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work which has reached a high order of merit in the United States, - has been made by the gift of a few specimens by the A.S. Seer Theatrical Printing Co. of New York, the Courier Lithographing Co., of Buffalo, N.Y., and Messrs. W.J. Morgan & Co., of Cleveland. O., and by the purchase of some of the tools used.  The following additions to the illustrations of the history of the reproductive arts have been made by purchase:  "Head of Christ", P 192, woodcut after Dürer;  "Portrait of Otto Heinrich von Schwarzenberg", woodcut, dated 1607, by Chr. van Sichem after Goltzius;  "Christ before Annas", B 12, engraving ^[[ on copper]]  by Israel van Meckenem;  "Portrait of Philip II", engraving on copper, dated 1586, by Hieronymus Wierix;  "Portrait of Jan Lutma, the Younger", by himself, dated 1681, executed on copper with punches ("opus malleé"), the first specimen of this kind of work acquired by the Museum, and a