Netherlandish, Dutch, Flemish and German Prints
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 850 Netherlandish, Dutch, Flemish and German prints which broadly date from between 1460 and 1960. This collection includes intaglio etchings and engravings on paper as well as relief woodcuts and mass-produced lithographs and photogravures. Dutch prints include 340 prints from the 17th and 18th centuries and 120 prints from the 19th and 20th centuries. Early German prints number around 130 with later 17th, 19th and 20th century German works numbering around 150. There are approximately 100 Flemish prints from the 17th and 18th centuries and a further 10 prints defined as Netherlandish. This collection, while not necessarily comprehensive or representative of the wider historical output, does represent some of the greatest masters of the time with numerous works. There are large groups of prints by, or after, Dürer, Rembrandt, Adriaen van Ostade, Johan Georg Wille, Marius Bauer and Van Dyck. Many of the finest examples came in a single bequest in 1920 from John Innes. After 1581 the Netherlands was divided between the Dutch north, known as the Dutch Republic, and the Flemish south, at that time known as the Spanish Netherlands and, after 1830, as Belgium. Various parts of these territories were absorbed by Germany when it became a unified nation state in 1871.
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