Excerpt from A Catalogue of a Truly Choice and Capital Collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures: Comprising Superb Gallery Chef D'oeuvres, and an Assemblage of High-Finished Cabinet Bijoux of the Finest Class, and in Exquisite Preservation, Being the Admired Collection, Lately Exhibited at the Academy Rooms in Pall Mall Mount, prevm'us t'othe 1ntended gacrifice; on the Ieft, Broken Woody Ground, the middle Scene de'sciibesf a' Rich Country, embellished with. Water and Buildings; This beautiful Chef d'oelivre is painted on a gold ground, which gives a surprising(14) 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 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.