Exhibition of Prints and DrawingsAuthor(s): Arthur M. HindSource: The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 4 (1933), p. 139Published by: British MuseumStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4421497 .

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EXHIBITION OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS

THE Exhibition of the more important prints and drawings

acquired during the Keepership of Mr Campbell Dodgson (1 912-3 1) will remain open until the end of the year. It includes a great variety of material, arranged in centuries, and illustrates the wide scope of the late Keeper's taste and learning. French prints and drawings, to which notable additions were made in the period under review, have been given less space than they would naturally have received had the preceding exhibition not been devoted ex- clusively to French work. Among prints and drawings by Old Masters are remarkable examples such as Diirer's Bust of a Peasant Woman, to which Mr Dodgson himself contributed so generously, Holbein's Head of a Young Man, and a study for the Sistine Adam by Michelangelo; among the old prints the unique fifteenth-century Italian Descentfrom the Cross, and the splendid Venetian woodcut of the Battle of Zonchio (1499); while modern work is richly repre- sented in a large selection from the acquisition of the Contemporary Art Society's Prints and Drawings Fund, which was founded and administered by Mr Dodgson.

A guide to the exhibition, with complete list of the exhibits, is issued at the price of sixpence. A. M. H.

THE BRITISH RECORDS ASSOCIATION

WE are indebted to the Master of the Rolls for the following communication:

'There has been in recent years a great development of public interest in the work done, or to be done, upon Records in England. This has shown itself not only in the much larger number of students who now make use of the facilities afforded by the British Museum or the Public Record Office, and in a correspondingly large quantity of Record material published, mainly by private effort, in this country, but also in a marked increase in the amount of attention bestowed by private persons and public or semi-public institutions of all kinds upon the care and preservation of the documents in their possession.

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