Brummer Collection
Published: 1950
Language: eng
Format: [graphic]
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Photographs; Art collections; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Notes: Album title from cover.

"The following are photographs of some of the most important objects acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Joseph Brummer, and from his estate after his death in 1947. The first two digits of each accession number give the year of acquisition of the object. Objects with the accession numbers 30.77.6-9; 32.147; 37.159; 46.20; and 47.101 were acquired for The Cloisters, the medieval branch of the Museum. For further information see "The Cloisters" 1951, a handbook to the building and the collection by James J. Rorimer. For further information on objects of Near Eastern art see "A handbook of Muhammadan art," 1944 by M.S. Dimand"--leaf [2].

Album of black-and white mounted photographs of various sizes; captions in English.