Many of the approximately 300 prints from the 19th century (excluding the prints by Honoré Daumier in the Helen Wurdemann Collection ) document the 19th-century European predilection for etching, including series by Whistler and Turner and a large number of natural history plates by John Gould. Max Klinger's set of prints, Intermezzi, represents an imaginative high point in the collection of 19th-century etchings. The 19th century also saw the invention of lithography and its development into an important graphic medium, eclipsing the other processes in the production of popular imagery. The history of this medium in Europe is represented by examples of early lithographs by Ingres and Gericault, a fine impression of Bresdin's monumental Good Samaritan, and a number of posters by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The precursors of modernism are represented by prints by Gauguin and Munch.

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