Show spurious work works of art early that there were sham pictures pic turea of apelles and spurious marbles of phidias or and false gems of teles in old greek times is more than probable it is ct certain ir tain indeed that an infinite number of copies and imitations ot of the works of these immortals on which nevertheless th tb eless their names were shamelessly sh ame lessly pain painted tedor or gra graven kravenas venas as the case might be a abounded bounded in antiquity and are now often e enough every evidence goes to show in short that art frauds were as rife and universal in the classic ages of greece and rome as in our own nineteenth century |