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Guide to the Leon Kolb collection of Portraits: engravings, etchings, mezzotinits, lithographs, and acquatints,
M0871
M0871
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Title: Leon Kolb, collector. Portraits: engravings, etchings, mezzotinits, lithographs, and acquatints
Identifier/Call Number: M0871
Contributing Institution:
Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
9.0 Linear feet
Date (inclusive): ca. 1600-1800
Abstract: The subjects include rulers, statesmen, authors, scholars and other famous personages from ancient times to the nineteenth
century. Most of the prints were produced in the 17th and 18th centuries from paintings by Has Holbein, Anthony Vandyke, Godfrey
Kneller, Peter Lely and other noted artists.
Item level description for items in Series 1 was taken from printed catalogue:
Portraits: a catalog of the engravings, etchings, mezzotints, and lithographs presented to the Stanford University Library
by Dr. and Mrs. Leon Kolb
. Compiled by
Lenkey, Susan V., [Stanford, Calif.] Stanford University, 1972.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Arranged by name of subject, each print in Series 1 is numbered for convenient reference in the various indices in the printed
catalogue by Susan Lenkey. Painters and engravers, printing techniques and social and historical positions of the subjects
are identified and indexed as well.The subjects include rulers, statesmen, authors, scholars and other famous personages from
ancient times to the nineteenth century. Most of the prints were produced in the 17th and 18th centuries from paintings by
Has Holbein, Anthony Vandyke, Godfrey Kneller, Peter Lely and other noted artists. Dr. Kolb, Clinical Associate Professor
Emeritus of Pharmacology in the Stanford School of Medicine, was a collector of books, pictures, and objects d'art.
Materials in Series 2 are not referenced in the printed catalogue by Lenkey, and are described to the folder-level.
Open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. Restrictions also
apply to digital representations of the original materials. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Leon Kolb, 1972. Accessions 1972-002 and 2010-110.
Dr. Kolb, Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology in the Stanford School of Medicine, was a collector of books,
prints, and objects d'art.