text:  The great light is in the sky; and indeed the general effect of this picture which is so striking is no more than what we often see in landscapes in small pictures of fairs and country feasts: but those principles of light and shadow being transferred to a large scale to a space containing near a hundred figures as large as life and conducted to all appearance with as much facility and with attention as steadily fixed upon _the whole together_ as if it were a small picture immediately under the eye the work justly excites our admiration the difficulty being increased as the extent is enlarged