text:  In consequence of this mistake in a very admirable picture of a storm which I have seen of his hand many figures are introduced in the foreground some in apparent distress and some struck dead as a spectator would naturally suppose by lightning: had not the painter injudiciously (as I think ) rather chosen that their death should be imputed to a little Apollo who appears in the sky with his bent bow and that those figures should be considered as the children of Niobe