Note 21 — Chapter IV · YORKSHIRE AND THE YOUNG ACADEMICIAN. 1797 TO 1807.

In a letter from Andrew Caldwell to Bishop Percy, dated 14th June, 1802, printed by Nicholls in his “Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century,” vol. viii. p. 43, Turner is spoken of as beating “Loutherbourg and every other artist all to nothing.” “A painter of my acquaintance, and a good judge, declares his pencil is magic; that it is worth every landscape-painter’s while to make a pilgrimage to see and study his works. Loutherbourg, he used to think of so highly, appears now mediocre.”