824. A RUINED CASTLE.
Cuyp (Dutch: 1620-1691). See 53.
The castle may be the same as that seen in No. 1289. Some lines from Beattie's "Scotland" have been applied to it:—
Behold our lakes ...
Each girdled with its mountain belt
Of rock and tower and forest trees,
And gemmed with island sanctuaries
Like floating palaces, they seem
The elysium of a poet's dream.
This picture was originally bought at Horn, in the Netherlands, of an old clothesman, for 1s. 3d. Sir Robert Peel paid 350 guineas for it.