“I finished, as far as I intend, the copy of Hippolito de Medici, for Northcote, the day after I wrote to him; and the day following
I began a copy of a part of the Transfiguration, by
Raphael, which had not been
exhibited in the common or large room till the week before. I have nearly done
the head of the boy, who is supposed to see Christ in his Ascension from the
Mount, and who is the principal figure in the piece. I shall paint it in
another morning. It is the best copy I have done, though I have been only
fifteen hours about it. There will be two other figures included in the canvas;
this is 4 feet 8 in. high, and 10 feet 8 in. in breadth. You will easily get a
distinct idea of the size of the picture by measuring it on the parlour floor.
Northcote’s copy, and that of the Death of Clorinda, are the same size. The
Transfiguration itself is about three times as high, and three times as wide.
It is by no means the
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