Buchanan, William: Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution (Band 2) (London: Ackermann, 1824)

10 MR. DAY’S COLLECTION.
the fine drawing, the suavity of colouring of the
figures, and the sublimity of sentiment in the
principal characters, render it one of the leading
works of the Bolognese school.
This collection, which succeeded that of the
Orleans Italian pictures, may be considered as the
avant-courier to the many capital works which
were afterwards imported from Italy, and to the
importation of which the author of these sketches
may say, “ Et quorum ego magna parsfui.”