203:. It was not so much their artistic value that interested him, but rather their documentary and ethnographic significance. His collection was organized into several categories: Historical Prints, Customs and Traditions, Theater, Popular Literature and Iconography, Means of Transport, Arts and Crafts, Commerce and Advertising, small prints of personal subjects, book ornaments, and colored papers.
233:. About 300,000 pieces from Bertarelli were transferred to the municipality. After this donation, Achille Bertarelli continued to actively participate in the life of the print cabinet, making numerous donations of new pieces and encouraging the research efforts of scholars frequenting the new institution. Upon his death in 1938, the municipality renamed the collection
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Bertarelli published the first inventory of his collection, with the aim of making it known to historians and art historians. Indeed, the collector readily opened the doors of his home on Via San Barnaba to those wishing to study his prints, which were classified to form an
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The prints donated by
Achille Bertarelli to the city are recognizable by his AB stamp (Lugt 73), which he affixed to each piece. In his dictionary of collection marks, Fritz Lugt indicates that "to avoid the chances of theft, Bertarelli trims all his prints 1 cm. outside the engraved part,
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Bertarelli assembled an important collection of popular literature works and ephemera. Part of this collection was donated during his lifetime to the National Library of Brera. It served as material for several of his publications.
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Menegazzi significantly enriched Bertarelli's fledgling collection. The collector then possessed a representative set of the production of the most important Italian print publisher of the 18th century.
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Bertarelli also assembled a collection of 20,000 documents related to World War I, mainly composed of news sheets, propaganda pamphlets, trench newspapers, and postcards.
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considering this removes their commercial value while preserving their documentary interest."
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in his honor, recognizing his role as founder. The cabinet then preserved 400,000 pieces.
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