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Campbell Dodgson
1867–1948
Best known for bringing deep expertise in prints and drawings to the British Museum, this thoughtful scholar helped shape how generations of readers and curators encountered Northern European art. He also wrote widely on printmaking, with a special interest in German and Flemish masters.
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The Etchings of Charles Meryon
by Campbell Dodgson
About the author
Born on August 13, 1867, Campbell Dodgson was a British art historian and museum curator whose career became closely tied to the British Museum. He joined the museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings in 1893 and later served as Keeper of Prints and Drawings from 1912 to 1932.
Dodgson was especially respected for his knowledge of German and Flemish prints and drawings. Alongside his museum work, he published studies and catalogues on printmaking, including work on early German and Flemish woodcuts and later writing on contemporary woodcuts as well.
He died on July 11, 1948. Today he is remembered as a careful, influential figure in the study of works on paper, and as part of the wider Dodgson family that also included the writer Lewis Carroll as a distant cousin.