" Many scholars argue that this collection originally consisted of three independent and anonymous prophecies, two of which were subsequently appended to the book of Zechariah ( as what scholars refer to as Deutero-Zechariah ) with the third becoming the book of Malachi.

At that time, Sloane's collection consisted of around 71, 000 objects of all kinds including some 40, 000 printed books, 7, 000 manuscripts, extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants, prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas.

By 1866 the collection consisted of some 10, 000 objects.

These everyday objects later became the basis of his large ethnographic collection, which consisted of everyday household goods, woodblock prints, tools and hand-crafted objects used by the Japanese people.

It then consisted of a motley collection of ships and boats acquired from the Kuomintang forces.

At this stage the Army consisted of approximately seven Fallschirmjaeger regiments composed of some 20, 000 airborne troops along with a collection of anti-aircraft batteries and a mix of 25 self-propelled guns and tank destroyers.

Arco's collection was quite eclectic, and consisted of an extremely wide range of media & styles ; ranging from large resin sculptures by Dewain Valentine to original signed photographs by Ansel Adams.

The vast majority of the collection consisted of original " signed " prints & " artist's proofs " of hand-pulled prints.

A majority of Adeline ’ s collection consisted of ningyo, and only a few prints.

At the time of its launch, the ZX range consisted of a collection of four very individual trim levels ; the base model was the " Reflex " aimed at young people, next was the " Avantage " aimed at families and then there was the luxury " Aura " series.

Its first museum collection mostly consisted of archaeological and ethnographic items from Native groups in Canada.

Written by Abraham Ortelius and originally printed on May 20, 1570, in Antwerp, it consisted of a collection of uniform map sheets and sustaining text bound to form a book for which copper printing plates were specifically engraved.

At first the museum consisted of just five cars and a small collection of automobilia displayed in the front hall of Lord Montagu's ancestral home, Palace House, but such was the popularity of this small display that the collection soon outgrew its home and was transferred to wooden sheds in the grounds of the house.

The Zoo's original animal collection consisted of eight monkeys, two Grizzly Bears, three White-tailed Deer, six raccoons, two elk, an American Bison, a Spotted Hyena, an American Alligator, a circus elephant, a tiger and over four hundred birds, which included a crow.

His collection consisted of 160 16 mm prints and more than 1, 000 video cassettes, at a time before the era of commercial videotapes, when there was no legal aftermarket for films ( copying or selling prints obtained from studios without owning the copyright was illegal ).

In 1861 the Hermitage purchased from the Papal government part of the Giampietro Campana collection, which consisted mostly classical antiquities.

Ground collection of oil consisted of gathering it from where it occurred naturally, such as from oil seeps or shallow holes dug into the ground.

The first order of new books was on 27 June 1729 and consisted of " a collection of Lord Bacon's works ".

Issues # 19 through 21 serialized the graphic novel David Boring, while issues # 22 and 23 each consisted of a collection of short, fragmentary stories in diverse styles and formats that meshed into a unified narrative (" Ice Haven " and " The Death Ray ", respectively ).

Though the name " The Last Heard " originally referred to the collection of Omens and Town Criers who recorded " East Side Story " with Seger, it soon became the name of Seger's permanent band, which consisted of former Town Crier Pep Perrine on drums, Carl Lagassa on guitar, and Dan Honaker on bass.

His collection mainly consisted of small sculptures and other artifacts from India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Central Asia.

The Hume collection of birds as it went to the British museum in 1884 consisted of 82, 000 specimens of which 75, 577 were finally placed in the Museum.

At that time, students had the option of doing a Pass degree, which consisted of ' a disorderly collection of fragmented learning ', or an Honours degree, which at that time meant the Mathematics Tripos, classics, natural or moral sciences.

There are groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, ( including his only surviving full-scale cartoon ), Dürer ( a collection of 138 drawings is one of the finest in existence ), Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Claude and Watteau, and largely complete collections of the works of all the great printmakers including Dürer ( 99 engravings, 6 etchings and most of his 346 woodcuts ), Rembrandt and Goya.

The collection dates back to the days of Gustav Vasa in the 16th century, and has since been expanded with works by artists such as Rembrandt, and Antoine Watteau, as well as constituting a main part of Sweden's art heritage, manifested in the works of Alexander Roslin, Anders Zorn, Johan Tobias Sergel, Carl Larsson, Carl Fredrik Hill and Ernst Josephson.

Previously the residence of count John Maurice of Nassau, it now has a large art collection, including paintings by Dutch painters such as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and Frans Hals and works of the German painter Hans Holbein the Younger.

The current collection consists of almost 800 paintings and focusses on Dutch and Flemish artists, such as Pieter Brueghel, Paulus Potter, Pieter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael, Johannes Vermeer, and Rogier van der Weyden.

