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Caproni Casts: Plaster Reproductions of Sculpture for Drawing and Modeling Classes

This catalog was for ordering plaster reproductions of famous classical sculpture. I never knew the story of it until now.
Apparently Caproni went round the world to make casts from the original sculptures. This made hiss studio in Boston and very important museum in its own right.
I was looking around on the net to see if this studio still existed but, alas, no. But this company has some of the original casts and they can still be bought.

• http://www.giustgallery.com/
  And what's cool is they have scanned in some of the old catalogs and made them available online.
• http://www.giustgallery.com/caproni_catalog.htm
  It seems the one I have is from 1923.
  I would love to order one of the reproductions... to have a real object to draw from after all those times drawing from the dot-screened catalog.