[[123]] The pictures referred to are: The Death of Nelson, The Battle of Trafalgar, and The Fighting Téméraire being towed to its Last Berth (see cut). The first and third are in the National Gallery, London.
[[124]] Matthew xxiii, 14.
[[125]] Santa Maria della Salute, a church conspicuously situated at the junction of the Grand Canal and the Giudecca.
[[126]] Liber Studiorum. "Interior of a church." It is worthy of remark that Giorgione and Titian are always delighted to have an opportunity of drawing priests. The English Church may, perhaps, accept it as matter of congratulation that this is the only instance in which Turner drew a clergyman. [Ruskin.]
[[127]] 1785.
[[128]] Wolsey's famous palace, twelve miles from London.
[[129]] I do not mean that this is his first acquaintance with the country, but the first impressive and touching one, after his mind was formed. The earliest sketches I found in the National Collection are at Clifton and Bristol; the next, at Oxford. [Ruskin.]
[[130]] The reference is to the two famous ruined abbeys of Yorkshire—Whitby and Bolton.
[[131]] The Tenth Plague of Egypt. [Ruskin.]
[[132]] Rizpah, the Daughter of Aiah. [Ruskin.]