text:  It is not in such subjects alone that our artists transgress Sir Joshua's rule; we too often see portraits where the dress and accessaries obtrude--there is too much lace and too little expression--and our painters of views follow the fashion most unaccountably--ornament is every where; we have not a town where the houses are not "turned out of windows " and all the furniture of every kind piled up in the streets; and as if to show a pretty general bankruptcy together with the artist's own poverty you would imagine an auction going on in every other house by the Turkey carpets and odds and ends hanging from the windows