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• Collection: Guide Records

• Title: Marsh Collection of Fine Prints (Library of Congress)
• Other Title: George Perkins Marsh Collection (Library of Congress)
• Related Names:
     Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882 , collector
• Date Created/Published: ca. 1500-ca. 1800.
• Medium: ca. 300 prints : primarily engravings and etchings.
• Summary: The collection includes prints by such master European printmakers as Albrecht Dürer, Gérard Edelinck, Marcantonio Raimondi, and Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich.
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Prints are arranged chronologically by century and then alphabetically by artist as part of the Fine Print (FP) filing series.
  • Collection title devised by Library staff.
  • Digitized images for items in this collection and their associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.finepr
  • From Smithsonian Institution; 1866.
  • The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History has identified more than 400 prints in its Marsh Collection, http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/marsh-collection?ogmt_page=marsh-introduction
  • George Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) was a gifted linguist, conservationist, politician, and diplomat. Pursuing a love of art, he purchased more than one thousand European prints, primarily in the 1830s and 1840s. As a Whig Congressman from Vermont (1843-1849), Marsh helped draft the legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution and also served on the Joint Committee for the Library of Congress. He believed in the educational value of beauty and of libraries to further social progress. In 1849, Marsh sold his prints and selected books to the Smithsonian Institution, where they became part of the library. In 1866, after a fire, the Smithsonian deposited many of its prints and books at the Library of Congress, including many Marsh Collection items. In 1888, the Library returned to the Smithsonian an album of early German engravings, two volumes of Houghton Gallery prints, and three Dürer woodcuts, among other items. In 1958, the Smithsonian decided to leave the remaining deposited items at the Library of Congress. (Source: First Smithsonian Collection, 2015)
  • Fine print card catalog entries have the note "Marsh Collection." There is no separate listing of Marsh Collection prints.
  • Published in: The First Smithsonian Collection: The European Engravings of George Perkins Marsh and the Role of Prints in the U.S. National Museum / Helena E. Wright. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2015.
• Subjects:
  • Christianity--Europe--1500-1800.
  • History--Europe--1500-1800.
• Format:
  • Engravings--1500-1800.
  • Etchings--1500-1800.
  • Portrait prints--1500-1800.
• Collections:
  • Guide Records
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
• Medium: ca. 300 prints : primarily engravings and etchings.

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• Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
• Medium: ca. 300 prints : primarily engravings and etchings.

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