Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London : Pub. at the Punch Office · leaf 145
be so like life that it seemed to be literally starting from the canvas. He made another of Alexander on horseback, which the King did not hke ; but ahorse passing by at the time neighed at the horse in the picture, which the artist declaredto be a compliment ; but as Ave have no equestrian… … conspiring against the life of Ptolemy, and would have been put to death had not thereal conspirator come forward and saved the painter, thus magnanimously refusing tothrow the painter overboard. Apicius, a famous glutton in Rome, wlio ate a leg of mutton and trimmings againstHorace for a trifling…
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