Arthur Mayger Hind (1880–1957) was a British art historian and curator, who usually published as Arthur M. Hind or A. M. Hind. He specialized in

old master print An old master print (also spaced masterprint) is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (mostly by Old Masters). The term remains current in the art trade, and there is no easy alternative in English to distingu ...

s, and was Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the

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until he retired in 1945. Many prints continue to be referred to by the numbers from his catalogue of Italian

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s in the British Museum, a work begun in 1910 and published in expanded form in four volumes in 1948, with another three in 1948. His classic introductory books ''A hortHistory of Engraving and Etching'' (1908) and ''An Introduction to a History of Woodcut'' (1935) continued to be reprinted for decades by Dover Publications. The former was described by a later curator as "perhaps the most influential general guide ever written to the history of

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".Carey, 236 With Campbell Dodgson, his predecessor as Keeper, he participated in the "heated atmosphere of rumour and anticipation" (as Dodgson put it in 1927) around the major sales of first half of the century, many dispersing German aristocratic collections, with Berlin, Munich and Americans the main competitors.Carey, 237

Biography

Born in

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, Hind attended

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and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He graduated from university with honours in 1902. Hind came to specialise in prints and drawings and studied the history of engraving in

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under Max Lehrs for a year before joining the British Museum in 1904. His particular interest lay in Italian prints and drawings. Between 1933 and 1945 he was Keeper of the Department of Prints,

. He died in Henley-on-Thames in 1957.

References

* Frances Carey in *Antony Griffiths (ed), ''Landmarks in Print Collecting – Connoisseurs and Donors at the British Museum since 1753'', 1996, British Museum Press,

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hind, Arthur Mayger 1880 births 1957 deaths Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge 20th-century British historians British art historians Rembrandt scholars People from Burton upon Trent