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oak groves and seeing a beautiful lilte forest of Yew trees with their nice deep green foliage & rich warm [stems?]. Asthe sun was just setting it made some charming pictures, throwing places into warm shadow and making deep spots, contrasting finely with the passages of golden light. There were some holley trees, which with their white edged leaved looked very fanciful. 27th. In the morning we went to see the Vernon Gallery, which is in Marlborough house, on Pall Mall near the foot of St. James's Street. We first entered a small vestibule, from which we passed into a large round room, with an arched ceiling decorated with paintings, and some sculpture placed round the wall. Turning to our right we enter the first gallery, in which there is a series of pictures by Hogarth, called the Mariage a la Mode, We were not struck with them as being particularly fine. There is also a portrait of Hogarth himself. One of the most prominent works in this room is the death of

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Lord       by Copley. Sir Thomas Lawrence's full length of Mr. Siddons, and Sir. Joshua Reynold's portrait of Lord Hearthfield, are also in the apartment. We next entered a small room in which we saw Wilkie's "blind fiddler" It is a small work, cool in colour, and very smooth and finished. And two large landscapes by Richard Wilson, Appolo destroying the children of Niobe, and a villa near Rome. Father liked them both, on account of their massiveness and grandure. After this we passed through a series of apartments filled with works by eminent English artists. Amongst which we were most interested in [[Mulready's?]] school, Landseer's "peace" and "war" and a very fine picture by him of a pair of little dogs lying by a hat. Stanfield's battle of Trafalgar, and another marine by him, remarkable for its naturalness. Some works by Etty and Wilkie, and a remarkable picture by Turner, a view on the grand canal, Venice, in oil, and painted in so slovenly a manner, that the paint in the