Catalogue of the Drawings and Sketches

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Drawings and SketchesI have had no heart myself, during recent illness, to finish the catalogue which, for my own poor exoneration from the shame Of the matter, I began last year. But in its present form it may be Of some use in the coming Christmas holidays, and relieve the kindness Of Mr. Oldham from unnecessary burden. The Trustees Of the National Gallery will I trust forgive my assumption that, some day or other, they may enable their keeper to remedy the evils in the existing arrangement; if not by displacing some Of the pictures Of inferior interest in the great galleries, at least by adding above their marble pillars and vaulted ceilings, such a dry and skylighted garret as any photographic establishment.