Anecdotes of Painting in England, Vol. 4: With Some Account of the Principal Artists; And Incidental Notes on Other Arts (Classic Reprint) by Horace Walpole (Paperback / softback, 2015)
Excerpt from Anecdotes of Painting in England, Vol. 4: With Some Account of the Principal Artists; And Incidental Notes on Other Arts It is t to court protection to this work; it is t to celebrate your Grace's virtues and abilities, which want panegyric; it is to indulge the sentiments of respect and esteem, that I take the liberty of prefixing your name to this volume, the former parts of these Anecdotes having been inscribed to a Lady, w dead, to whom I had great obligations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.