PROPERTY FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DAVID SCRASE, PART I (LOTS 135-144)

A quantity of art books, to include:

Paintings in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts

M. Warner, Monuments and Maidens

Australian National Gallery: An Introduction

Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750

North Italian Painting of the Quattrocento

Settecento Pisano

Discovering the Italian Baroque. The Denis Mahon Collection

Treasures from the Fitzwilliam

Matthiesen, From Borso to Cesare d’Este 1450-1628

Accademia Galleries of Venice

Renowned scholar and curator, David Scrase was Honorary Keeper of Italian Drawings, Honorary Marlay Group member, former Assistant Keeper, then Keeper, of Paintings, Drawings and Prints and Assistant Director (Collections) of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. An internationally acclaimed authority on Italian art, particularly drawings, Scrase published extensively and on a variety of subjects. His generosity was well known through the numerous thoughtful donations to the Fitzwilliam and other museums he made throughout his lifetime.