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inscribed in pen and blue ink "your Watteau (a copy by)/Leslie of Le Bal champètre/(in Dulwich Gallery)/looked colder than the original/which seems as if painted in/honey. So mellow, so tender,/so soft, so delicious; so I trust/yours will be; but be satisfied/if you touch but the hem of his/garment for this incrutable/& exquisite thing would/vulgarise even Rubens/& Paul Veronese./In referring to critics who/turn from Dutch work/in favour of Italian/Constable says -- "It may/be doubted whether those who do not/relish the works of Dutch & Flemish/schools are capable of fully/appreciating the Italian school/for a true taste is seldom/never a HALF taste."
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