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- ↑ "CMA Exhibition Feature : More About the Schweidler Restorers".
- ↑ Lauren Laz, Olivier Masson, and Michaela Ritter, 'Durer's Adam and Eve and a Possible 'Schweidlerization,' Print Quarterly, XXXI, 2014, pp. 259-269.
- ↑ Lauren Laz, Olivier Masson, and Michaela Ritter, 'Durer's Adam and Eve and a Possible 'Schweidlerization,' Print Quarterly, XXXI, 2014, pp. 259-269.
- ↑ M. Schweidler, The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books and Other Works on Paper, translated from German and edited by R. Perkinson, Los Angeles, 2006 (Die Instandsetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Büchern usw., 1st edition, Stuttgart, 1938, 2nd edition 1950).
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