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It is difficult in an engraving to give the effect of pictures, whose principal merit consists in the beauty and truth of their colouring; but this one, from the vast extent it embraces, imparts to the imagination the most agreeable ideas. Near the borders of a calm sea, apparently in the vicinity of Naples, is seated a female who seems to startle at hearing some one approaching, whom she was impatiently expecting.

This picture was painted in 1658 for Francis Aberici; it has since been in the collections of Furnow, Humphrey and Morrès; in the last of which it was, when engraved by Vivarès, in 1742. The etching we now present is reversed from the original picture.

Width, 3 feet 8 inches; height, 4 feet 5 inches.