Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 167
one; and, as in the artthere is plenty of fine painting but very few good pictures, soin poetry there is plenty of fine writing—and I am told thisis such —and, as you say, gorgeous. But it can be compared.Shakspeare cannot, nor Burns, nor Claude, nor Ruysdael ; andit has taken me twenty years to… … i822.] STUDIES OF SKJES. 115 Keppel Street we wanted room, and were like bottled waspsupon a southern wall, but the five happiest years of my life werepassed there. Twenty of Constables studies of skies made during thisseason are in my possession, and there is but one among them inwhich a vestige…
Contable, John, 1776-1837 · Artists
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