Annual report of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
An annual report issued by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1876, published by the museum itself and aimed at its trustees, members and public. The pictures are the museum's seal, a circular emblem with the words Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass, Founded A.D. 1870 around a ring enclosing Art, Education and Industry linked by interlaced cords, rendered as crisp black line engraving on white and on textured grey paper. A designer could take the seal's radial lettering, interlaced knotwork and tripartite roundel as a model for institutional emblems and badges, while the fourth picture is a cropped fragment of a curved metal object with faint inscription that adds little.
