The print-work of Albrecht Durer, represented by some 300 engravings and woodcuts acquired by the Felton Bequest for the National Gallery of Victoria from Sir Thomas O. Barlow, of Manchester, is a collection of outstanding importance.

This collection, fanned by Sir Thomas over a period of fifty years, is one of the great Durer collections of the world. It is notable for the extremely high quality of impressions, many of which have, besides, pedigrees going back to the eighteenth century and earlier. Sir Thomas also contributed to Durer scholarship in his publications: Woodcuts and Engravings by Albert Durer, Cambridge University Press, 1926, and The Medieval World Picture and Albert Durer’s Melancholia, Cambridge, Roxburghe Club, 1950.