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A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.80

A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.80

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c20.s2.80

A certain splendid album in the British Museum (Add. MS. 18801) offers, inscribed with a note by its former possessor, a most curious donation. In selecting from its contents pictures for reproduction, I am able to avail myself of the authority of Sir Joshua Reynolds, who examined the collection in July, 1777, and expressed his particular admiration for the following pieces: