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Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Dulwich College Gallery: With Biographical Notices of the Painters
Mausoleum attached to the Gallery, in accordance with their wishes. The first Keeper of the Gallery was Mr. Ralph Cockburn he was in charge of the pictures from October 1816, until his death in 1820. He was an engraver, and published a set of prints in mezzotint, or soft ground, coloured, of fifty of the pictures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.