Photostatic prints from Trier Museum : photographs of Merovingian antiquities, with accompanying correspondence, 1936-1937.

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Photostatic prints from Trier Museum : photographs of Merovingian antiquities, with accompanying correspondence, 1936-1937.

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Collection comprises 42 photostatic prints acquired from the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier by Herbert Kühn of the Dept. of Medieval Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1936, as well as the correspondence, 1936-1937, relating to their acquisition and processing. The images represent objects of personal adornment recovered from Merovingian tombs in the Breisig region of Germany and originally in the possession of Friedrich Jakob Queckenberg. In 1910, J. Pierpont Morgan purchased 412 of the objects which were bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1917.

Photostatic copies 1 album (42 mounted photographs on 42 leaves of plates) : all ill. ; 31 cm.Correspondence 4 items.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library

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