A Catalogue of One Hundred Original Drawings by Zucchero, Andrea Del Sarto, Polidore Da Caravaggio, and Fra Bartolomeo

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Excerpt from A Catalogue of One Hundred Original Drawings by Zucchero, Andrea Del Sarto, Polidore Da Caravaggio, and Fra Bartolomeo: Collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Late President of the Royal AcademyAt a General Assembly of the Members of the royal academy, held at their Apartments in Somerset House, on the 25th day of February, 1831, Being fully impressed with the value and importance of the Collection of Drawings formed with so much care and skill by our late distinguished President, Sir Thomas Lawrence and considere ing that its dispersion into private hands, or its transmissmn to the Cabinet of some foreign Sovereign, would be a severe loss to the Arts of our country, and a discredit to our national taste, con ceiving, also, that it is a duty of a body constituted as the Royal Academy has been, for the guardianship and promotion of the Arts, to use such means as may be in their power for the preven tion of a result so much to be deprecated, the President and the Members of the Royal Academy have resolved.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology 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.