Helena Wright: 1 book
The First Smithsonian Collection
The European Engravings of George Perkins Marsh and the Role of Prints in the U.S. National Museum
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015
Winner, Ewell Newman Award of the American Historical Print Collectors Society, 2016
In 1849 the Smithsonian purchased the Marsh Collection of European engravings. Not only the first collection of any kind to be acquired by the new Institution,...
