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Gray, Francis Calley, 1790-1856

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dates 1790-1856
city Boston
stateMA
sex M
historical notes Hon. Francis Calley Gray was a collector and curator of shells for two natural history museums.

His print collection which included work by, among others, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Marc-Antonio Raimondi and Baccio Baldini was given to Harvard in 1857.

Calley was in Harvard's graduating class of 1809.
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Boston Athenaeum

Library of the Boston Athenæum
Francis Gray Calley Letters, ca. 1809-ca. 1829. see details...
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street


Francis Calley Gray [photograph], [ca. 1840].
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