Campbell Dodgson

Campbell Dodgson CBE (1867–1948) was an art historian and museum curator. He was the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in 1912–1932.[1]

Biography

Campbell Dodgson was a distant cousin of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as author Lewis Carroll. The younger Dodgson was a scholar at Winchester and New College, Oxford University. He was an art historian specializing in works on paper, working as a librarian and curator of prints and drawings at the British Museum in 1893–1932 and rising to the position of Keeper of Prints and Drawings, where one of his predecessors had been Sidney Colvin.[1] He specialized in early modern Flemish and German prints, publishing extensively on the works of Albrecht Dürer, but applied his expertise to works of many other schools and periods as well.

He was the editor, in the 1920's, of The Print Collector’s Quarterly. He was also a contributor to the Burlington Magazine and to the Dictionary of National Biography.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c ""Dodgson, Campbell"". dictionaryofarthistorians.org. http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/dodgsonc.htm. Retrieved 2011-04-267. 

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