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Excerpt from Provisional Catalogue of the Oil Paintings and Water Colours in the Wallace Collection: With Short Notices of the Painters
The collection was bequeathed on the condition that the Government for the time being should agree to give a site in a central part of London, and build thereon a special museum to contain it, and it was provided that the said collection should always be kept together, unmixed with other objects of art, and should be styled The Wallace Collection.
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