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Excerpt from A Catalogue of a Select and Singularly Valuable Collection of Paintings, the Property of a Gentleman of Fortune: Whose Taste Will Display Itself in the Choice of the Noble Productions of Those Great Masters, Domenichini, Leonardo Da Vinci, Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Nicola Poussin, Michael Ang. Buonarotti, Canaletti, Spagnoletto, Raphael, &C A Sea Port: a small glowing and interesting Picture of this deservedly favourite French Master. A Sunset, with Figures and Shipping. 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.