Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 243
d with so much truth and originality, so much art, so little artifice. * Yours very truly, S. W. Reynolds. Reynolds was interrupted in the execution of his plate by ill-ness, and did not live to complete it; but the same subject, froma second picture, has since been mo.st admirably engraved, on… … o I I I- i82S.] THE LEAPING HORSE. 175 largest. The chief object in its foreground is a horse, mountedby a boy, leaping one of the barriers which cross the towing-paths along the Stour (for it is that river, and not a canal), toprevent the cattle from quitting their bounds. As these bars arewithout…
Contable, John, 1776-1837 · Artists
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