Hirschland Collection of Graphic Art

FINE PRINTS given recently to Dartmouth by Dr. F. H. Hirschland, well-known New York corporation official, art collector and connoisseur, aggregate more than 130 pieces representing all the printmaking mediums and periods. In announcing the gift President Dickey commented, "Through the generosity of Dr. Hirschland and the loyal interest of his Dartmouth sons Richard S. Hirschland '35 and Herbert E. Hirschland '39 the art resources of the College are being materially strengthened and our graphic arts instruction substantially encouraged."

The Hirschland collection, spanning the printmaking activities of five hundred years, is based on a group of examples from fifteenth century printed books illustrated with woodcuts. Developments toward the end of that century and the early sixteenth are well exemplified in the work of Diirer, Lucas van Leyden and Altdorfer, both in copperplate engravings and designs cut on wood. From the beginnings of etching there are several pieces by Callot, followed by a roster fairly representative of periods and style down to Stauffer-Bern-Tiepolo figures, Brouwer genre, Ruysdael landscape and Potter's bull, Waterloo, Canaletto, Claude and the rest in engraving and mezzotint, etching and aquatint, wood-engraving, chiaroscuro and plain woodcut, and finally lithography.

Of particular interest and importance for understanding the modern background are the newly acquired prints by such influential masters as Goya, Blake and Daumier, with examples also by Millet, Lepfere, Legros and Whistler, to name only a few.

With the separate prints Dr. Hirschland presented a copy of the famous Burgmairillustrated Weisskunig and the etchings of Rembrandt in facsimile.

THIS EARLY WOODCUT in the Hirschland graphic art coiiection is from the noted "Geistiiche Auslegung des Lebens Jesu Christi", possibly by Martin Shongauer, printed at Ulm by Zainer about 1485.