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Title: Life and letters of John Constable, R. A
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
Subjects: Contable, John, 1776-1837 Artists
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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od one, was necessary this year. The next musttake its chance. I hope, indeed, I really believe I have never yetdone anything so good as the one now sent. Stothard has published his beautiful etching of the shield ofWellington, three-and-a-half feet circle. Oblige me and my dearold friend by purchasing one. My conscience acquits me of anyneglect to my last picture. I have dismissed it with greatcalmness and ease of mind. Of this picture, another view on the Stour, and very near Flatford Mill, an admirable line engraving, by Mr. W. R. Smith,is published in Messrs. Findens Gallery of British Art, anda first sketch of the subject is engraved in the EnglishLandscape. Keppel Street, April xjth. My dear Fisher,—Accept my thanks for your very kindletter. The contents will be highly useful, for, as I told you, Ihad been so long upon unprofitable canvas that I was getting hardrun. But I am now busy on some minor works which will bringthings soon about again. My writing requires much apology,
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3O i822.) FARRINGTONS HOUSE. ii. but I seldom sit down till I am already fatigued in my painting-room, and near the post hour, and I must say of my letters, asNorthcote says of his pictures, I leave them for the ingenious tofind out. I made two or three fruitless attempts to read the lastI sent you, and the postman ringing his bell at the moment, I dis-missed it. I must work hard this summer, but I should like muchto take the Windsor coach to hear your sermon, though I can illspare a day, and now that I have an opportunity of earning a littlemoney, I must make it a religious duty to do it. I shall not letthe Frenchman have my picture. It would be too bad to allowmyself to be knocked down by a Frenchman. In short, it mayfetch my family something, one time or another, and it would bedisgracing my diploma to take so small a sum, less by near one-half than the price I asked. Several cheering things have lately happened to me—pro-fessionally. I am certain my reputation rises as a landsca

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