EXHIBITION OF SELECT PRINTS. 



This Exhibition aims at always presenting a few specimens illus- 

 trating each of the chief processes and schools of engraving. The 

 specimens, selected from the finest impressions in the Department, 

 will be changed periodically, so that students who pay occasional 

 visits to the Exhibition gallery may have a better opportunity of 

 getting to know the variety of the Museum collection without 

 special requisition for prints in the Students' Room. The Guide 

 offers a description of the various processes of engraving, and a 

 short survey of the different schools, with notes on some of the 

 most important engraA^ers, who will be most generally represented 

 in the Exhibition. The short survey of individual engravers may 

 also afford some direction to less experienced students as to what to 

 requisition in the Print Room from the portfolios in the Department. 

 Living artists are not mentioned in this Guide, but examples of their 

 work may be shown from time to time in the Exhibition. 



The labels attached to the prints will give details supplementary 

 to the Guide. The classification is according to processes under the 

 following letters : — 



A. Woodcut and wood-engraving, and relief prints from 



metal plates. 



B. Line-engravint;. 



C. Dry-point. 



D. Etching. 



E. Mezzotint. 



F. Stipple, crayon, and the dot-processes. 



G. Aquatint. 



H. Lithography, and surface prints from metal plates. 



J. Miscellaneous processes (such as monotypes and glass 

 prints) which cannot be classed under any of the 

 above headings. 



