OLD MASTERS IN PRINTS

MONG the recent additions to the Library's print room are a number of old

and periods, and emphasize, even in this small selection of prints, the wide variety in style, mood, and temperament offered in the study of the reproductive graphic arts. The lot includes a plate by Marc Antonio Raimondi,1 Bonasone, Marco da Ravenna, Mantegna,1 Dürer, Lucas Van Leyden,' the Master I. B., the Monogrammist H. E. (a somewhat helpless but unusual and interesting bit of work), the monogrammist C. B. (coat of arms of Roggenburg), Claude, Castiglione, Morin, Goltzius, J. de Gheyn, Crispin de Passe, Suyderhoef, C. Visscher; two of Van Dyke's portraits, and the "Adam" and "Eve" (two plates) by Daniel Hopfer.

The plate by I. B. is the "Fate of the Evil Tongue" (Bartsch 30), and is accompanied by a contemporary copy in reverse. It served Willibald Pirckheimer as a book-plate, and this Library has hitherto possessed only a somewhat damaged impression pasted in a volume of Dante which came from the library of Pirckheimer.

So the Library is gradually adding to its collection of those old specimens of the reproductive graphic arts which are indispensable, in their basic importance, to any large print cabinet.

1 The print by this artist is reproduced in this number of the Bulletin.

NEWS OF THE MONTH

GIFTS

MONG the more important and interesting gifts received by the Library during the month of November may be mentioned the following: Maps of Canada and of the boundary between that country and the United States, to the number of 401, have been received from various departments of the Canadian Government, and from the International Boundary Commissions, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C., and the International Joint Commission, Ottawa, Canada. The Canadian maps were obtained largely through the assistance of the International Joint Commission.

Mr. Charles Howland Russell gave the Library a copy of "Serie di Ritratti dei Granduchi e Granduchesse di Toscana." This work contains a large collection of engraved portraits of members of the Medici family, and of their connections.

Mr. W. G. Bibb of New York presented a collection of photographs in 8 albums and 1 portfolio. The photographs for the most part represent scenes in various countries of Europe and Asia.

There are two versions of this subject. The present one (Bartsch 18) is distinguished from the other (Bartsch 20) by the presence of a little fir-tree in the upper right hand corner. Some critics have considered the one the original, some the other; the British Museum has reproduced Bartsch 18 as the original, and

Lippmann B. 20.

This print bears the date 1508, the earliest date found on a print by Lucas van Leyden. As he was born in 1494, this date, if correct, would show him to have been an artist

of a high degree of craftsmanship at the early age of 14.