Print Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne

The Print Collection at the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, comprises some 7,000 individual prints and volumes from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. It is based on a gift to the Baillieu Library in the 1950s by Dr John Orde Poynton of some 3,000 prints. This has since been augmented by many other gifts and purchases.

Baillieu Prints - 1959
Baillieu Prints - 1959

 

Address: 
Cultural Collections Reading Room, 3rd floor, Baillieu Library, Professors' Walk, University of Melbourne VIC 3010, Australia
Tel: 
+61 03 8344 8040
Hours: 
By appointment only
Admission: 
General admission free
Facilities: 
Items from the collection can be viewed by prior arrangement, for research purposes. For further information contact Special Collections staff at the Baillieu Library on (03) 8344 6636.
Collection: 

The collection covers many printmaking techniques including woodcuts, wood engravings, engravings, etchings, mezzotints, aquatints, lithographs and chromolithographs.

Artists represented include Durer, Aldegrever, Rembrandt, the Sadeler family, Claude Lorraine, Hogarth, Goya and Lionel Lindsay.