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Letter from Roger E. Fry to [Henry Clay] Frick, 6 July 1910
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was even at the beginning. He thinks it far finer than the National Gallery Rembrandts which he has copied. The insurance Company are arranging to send it out at the end of this week under personal ?? & I have NOTIFIED?? Tice & Lynch to facilitate its receiption.
Now as to two important pictures of which you may care to have news. 1. The Holbein published in the Burlington Magazine for July. This is of course a very interesting and important picture and may well be the lost INSERTED TEXT Holbein /INSERTED TEXT of such importance to come into the market. I don't know what price is being asked for it. I don't say that it is not worth a very high price but in considering its value I wish you to know that while the dress and hands are in excellent condition and as beautiful as anything Holbein did at this period the face has been considerably retouched & has lost its purity of texture and quality. 2/ A small portrait by Rogier van der Weyden of Lionello SIC d'Este Prince of Ferrara ?? ?? Van der Weyden was in Italy in 1449.
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