Life and letters of John Constable, RA . ;^* THt LOCK. F«..M AN PKOOI Mv Tc c. K. , NOW m THKrOSSCSSION 01 Tint 1825] PICTURE OF THE LOCK: >7i bright. . My Lock is now on my easel; it is silvery, windy,and delicious ; all health, and the absence of everything stagnant,and is wonderfully got together; the print will be fine. ... Iam so harassed and interrupted that I must now conclude almostas abruptly as I did my last. . The visit to Osmington Imuch look to. Nothing shall readily occur to prevent it. I willgive up Paris first. ... I have rather
Life and letters of John Constable, RA . ;^* THt LOCK. F«..M AN PKOOI Mv Tc c. K. , NOW m THKrOSSCSSION 01 Tint 1825] PICTURE OF THE LOCK: >7i bright. . My Lock is now on my easel; it is silvery, windy,and delicious ; all health, and the absence of everything stagnant,and is wonderfully got together; the print will be fine. ... Iam so harassed and interrupted that I must now conclude almostas abruptly as I did my last. . The visit to Osmington Imuch look to. Nothing shall readily occur to prevent it. I willgive up Paris first. ... I have rather a cheering account of mypicture at Somerset House. Its original feeling will support methrough all inaccuracies. But they should not be there, to makeit more academical, and to prevent the learned vulgar in our artfrom blowing their noses upon it. ... I am summoned to teawith my wife and new baby.* Constables description of his picture of The Lock, andsome passages from other letters in a similar strain of exultation,have been retained
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