text:  The meadow was decked with a profusion of bright flowers to which a grateful shelter was afforded by the dense overhanging foliage of the shrubs and clumps of trees which were interspersed at intervals throughout its extent; while so skilfully had the artist represented the appearance of light and shade that the rays of the sun were seen to pass here and there through the interstices of the leaves and cast a softened radiance on the ground underneath