Excerpt from Wallace Collection Catalogues: Pictures and Drawings, With Historical Notes, Short Lives of the Painters, and 380 Illustrations In addition to pictures and drawings are large groups of miniatures and wax-reliefs. There is, besides, a notable collection of sculpture and one of medals; furniture, chiefly French of the eighteenth century, a collection unsurpassed; enamels, porcelain and faience, the collection of Sevres being matched only by that at Windsor and Buckingham Palace; ivories, glass, snuff-boxes, and other objects of art, ranging from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, with a few Roman antiques and isolated pieces like the seventh century Bell of St. Mura. Finally there is the rich collection of European arms and armour, and the Oriental section, re-arranged and catalogued in 1914. The history of the whole Collection, from first to last, it may prove impossible to make out, and we shall confine ourselves here to the Paintings and Drawings; but it may be said that, while it is probable that a certain number of objects other than paintings was inherited by the fourth Marquess of Hertford, the great bulk of these, as well as of the pictures, was acquired by him a great part of the Renaissance collection of objects, as well as a number of pictures, was bought by his successor Sir Richard Wallace, and it was he who chiefly formed the collection of Arms and Armour. 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.