Portraits in Norfolk Houses, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Portraits in Norfolk Houses, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick Duleep Singh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Portraits in Norfolk Houses, Vol. 1 He commenced this great work about 1903 (although long ere that time he had been especially interested in East Anglian portraiture), and carried it on almost continually till the end of 1913 and then a year or two later when he joined the forces, during the Great War, he commissioned me, using my own book on Suffolk Portraits as a guide, to write out for him the aforesaid notes, undoubtedly intending them to be ready for publication and he instructed me to add biographies, visiting when necessary his library at Blo' Norton, suggesting to me that I Should use The Complete Peerage and Baronetage by which work he loaned me for the purpose. In 1919, after he had returned from France, he revised some of the lists, making corrections and additions, hoping that ere long he would be able to publish the work at a price which would enable people with only limited incomes to purchase it but the cost of printing and publishing remained so long at a prohibitive price, the idea was abandoned. Three years ago there appeared to be a decided improvement in such matters, and the Prince, with interest renewed, took up the work again however, indifferent health, followed by impaired energy and strength, would not allow of his doing the same to his satisfaction, and his untimely death in 1926 brought it to an end. It seemed to me unthinkable that the Prince's invaluable labour of so many years Should remain dormant and almost useless, were the ms. Only to exist in a library, more especially as I knew that so many of his friends in the county and elsewhere were anxious to possess a copy of it, and be able to refer to it in future years so I determined to do my best to see it through the press, and render it available for use by the general public. I had been with him on so many of his visitations, I had discussed with him almost every interesting portrait, and I knew a great deal of his mind on the subject of portraiture in general that I felt I might be better able to do justice to his work than a stranger, however much more knowledge he might have on that extensive theme than I possessed. I trust, therefore, that my efforts in editing the work may be accepted and made use of in the same spirit in which they are here offered. 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.