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Brussels needlepoint and bobbin applique lace collar and Gros Point 

 de Venice lace cape were presented by Mrs. Herbert May. An addi- 

 tional group of seven beautiful oriental rugs was presented by Mrs. 

 Clara W. Berwick. These included examples of wool and silk rugs, 

 which are in both the Sehna and Ghiodes knot techniques. 



The division of ceramics and glass acquired, from Mrs. Ellouise 

 Baker Larsen, of Lima, Ohio, her entire collection of Staffordshire 

 ware. Consisting of about 900 pieces, this is the most important 

 assembly of these ceramics in America. Mrs. Larsen has spent more 

 than 30 years compiling data and gathering the representative pieces, 

 many of which are extremely rare. Hugh D. Auchincloss, McLean, 

 Va., donated five pieces of ancient glass illustrative of the high degree 

 of artistic skill of the glassmakers when Rome dominated the Mediter- 

 ranean. Dr. Hans Syz, Westport, Conn., presented another group 

 of 18th-century German porcelains including fine pieces from Meissen, 

 Hochet, Ludwigsburg, Nymphenburg, and Furstenberg. 



An important accession of the division of graphic arts was the 

 color aquatint La Promenade Puhlique, by Philibert-Louis Debucourt, 

 generally considered to be the finest example of French color print- 

 ing of the last quarter of the 18th century. Other outstanding acces- 

 sions were a chiaroscuro woodcut, The Death of Ananias, after 

 Raphael, executed about 1530, by Ugo de Carpi, who is usually ac- 

 cepted as the first and most important Italian chiaroscuro woodcutter ; 

 and The Fountain of Trevi, one of the most desirable subjects from 

 Giovamii Battista Piranesi's great series of etchings, Veduta di Roma., 

 published in 1765. 



The eminent Hungarian artist Joseph Domjan, now an American 

 citizen, donated his highly original vroodcuts Starlit Night, Peacock of 

 the Carnations, and Moon-Shine Peacoch. Through its president, 

 Prentiss Taylor, the Society of Washington Printmakers presented 

 the color lithograph Black Fire, by Jack Perlmutter. Mr. Taylor, a 

 well-known Washington artist, also donated a print of his lithograph 

 La Presa-Marfil, together with the original preliminary drawing of 

 the subject, the transfer drawings, and the zinc plate used in printing. 



The section of photography acquired some notable additions to its 

 historical collections as well as items representative of significant cur- 

 rent developments. Tlie Eastman Kodak Co. presented a matchbox 

 camera developed during World War TI for the Office of Strategic 

 Services, a 1922 cine-camera, Model-A, their first motion picture 

 camera, and several cutaway cameras illustrative of design changes. 

 Dr. Harold E. Edgerton donated a pair of deep-sea stereo cameras 

 of his design. These were first used in 1954 by Capt. Jacques Yves 

 Cousteau and by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Listitution. 



