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PAINTING IN ENGLAND;

With fome Account of the principal Artists;

And incidental NOTES on other ARTS;

Collected by the late

Mr. GEORGE VERTUE;

And now digested and published from his original MSS.

By Mr. HORACE WALPOLE.

To which is added

The HISTORY of

The MODERN TASTE in GARDENING,

The Glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the Fir-Tree, the Pine-Tree,
and the Box together, to beautify the Place of my San&uary, and I will
make the Place of my Feet glorious.
Isaiah, LX. 13.

The THIRD EDITION with ADDITIONS.

VOLUME the FOURTH and laft.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, PALL-MALL.

M.DCC.LXXXVI.

ART

TO HIS GRACE

CHARLES,

Duke of RICHMOND, LENOx, and AUBIGNY.

MY LORD,

T is not to court protection to this

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work; it is not to celebrate your Grace's virtues and abilities, which want no panegyric; it is to indulge the fentiments of refpect and esteem, that I take the liberty of prefixing your name to this volume, the former parts of thefe Anecdotes having been infcribed to a Lady, now dead, to whom I had great obligations.

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