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much lessened, but also the scale both of 

 light and colour, is equally lowered. 



" I must here put you in mind of a cir- 

 cumstance, that I dare say you will re- 

 member, though you could little expect to 

 hear it introduced on this occasion. Do 

 not you recollect calling upon me some 

 time ago, when I was looking over some 

 prints? They were by this very master, 

 Rembrandt; one 'of them was of a very 

 ugly woman, in a filthy and indecent atti- 

 tude, from which I remember you turned 

 with extreme disgust : yet, that was merely 

 a little black and white print ! what then 

 would have been your disgust, if, upon 

 entering my room, you had seen a picture 

 of the same beastly creature as large as 

 life, and the wty>le detail as distinctly co- 

 loured and expressed, as in this head of 

 Denner ! I believe it would have been 

 only less, than if you had seen the real ob- 

 ject. iEschylus, you know, makes one of 

 his characters say &fy>x« xtwov ; I thinH 

 such a representation, would justify the 

 application of the same daring figure to 



