Other Graphic Arts Collections

The graphic arts department houses many additional collections such as furniture and games.

Collection description	Sample image	Scope
Artifacts		Includes 324 pieces of nineteenth-century Staffordshire pottery and a vial of tea collected after the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
Artist Collections		Collections, often formed from the personal archives of painters and printmakers, include drawings, watercolors, sketches, prints, proofs, and photographs by a range of American artists.
Drawings		Over 550 items in graphite, pen, ink and wash, chalk, watercolor and charcoal.
Furniture		Fine American and European antiques, including John Hancock's settee, tall clock, and the high chair used by descendants of Richard Mather.
Games		Over 300 items, particularly strong in holdings of games related to texts or produced by book publishers.
Matrices		Representative collection of printing matrices, including copper plates, woodblocks, and lithographic stones, dating from the late eighteenth century through the 1950s.
Portraits		Over 160 portrait paintings, miniatures, and sculptures.
Sheet Music		About 60,000 pieces of instrumental, vocal, secular, and religious music by both American and foreign composers that were printed through 1880.
Silhouettes		Over 200 silhouettes primarily dating from the first part of the nineteenth century.

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