Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters: With an Introduction Q prints, or the carefully placed pedigree which helps him in buying a painting, are alike absent. The drawing may bear the marks of one or two famous collectors, but beyond this the buyer has nothing to guide him. One cannot imagine a man buying a drawing without making up his own mind, irrespective of what any one else may think, as to whether he believes the drawing to be by the artist to whom it is attributed; and even if genuine, whether it is one of those essentially characteristic records which give, in its purest and freest form, just what the master has added to art. 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.