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Its permanent collection features more than 800 works of art, primarily by artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and mixed media.
The largest public collection of her letters and drawings is the Leslie Linder Bequest and Leslie Linder Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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.
The bequest of a collection of books, engraved gems, coins, prints and drawings by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode in 1800 did much to raise the Museum's reputation ; but Montagu House became increasingly crowded and decrepit and it was apparent that it would be unable to cope with further expansion.
It was one of two antiquities of Hamilton's collection drawn for him by Francesco Progenie, a pupil of Pietro Fabris, who also contributed a number of drawings of Mount Vesuvius sent by Hamilton to the Royal Society in London.
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.
In 2012, she debuted an art exhibit featuring a collection of her own paintings and drawings titled " And She's Not Even Pretty ".
The 1, 500-page, three-volume work is the most comprehensive collection of Pissarro paintings to date, and contains accompanying images of drawings and studies, as well as photographs of Pissarro and his family that have not previously been published.
The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).
The museum hosts a collection of approximately 1, 100 paintings, 4, 500 drawings, and 18, 000 prints, the broadest collection of his works in the world.
The practice in the time of Gamaliel II ( c. 100 CE ) was for witnesses to select the appearance of the moon from a collection of drawings that depicted the crescent in a variety of orientations, only a few of which could be valid in any given month.
Hudson had a collection of old master drawings, including some by Guercino, of which Reynolds made copies.
A collection at the British Museum in London contains seventy-four drawings of Indian portraits dating from the time of Jahangir, including a portrait of the emperor himself.
After his return to Kentucky, he found that rats had eaten his entire collection of more than 200 drawings.
Museum expansion slowed after World War I, and the collection did not acquire many significant new works ; exceptions were Georges de La Tour's Saint Thomas and Baron Edmond de Rothschild's ( 1845 – 1934 ) 1935 donation of 4, 000 engravings, 3, 000 drawings, and 500 illustrated books.
The collection is organized into three sections: the core Cabinet du Roi, 14, 000 royal copper printing-plates, and the donations of Edmond de Rothschild, which include 40, 000 prints, 3, 000 drawings, and 5, 000 illustrated books.
Other archives are held at the University of Illinois at Chicago ( personal book collection ), the Canadian Center for Architecture ( drawings and photos ) in Montreal, the Newberry Library in Chicago ( personal correspondence ), the Library of Congress in Washington D. C.
A collection of his drawings are still in the possession of his family.
He is certainly known to have had a large collection of photographs and drawings of young girls, and those who knew him well ( such as the daughter of his publisher ) wrote of his adoration of young girls.
The library contains more than 750, 000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175, 000 prints and drawings of plants.
Hell at home in the East Village, Manhattan | East Village, 2008In 1996 Hell wrote a novel, Go Now, that was drawn largely from his own experience, and released a collection of short pieces ( poems, essays and drawings ) called Hot and Cold in 2001.
The museum's collection is the world's largest, including more than 700 original Rockwell paintings, drawings, and studies.

collection and covers
covers statistical study, descriptive statistics ( collection, description, analysis, and summary of data ), probability, and the binomial and normal distributions, test of hypotheses and confidence intervals, linear regression, and correlation.
The collection of prints covers the tradition of fine printmaking from its beginnings in the 15th century up to the present, with near complete holdings of most of the great names before the 19th century.
Specifically, a topological space is compact if, whenever a collection of open sets covers the space, some subcollection consisting only of finitely many open sets also covers the space.
The following year, Treasures, an album of covers of 1960s and ' 70s hits was released, and featured a diverse collection of material, including songs by Mac Davis, Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell.
Pin Ups, a collection of covers of his 1960s favourites, followed in October, producing a UK number three hit in " Sorrow " and itself peaking at number one, making David Bowie the best-selling act of 1973 in the UK.
The book covers that Orton and Halliwell vandalised have since become a valued part of the Islington Local History Centre collection.
The collection of book covers can be viewed here:
A book is a collection of sheets of paper, parchment or other material with a piece of text written on them, bound together along one edge within covers.
* Topical stamp collecting – many collectors choose to organize their philatelic collection on the theme of the stamps, covers, or postmarks.
His collection was passed on to Queen Elizabeth II who, while not a serious philatelist, has a collection of British and Commonwealth first day covers which she started in 1952.
As of 2010, after 10 years of data collection, SETI @ home has listened to that one frequency at every point of over 67 percent of the sky observable from Arecibo with a least 3 scans ( out of the goal of 9 scans ), which covers about 20 percent of the full celestial sphere.
He also contributed a cover of Skip Spence's " Books of Moses " to More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album, a collection of covers of the singer's songs on Birdman Records.
Ono released the album Yes, I'm a Witch in 2007, a collection of remixes and covers from her back catalog by various artists including The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Antony, DJ Spooky, Porcupine Tree and Peaches, released in February 2007, along with a special edition of Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band.
Each year since 1999, except in 2008, Ebert has published Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook, a collection of all of his movie reviews from the previous two and a half years ( for example, the 2011 edition, ISBN 978-0-7407-9769-9, covers January 2008 – July 2010 ), as well as essays and other writings.
The Museum of Grenoble is above all renowned for its collection of paintings that covers all the artistic evolutions, but it also presents Egyptian antiquities as well as Greek and Roman artifacts.
The collection that the museum provides covers the era of 400-1870 AD.
Mignola also did the jacket covers and interior art for the White Wolf collection.
He also released Acoustic Cafe, an album, that with the exception of " You Have My Heart ," is a collection of covers ranging from Bob Dylan (" If Not For You ," " Make You Feel My Love ") to Cyndi Lauper (" Time After Time ").
The glass collection covers 4000 years of glass making, and has over 6000 items from Africa, Britain, Europe, America and Asia.
The furniture and furnishings collection covers Britain, Europe and America from the Middle Ages to the present.
This collection of over 45, 000 items covers decorative ironwork, both wrought and cast, bronze, silverware, arms and armour, pewter, brassware and enamels ( including many examples from Limoges ).
Parks has produced, arranged, or played on albums by artists including Tim Buckley, Phil Ochs, Delaney Bramlett, Vic Chesnutt, U2, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, The Byrds, Cher, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Phillips, Ringo Starr, Frank Black, The Beau Brummels, The Manhattan Transfer, Medicine, Keith Moon, Sixpence None the Richer, Carly Simon, Little Feat, T-Bone Burnett, Stan Ridgway, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Victoria Williams, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Case, Gordon Lightfoot, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow, Ry Cooder, Joanna Newsom, The Everly Brothers, Saint Etienne, Silverchair, The Thrills, Scissor Sisters, Laurie Anderson, and Susanna Hoffs / Matthew Sweet's covers collection.

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