A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s3.t1.10
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s3.t1.10
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The considerable collection of Tibetan drawings and paintings, presented by Mr. Brian Hodgson to the Institut de France and still preserved there, has had the good fortune to have been described by two eminent scholars, M. Barthélemy St. Hilaire and M. A. Foucher. M. St. Hilaire, who formed a higher estimate of the artistic quality of a set of ten numbered paintings in the collection than M. Foucher can accept, criticized them generally in the following terms :—