Excerpt from An Introduction to the Study Collection of Ancient Prints, Vol. 2
Mr. Hamerton remarks of Duret's etchings, that 'it would be an affeétation to fay very much beyond this, that they are right in workmanihip and as good in conception as the artiil's other religious pieces.'
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