PLATE LXXVII
SHEEP IN THE TRENCH
BODY COLOUR ON BLUE. ABOUT 1830
PLATE LXXVIII
SHIPPING ON THE RIVA DEGLI SCHIAVONI. VENICE
WATER COLOUR. ABOUT 1839
intoxication of colour had become the dominant and essential factor in his art, and that the vagueness of his ideas could only be adequately expressed by allusion and suggestion. These vignettes and the engravings made from them vary widely in value. One or two of them are worthy of the artist, for example the ‘Datur hora quieti,’ ‘The Alps at Daybreak’ and the ‘Melrose,’ but for the most part they owe the very great popular success they have enjoyed to the skill with which the artist has entered into the spirit of the second-and third-rate poetry he was called upon to illustrate, and to the admirable way in which his suggestions were engraved.