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The Print Room at Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle, in Windsor, Berkshire in the England county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle






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The Print Room at Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle, in Windsor, Berkshire in the England county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William I of England, is the oldest in continuous occupation....
 is a print room
Print Room

The Print Room at Windsor Castle is a print room which is an office in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Monarch of the United Kingdom....
 which is an office in the Royal Collection
Royal Collection

The Royal Collection is the art collection of the British Royal Family. It is property of the monarch as sovereign, but is held in trust for her successors and the nation....
 Department of the Royal Household
Royal Household

The royal household in all the early medieval monarchies of Western Europe formed the basis for the general government of the country. In the modern period in Europe, royal households have become increasingly separate from government, where they still exist....
 of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collections of drawing
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
s and old master print
Old master print

An old master print is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition . A date of about 1830 is usually taken as marking the end of the period whose prints are covered by this term....
s (engraving
Engraving

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass engraving are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustra...
s etc), which is one of the finest in the world. The term refers to both an institution and a room, and is under the direction of the Royal Librarian
Royal Librarian

The office of Royal Librarian in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Monarch of the United Kingdom is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of books and manuscripts owned by the Monarch in an official capacity — as distinct from those owned privately and displayed at Sandringham House...
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