Excerpt from Catalogue of Pictures in the Posession of Beriah Botfield, Esq.: At Norton Hall
The present Collection has been formed with the sole intention of adding to the comforts of an English home the additional luxury of "walls hung round with thoughts."
This Catalogue has been printed with the view of preserving those minute particulars, which, if not recorded at the time, are lost for ever. Much that seems trivial to us may be interesting to our descendants, and property of whatever kind is not the less valuable because it may be associated with its traditions.
Elaborate descriptions are but imperfect vehicles for conveying ideas of pictorial representations. No language, however glowing, can paint with sufficient distinctness the impressions conveyed to the mind by the best works of the Old Masters. All should be said which is necessary for the identification of the Painting, but beyond this the busy power of the imagination may be happily substituted for any force of words.
Whenever the Paintings are on any other material than canvass, the fact has been noticed, and the figures annexed to each denote the heighth and width of the frame, shewing the space occupied by the Picture on the wall.
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