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Museums with major collections of European prints and drawings |
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- British Museum, London, UK
- 50,000 drawings, 2 million prints [1]
- Musée du Louvre ¹, Paris, France
- 140,500 drawings, 43,000 prints [1] [2]
- State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 39,000 drawings, 486,000 prints [3]
- Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
- 110,000 drawings, 500,000 prints [4]
- Albertina ², Vienna, Austria
- 50,000 drawings, 1 million prints [5]
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- Royal Collection ³, London, UK
- 40,000 drawings, 150,000 prints [6]
- Uffizi, Florence, Italy
- 120,000 drawings and prints [7]
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art *, New York, USA
- 4,000 drawings, 1.5 million prints [8]
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
- 20,000 drawings, 180,000 prints [9]
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- 6,000 drawings, 50,000 prints [10]
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- Victoria & Albert Museum **, London, UK
- 2,000 drawings, 500,000 prints [11]
- Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
- 2,000 drawings, 40,000 prints [12]
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- 11,500 drawings, 60,000 prints [13]
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
- 150,000 drawings and prints [14]
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Please Note: ¹ Musée du Louvre: 2005 Annual Report - Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, pg 185 - ² Albertina: Excludes 25,000 architectural drawings - ³ Royal Collection: Including 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci - * Metropolitan Museum of Art: Includes more than 4,000 Old Master drawings and excludes over 10,000 architectural drawings [15] - ** V&A: Excludes 600,000 architectural drawings, 100,000 design drawings and 10,000 british drawings [16](V&A Collecting Plan Including Acquisition & Disposal Policy, August 2004)
n.b. it should be noted that this list is controversial, in so far as it contains only qualitative analysis of museum holdings. These may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of collections in question.
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