Early German Masters
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content: Scrapbook of 140 engraved prints from the Marsh Collection. Printmakers whose works are represented are those considered in Marsh's time as German, some of whom were known as the "Little Masters," followers of Durer who worked in Nuremberg and Augsburg, Germany. Others were Flemish or French. Hand-lettered title, "Early German Masters," perhaps taken from earlier portfolio, is pasted onto the first sheet of the album.
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content: The prints are mounted four or five per page, with ink ruled borders and Bartsch numbers in Marsh's hand. A few larger prints are mounted as single sheets toward the back of the album. In discussions between Janice Ellis, Senior Paper Conservator, and curator Helena Wright, we speculated that Marsh might have mounted the prints on folded sheets of paper, and added the borders and numbers prior to having the sheets bound. While the binding appears to be from the middle of the 19th-century, it does not look like something Marsh himself would have ordered, so the album may have been bound after it arrived at SI or during its years of deposit at the Library of Congress, between 1865 and 1888.
label: Description (Brief)
content: A pdf showing the entire album is available on the Marsh Collection web page at http://marshcollection.si.edu.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Marsh Collection
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content: Marsh Collection
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1978.0534.01
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content: 1978.0534
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content: 1978.0534.01
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content: scrapbook
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content: print
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content: engraving