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at least one or more each by Fra Angelico, Filippo and 

 Filippino Lippi, Verrocchio, Botticelli (whose " Abundance "' 

 is perhaps the most beautiful Italian drawing of the fifteenth 

 century extant), Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Pinturicchio, Luca 

 Signorelli, Timoteo Viti, Antonello da Messina, Carpaccio,. 

 J. de Barbarj, etc. ; with five or six by Leonardo da Vinci and 

 his immediate scholars (including the master's celebrated 

 early "Head of a Warrior in fantastic armour"), 20 by 

 Michelangelo, 15 by Fra Bartolommeo, 10 or 12 by Raphael,, 

 four or five by Oorreggio, as many by Titian ; with others^ 

 too numerous to mention by anonymous, subordinate,, and 

 later masters. In the Flemish and Dutch schools, 10 or 12 

 unusually fine examples of fifteenth centurj^ work, including 

 the famous portrait formerly in the Mitchell collection, and 

 attributed to Van Eyck ; two first-rate examples of the elder 

 Brueghel, five or six by H. Goltzius, six or eight studies by 

 Rubens, 10 or 12 by Van Dyck, two by Snyders, four or five hy 

 Teniers, eight by Bakhuisen, including some of his finest 

 work ; 12 by Berchem, two by Both, one of which, from the 

 Nieuwenh uys collection, is probably his finest extant drawing ; 

 five by Cuyp, seven by Everdingen, four by Van Go yen, 

 two of particular interest by Van der Heyden, six or seven 

 by Karel du Jardin ; five by F. and W. Mieris, 10 or 12 by 

 the Ostades, about 20 by Rembrandt, four b}^ Ruysdael, 

 three fine architectural drawings by Saenredam, two by 

 Esaias and eight by Adrian van de Velde, etc. Among the 

 works of the German school are several anonymous of the 

 fifteenth century ; two by Martin Schongauer, and 12 by 

 Albert Diirer, two by the elder and two or three by the 

 younger Holbein ; among the French, 25 of fine quality by 

 Claude Lorrain ; four or five by Nicolas Poussin, and 14 by 

 Watteau. 



The engravings are, almost without exception, rare 

 examples of the finest quality and in perfect preservation. 

 They include 10 prints in the primitive manner known as- 

 the vianiere criblte, 25 fine Italian nielli (or more properly 

 prints in the niello manner) by the master known as Peregrine 

 daCesena; the celebrated set of the 50 so-called " Tarocchi 

 di Mantegna," by a master of the Ferrarese school working 

 about 1470, formerly belonging to M. Galichon ; the equally 

 famous and almost unique Florentine set of 12 Sibyls in the 

 " fine manner," attributed to Baccio Baldini; the large Assump- 

 tion of the Virgin engraved in the " broad manner," on tw^o 

 plates, from the design of Botticelli; with picked examples 

 by other primitive Italian engravers as Mantegna, Mocetto, 

 Robetta, Barbarj, and Campagnola ; and 40 of the finest 

 works of Marcantonio in perfect condition. The primitive 

 German engravings include rarities like the " Three living 

 and the three dead Kings," by the master of the Amsterdam' 

 Cabinet; a contemporary copy of the unique "Arms of 

 Charles the Bold," by the master of the Banderoles ; 17 small 



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