The current exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room of Widener Library includes an interesting collection of books and pamphlets illustrated in color by Rowlandson, Leech, Heath, Cruikshank, and others.
The Widener collection of illustrated books of this sort, especially of the work of Cruikshank, is one of the most complete and most valuable in the world. Some of the best items of this collection are now on view in the Widener Memorial Room.
The continuing collection in the Treasure Room includes the collection of modern French illustrated books, exhibiting unusual examples of the book-illustrating art on the Continent. Sketches of different University buildings by former Harvard students are also being shown.
At the Fogg, the exhibition of Maya Art, loaned by the Peabody Museum, Mrs. Arthur T. Cabot's exhibition of French silver winetasters' cups, and The Denman W. Ross '75 collection of Chinese and Japanese portraits are still on view.
A new collection of engravings and etchings by Edwin Alfred Seasongood '98 is scheduled to open on Monday.
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