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150 Years
of Print Collecting at the Smithsonian
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The Schoff Collection
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To Arms Citizens!
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King Lear
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Bank-note and portrait engraver Stephen Alonzo Schoff (1818-1904) studied in Paris
from 1839 to 1841 and may have purchased a number of his European prints while
abroad. An Associate of the National Academy of Design between 1845 and 1884, he
worked primarily in New England and New York and engraved plates after paintings
by his American contemporaries such as William Morris Hunt. His collection included
more than 600 European and American prints--for example, Turner landscapes and
Van Dyck portraits--along with his own work.
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