The collection includes works from 19th, 20th, and 21st century American and European artists, including George Caleb Bingham, Thomas Cole, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Rembrandt, Robert Rauschenberg, Barbara Kruger, and Christian Boltanski.

The international collection includes works by Bernini, Bordone, Canaletto, Cézanne, Constable, Correggio, van Dyck, Gainsborough, El Greco, Manet, Modigliani, Monet, Memling, Poussin, Rembrandt, Ribera, Rodin, Rothko, Rubens, Picasso, Pissarro, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Turner, Uccello, Veronese, and other masters.

The collection of drawings includes over 10, 000 British and 2, 000 old master works, including works by: Dürer, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Bernardo Buontalenti, Rembrandt, Antonio Verrio, Paul Sandby, John Russell, Angelica Kauffman, John Flaxman, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Kilburn, Thomas Girtin, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, David Wilkie, John Martin, Samuel Palmer, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Lord Frederic Leighton, Sir Samuel Luke Fildes and Aubrey Beardsley.

The print collection has over 500, 000 items, covering: posters, greetings cards, book plates, as well as prints from the renaissance to the present, including works by Rembrandt, William Hogarth, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Canaletto, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Henri Matisse and Sir William Nicholson.

The Red Velvet Room once contained the largest and most expensive paintings in Lord Burlington's collection, including paintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ), Giacomo Cavedone ( 1577 – 1660 ), Peter Paul Rubens ( 1573 – 1640 ), Rembrandt van Ryn ( 1606 – 69 ), Salvator Rosa ( 1615 – 1673 ), Pier Francesco Mola ( 1612 – 1666 ), Jacopo Ligozzi ( c. 1547 – 1632 ), Jean Lemaire ( 1598 – 1659 ), Francisque Millet ( 1642 – 79 ) and Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ).

Showing at the National Gallery in London in 1994 he made direct reference to the gallery's collection of paintings by Rembrandt, Titian and Rubens.

The Loeb's works on paper represent a major collection in the United States, with prints by Rembrandt ( including important impressions of the " Hundred Guilder Print " and the " Three Trees ") and Dürer as well as photographs by Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, and others.

The New York collection included original paintings by Rembrandt and Anthony van Dyck.

The collection consists in approximatively 2, 000 paintings ( including pictures by Nicolas Poussin, Anthony Van Dyck, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert and Ingres ), 600 pieces of decorative arts, 600 architectural elements, nearly 15, 000 medals, 3, 700 sculptures, 20, 000 drawings including works by Paolo Veronese, Primaticcio, Jacques Bellange, Michelangelo, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Dürer, Rembrandt, Ingres, François Boucher or Pierre Alechinsky, 45, 000 architectural drawings, 100, 000 etchings and engravings, 70, 000 photographs ( mainly form the period 1850-1914 ), 65, 000 books dating from the 15th to the 20th century ( 3, 500 for the 15th and 16th centuries ), and 1, 000 handwritten pieces of archive ( letters, inventories, notes ...) and also 390 important fragments or complete illuminated manuscripts.

Highlights of the collection include many paintings by Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Well-known artworks in the museum ’ s collection include Titian ’ s The Rape of Europa, John Singer Sargent ’ s El Jaleo and Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fra Angelico ’ s Death and Assumption of the Virgin, Rembrandt ’ s Self-Portrait, Aged 23, Cellini ’ s Bindo Altoviti, and Piero della Francesca ’ s Hercules.

The works-on-paper collection includes major works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Francisco Goya.

The castle is home to part of the Buccleuch art collection which includes Rembrandt ’ s ' An Old Woman Reading ', and Leonardo Da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder which was stolen in 2003 and returned in 2007 after being found in Glasgow and many other paintings, tapestries and objects of art.

The Walker Art Gallery houses a collection including Italian and Netherlandish paintings from 1300 – 1550, European art from 1550 – 1900, including works by Rembrandt, Poussin and Degas, 18th and 19th-century British art, including a major collection of Victorian painting and many Pre-Raphaelite works, a wide collection of prints, drawings and watercolours, 20th-century works by artists such as Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Gilbert and George and a major sculpture collection.

At the eastern edge of the neighborhood is the Corcoran Gallery of Art, whose permanent collection contains works from Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix, Edgar Degas, Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Gene Davis, among others.

Among them are a world-class collection of Hudson River School paintings, including major works by Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church ; iconic genre and history paintings including works by William Sidney Mount and Eastman Johnson ; a vast range of American portraits, including paintings by Rembrandt Peale and Gilbert Stuart ; all 435 of John James Audubon ’ s extant preparatory watercolors for Birds of America ; and an encyclopedic collection of more than 800 works documenting the full range of representational sculpture in America from the colonial period to the present day.