Note 56 — Chapter IV · ToC

Leighton, Sir Richard Burton, Algernon Swinburne, and Adelaide Sartoris passed some weeks together at Vichy in September 1869. Swinburne wrote in 1875: "We all owe so much to Leighton for the selection and intention of his subjects—always noble, always beautiful—and these are always worthy of a great and grave art."—"Essays and Studies," A.C. Swinburne.