff" Forest Interior"
Other Artists
Other artists represented are An
toine Carbon u7731813, after
Francis Wheatly 1747-18OD, Cries
of London, No. g." 1895; Benjamin
Duterreau, after George Morland,
THE Farmers Door: Innocenso
Ceremia 1776-1836?), after Luigi
Schiavonetti Q765-l8lO, Maternal
Instruction.; John Jones 174O?-
1797, after William Redmore Rigg
l775-l828), "Dulce Domun or the
Return From School,; Jean Nicholas
Laugier 1785-1865), after Jacques
Louis David l748-1825), "Leonidas
at Thermopylae"; John Raphael
Smith u752-1812), after George
Morland, THE Cowherd and Milk
maid" 1898; James Ward 1769-
1889, THE Mothers Bribe.' 1918;
James Henry Watt 1799- 1850, after
Thomas Stothard u755- 1880, The
Procession of the Fitch of Bacon. !"
1888; David Weiss 1775-1846), after
George Morland, "A Tea Garden" :"
1900, and Adrian Jacques Antoine
Migneret 0786-1840), after Charles
Steuben Q788-1856), Peter the
Great in Storm on Lake Ladoga."
Keating Engravings Included.
Three colored stipple engravings
designed by George Heating 1762-
1902 after George Morland and
Francis Wheatley constitute sep
arate group. The titles are: The
Anglers Repast," The Cottager's
Wealth" and Tenderness Persuad-
Ing Reluctance at the School Door"
Similarly, a pair of engravings
by Robert Mitchell Meadows. dated
1916, reproduce Morland's Gath
erlng Fruit" and Gathering Wood"
and three by Edmund Scott. 1890,
the same artists Angry Farmer"
Boys Robbing an Orchard" and
Skating"
Moreland's alehouse series in COL
ored mezzotint by R. S. Syer are
companion pieces, the one showing
the outer door, the other the
kitchen.
Half dozen engravings by Will
liam Ward u766-l826) copy paint
ings famous in his day, the titles
including: Effects of Youthful Ex-
travagance and Idleness." Nurse
and Children in the Fields The
Romps," The Warrener," Cow
House THE Country Batch"
Transaction Made Long Ago.
Especially interesting are four line
engravings, officially described as:
"Oedipe,' by Antoine Alexandra
Morel 1765-1829 after Antoine
Giroust 1753-181O; "Ludimus," by
Raphael Morghen 1758-1833) after
Nicholas Poussin 1593-1665); "Quos
Ego" by Bernard Picart 1673-1735)
after Antoine Coypel 1661-1722);
"Andromache," by Joseph Theodore
Richomme after Pierre Guerin
I774-1823).
Most of the prints are large in
size and all are attractively framed.
Miss Hegeman personally super
vised her gift. The transaction was
completed several years ago, but
came to light only in relation to her
designation of the home of her STEP
father, the late Representative Henry
Kirke Porter of Pennsylvania, Six
!, efr l, i
for endowment of the work of the
Library of Congress and the Smith
sonian Institution.