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)

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flats of Holland, appears doubly beautiful. It is in-
deed magnificent—nothing can surpass the beauty
of the scenery from Schaberch to Oldendorff, or
indeed through the whole of the centre of West-
phalia, where the roads are generally good, the
great chain of the Hartzwald mountains, the
Silvum Hyrcinianum of the Romans, is seen about
twenty miles distant on the right, and hills of a mo-
derate height on the left are every here and there
crowned with an ancient chateau, the whole valley
between this range of mountains presenting the
view of rich cultivated lands. No country presents
a greater variety of fine subjects for the painter—
scenes are to be found every where worthy of the
best efforts of a Claude Lorrain, or Salvator Rosa.
After traversing a wide expanse of country,
which certainly well repays the traveller by its
interesting and beautiful scenery, Mr. Buchanan
arrived at the place where one of those collections
was to be seen, where, like many other of the
German collections, he found the walls of a chateau
covered with acres of canvas and old panels, but
unfortunately most of these pictures ill suiting
the characters of the masters to whom they were
ascribed. In Germany the traveller finds the
galleries of Dresden, of Munich, of Vienna, and of
Hesse Cassel, well worthy of his attention, especi-
ally the two first of these, which will amply satisfy