THE
BURLINGTON MAGAZINE
Volume lxxxviiiDecember 1946
No. 525
CONTENTS
Editorial: The Year’s Art and other Subjects......................................................................... 289 La Vierge a la Soupe au Lait by Gerard David. By R. Langton Douglas.............................. 289 A Collection of English Alabasters. By Terence Hodgkinson.... 292 An Exhibition of English Prints and Drawings at Chicago. By Ulrich Middeldorf 296 The Portraiture of Isabella Stuart, Duchess of Brittany (c. 1427-after 1494). By
Margaret R. Toynbee................................................................................................. 300 Shorter Notices: An Exhibition of Sienese Stained Glass (John Pope-Hennessy);
Peter de Wint at the Usher Art Gallery, Lincoln; Alexander Cozens at Sheffield (Iolo A. Williams); Select Acquisitions of the Contemporary Art Society: An Exhibition at the Tate Gallery (Douglas Cooper); Old
Masters in Bond Street (Benedict Nicolson).............................................................. 306
Obituary: Lord Howard de Walden (Geoffrey Whitworth)..................................................... 313 National Gallery Acquisitions since 1937............................................................................... 314 Letters: Raphael’s Drawings (Frederick Hartt; A. E. Popham).............................................. 315 The Literature of Art................................................................................................................ 316 Forthcoming Sales................................................................................................................... 318
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