An extra-illustrated set of The Dictionary of National Biography

Grant Value: 100
Item cost pre-decimal: 2,310
Item date acquired: 1966
Item institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London

The accumulation of a lifetimes fanatical collecting. Estimated as possibly 750,000 portrait engravings, particularly strong in 18th and 19th century work; the periods in which the NPG was until this acquisition, particularly weak

Item Provenance
Collection of JH MacDonnell, Sothebys sale April 26th 1966, Lot 353