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Salomon Kleiner, Das prächtige Rath Hauss der
Stadt Augspurg, Grega and Leo A. Daly III Fund for
Architectural Books
Holdings for the study of European art were enriched
thanks to the J. Paul Getty Fund in honor of Franklin D.
Murphy. Among the eight titles acquired is a first edition
of Tabulae anatomicae a celeberrimo pictore Petro Berrettino
Cortonesi (Rome, 1741), featuring an engraved title plate
and twenty-seven full-page engravings of anatomical
plates based on drawings by Pietro da Cortona.
The Grega and Leo A. Daly III Fund for Architectural
Books supported the purchase of four titles including
two eighteenth-century works bound as one, sumptuously
illustrated by more than twenty engravings after
drawings by Salomon Kleiner. Das prächtige Rath Hauss
der Stadt Augspurg (Augsburg, 1732) portrays in meticulous
detail the exterior and interior spaces of Augsburg’s
seventeenth-century town hall. Representation exacte du
Chateau de Chasse de S.A. Sme. Monseigneur, l’Eveque de
Bamberg, nomé Marquardsbourg ou Seehof, accompagné de
son beau jardin, en six differentes vuës et plans (Augsburg,
1731) presents the only known detailed views of the palace
and gardens, which epitomize patron Lothar Franz
von Schönborn’s taste for the French Rococo style.
The Library’s image collections were enriched with
many notable additions. Among the albums are a folio
of carbon prints by Adolphe Braun & Cie of French
portraiture assembled for the 1878 Exposition Universelle;
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views of Venice by Carlo Naya, 1875; the interior of Ripon
Cathedral, 1896; the Cloisters of the cathedral at Monreale
by Joseph Cundall, 1870; and Karel Sourek’s survey of
Gothic sculpture in St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, 1944.
Among the individual photographs are stereo
daguerreotypes of the Crystal Palace Exposition, 1851,
and a sculpture hall at the Exposition Universelle in
Paris, 1855; a set of forty stereograph cards of the 1862
International Exposition in London; a group of photographs
by Robert Bracklow of buildings in New York
City, 1887–1892; views of Indian architecture by Samuel
Bourne, c. 1870; a pair of albumen prints of Union
College, Schenectady, c. 1868; and a group of photographs
documenting Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial
Hotel in Tokyo, c. 1965.
The artists’ portraits collection was enhanced with
a self-portrait by Jessie Tarbox Beals at the St. Louis
World’s Fair, 1904; Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with
her model of the Christopher Columbus Monument
for Huelva, Spain, c. 1920, by Bert Underwood; Dan
Budnik’s portrait of Willem de Kooning, 1967; and Ernst
Hass’ photograph of Lee Krasner, c. 1975. The department
continues to document world expositions with the
acquisition of albums capturing views of London, 1862;
Lille, 1876; Antwerp, 1885; Paris, 1889; Lyon, 1894; and
Amsterdam, 1895.