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Annual report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · 1876 · [Boston, Museum of Fine Arts] · 5 pictures

This is an annual report issued by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1876, documenting the museum's collections and holdings for its public and trustees. The pictures are halftone reproductions of plates from the museum's print and sculpture sections, including Japanese prints, a Dutch-style engraving of a judgement hall, a Goya-like etching of a bullfight, and a Tang-period wooden Bodhisattva, showing how a nineteenth-century museum catalogued and illustrated its holdings across different media.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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