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Excerpt from A Catalogue of a Truly Capital and Highly Valuable Assemblage Chiefly of Distinguished Italian, and a Few Spanish, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures of the Finest Class: The Genuine and Entire Collection of William Young Ottley, Esq. J W1 by Guidd himself, biit' for the most part by his school' independent of' itdmi'etit, the oiiginanty orthté'pic'isre w 'is uneqmvoe'fll y prbved by the several alterations, or, nhjm' as the Italiawris e'all'them, pentimentz', which, upon m it maybe seen, the artist made in his picture in the course of its' execution. 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.