"Prints interest me because they circulate in society."
Curator Freyda Spira on Albrecht Dürer's print "Adam and Eve."
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"Prints interest me because they circulate in society."
Freyda Spira
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Freyda Spira
Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
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Albrecht Dürer
1504