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Rh though the easel pictures of this period also are nearly exclusively oil pieces.

With these preliminary remarks we leave this little work to perform its own task. It pretends to no sort of completeness, but is simply what it professes to be, a little pocket hand-book, to be used as a companion in the picture galleries and the churches of Italy; and it is hoped that it will be found sufficiently small, so as not to inconvenience even a lady’s hand, and yet so full of matter, as not to be laid aside without affording some information even to the most experienced.