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Excerpt from The Knowledge and Restoration of Old Paintings: The Modes of Judging Between Copies and Originals and a Brief Life of the Principal Masters in the Different Schools of Painting
Among the numerous and useful works pub lished for the benefit of travellers, we have not yet found a compendium of the subjects treated on ill the following pages, of a suitable arrange ment and size for a corner in the traveller's portmanteau.
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