Charles Lang Freer’s Library

Seven people dressed in early 1900's japanese and western clothing

In 1906, industrialist Charles Lang Freer gave his collection of Asian and American art and related materials in a gift that began the Freer Gallery of Art. This gift included books which are now in the National Museum of Asian Art Library. Mr. Freer’s personal library enables scholars to better understand not only Mr. Freer himself but also the Gallery’s art collections and the context in which many of the objects were acquired. Mr. Freer’s own handwritten comments, notes, and marginalia in many of the items provide insights as to his personal interests as he was building his art collection.

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Cover of A special exhibition of ancient Chinese Buddhist paintings, lent by the Temple Daitokuji, of Kioto, Japan

A special exhibition of ancient Chinese Buddhist paintings, lent by the Temple Daitokuji, of Kioto, Japan

Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco,; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Department of Chinese and Japanese Art.; Daitokuji (Kyoto, Japan)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1894
Cover of A treatise on etching

A treatise on etching

Lalanne, Maxime,; Koehler, S. R.
Estes and Lauriat
1880
Cover of Abydos

Abydos

Petrie, W. M. Flinders; Ayrton, Edward Russell,; Currelly, C. T.; Weigall, Arthur E. P. Brome,
Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund
1902-04
Cover of Ajanta frescoes

Ajanta frescoes v.2 (1915)

Royal India, Pakistan, and Ceylon Society.; Herringham, Christiana Jane Powell, Lady,; Fox Strangways, A. H.,
H. Milford, Oxford University Press
1915
Cover of Alphabetical list of the Chinese and Japanese emperors

Alphabetical list of the Chinese and Japanese emperors

Ezerman, J. L. J. F.; Wettum, B. A. J. van.; Schlegel, Gustaaf,
E.J. Brill
1893

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