The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Kt. Late President of the Royal Academy; Containing His Discourses, Papers in the Idler, the Journal of a Tour Through Flanders and Holland, and Also His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting. Printed from the Author's Revised Copies, with His Last Corrections and Additions. In Three Volumes. To which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of the Author, by Edmond Malone, Esq. One of His Executors ... Volume the First [-third]


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Keeping Their Marbles


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The story of how the museums of the West acquired their fabulous collections, from the Benin Bronzes to Native American sacred objects, and why they should not by returned to the lands -- or the people -- from which they came.













The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Kt. Late President of the Royal Academy;


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