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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Private Gallery of Valuable Paintings by American and Foreign Masters Belonging to Mr. W. G. Peckham, of Westfield, New Jersey: To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale on Tuesday Evening, March 29th, 1921, at the American Art Galleries All these and others in this collection of nearly a hundred pictures testify to the owner's active interest in art, his catholicity of taste and his discrimination. Bringing them together was evidently a pleasur able and edifying pursuit. An opportunity is offered to others, now that the pictures are to be dispersed, to pick and choose according to their liking. 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.