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Excerpt from Second Catalogue of the Collection of Ancient and Modern Works of Art, Given or Loaned to the Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, at Boston: Now on Exhibition in the Picture Gallery of the Athenaeum The collection herein catalogued is composed of works of Art given or loaned to the Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts. It contains a series of objects which illustrate a wide range of artistic activity in point of time and use of material, including a very valuable collection of Egyptian antiquities, and many specimens of ancient and modern glass, bronze and pottery, greece-italian vases, Italian Majolica, Venetian glass, illuminated manuscripts, tapestry, and pictures; and forms an artistic microcosm, well calculated to teach the visitor something of the character and quality of the art industry of many nations during a long period of the world's history. 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."