“You will perceive by this short quotation, that I have
been looking into your tenth chapter, which contains the event of the subject
you propose to me for the chimney-piece of your dining-room, and which I think
a very good one. The figures, half lengths, on a canvass of 6 feet by 4½ or 5.
A Guercino size, I suppose. Not an
upright posture. Lorenzo, Politiano, Pico. The most striking, and, for a painter, the most
expressive moment of this scene appears to me that, when
Lorenzo, grasping the hands of his friend, steadfastly
regards him; whilst Politiano, to conceal his emotion and
tears, turns his face aside. But at that moment Pico was
not yet arrived; a circumstance, how-
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