NPG PERMANENT COLLN
- ISBN-10
- 0874746744
- ISBN-13
- 9780874746747
- Category
- Government publications
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978-11-17
- Publisher
- Smithsonian
- Author
- National Portrait Gallery
Description
A fully illustrated listing of the permanent collection, this updated edition is an indispensable reference tool for historians and biographers, art historians, picture researchers, and anyone interested in learning what a particular eminent figure actually looked like. Distributed for the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
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