text:  Look closely at his pictures and a few patches dashes and streaks only are visible which seem a mere chaos of colour; but retire to the proper distance what magnificent visions grow into shape; how the long avenue lengthens out for miles; how the sun-clad city brightens on the mountain--the stream descends _from_ the eye--the distance spreads out into infinity!--all these apparently unmeaning spots or accidents of colour in which it is difficult to detect the work of the hand or pencil at all being in fact mysterious but speaking hieroglyphics based on profound combinations of colour and light and shadow and full of the finest harmonies to all who can look at nature with the eye of imagination