Excerpt from An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe MY book pretends to be nothing more nor less than its title indicates. It is expressly the record of an Art Tour; it does not profess to give descriptions of scenery, or to deal with matters of science. I have endeavoured to put into as concise and at; tractive a form as possible all the information I could gather during a journey taken in the summer of 1870, for the purpose of collecting whatever art materials might be scattered over the Northern Capitals of Europe. The territory, though not unexplored, had scarcely become beaten ground. I may say that the route was new and informing to myself, for though familiar with the chief galleries and museums of Europe, I had still to make acquaintance with the art treasures of Copen hagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. 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.