Excerpt from Hints on Portraits and How to Catalogue Them: A Talk Given to the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts at Philadelphia, Monday Evening, April 18, 1898, Being the First Annual MeetingTo Philadelphia, until some fourscore years ago, the right to be looked upon as the Athens of America.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.