Paintings, sculpture, and classical antiquities are the most valuable resources of any museum, and are the first objects to be published in each museum's own collection catalogue or online inventory. Collection catalogues, however, have customarily included only a small sample of the riches to be found in Midwestern collections of master drawings. This volume covers the sixteenth century, including, as a rule, artists born between 1480 and 1580, with the exception of Giovanni Baglione and the Carracci. The study represents a gathering of drawings from forty institutions between Ohio and Oklahoma. Every drawing was examined for the following information: Artist, place of birth and death with dates, biography, title of drawing, date of drawing, dimensions, media, institutional credit line, accession number, technical condition, inscriptions, collectors' marks, watermark, provenance, exhibitions, bibliography, and comments.
