Autograph letter signed : Munich, to Mrs. Hewitt, [1859] July 24.

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Autograph letter signed : Munich, to Mrs. Hewitt, [1859] July 24.

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Telling her that "the art of Germany has made me more ill and sorrowful than I can remember being yet in my life. It is so bad that considering the applause it has received from Europe generally, I feel as if nothing more were to be said or done about art for a hundred years to come. If one were a music-master and had been told that a nation was great in music and going to hear, found that its concerts were always arranged for cats, peacock and cockatoos to take the principal parts, one would return from the investigation in the hopeless, helpless astonishment in which I find myself now respecting pictures."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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