The Oallery of Masterpieces 



^|fS the most re- 



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markable Art 

 Publication ever 

 presented in Amer- 

 ica, because it com- 

 bines the greatest 

 beauty of repro- 

 duction with the 

 minimum of cost. 



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-ytf^HE collection consists of fifty pictures (miniature suggestions of one 

 ^w^ is here given) and represents, by a new and secret process, the finest 

 works of the world's most famous painters in the wonderful art period 

 between 1400 and 1800. 



Each photo-mezzotint is 15x20 inches, and is accompanied by a page of 

 critical notes by Sir Martin Conway, Slade Professor of Art, Cambridge 

 University. 



When it was issued in Europe this work caused amazement in art circles ; 

 it seemed incredible that such exquisite beauty and fidelity of repro- 

 ductive tone could by any process be executed and delivered to the 

 public so inexpensively. 



If it astonished the critical it delighted art lovers in general. 

 It solved the problem how to enrich the home with the refining graces 

 of true art on terms that are within the means of the most careful pur- 



