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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2056#0010
HOGARTH.
ANECDOTES OF AN ARTIST,
" By heaven, and not a master, taught."
When Leonardo, da Vinci lay upon his
death-bed, Francis the First, actuated by
that instinctive reverencewhichgreatminds
invariably feel for each other, visited him
in his chamber. An attendant informing
the painter that the king was come to in-
quire after his health, he raised himself
from the pillow, a lambent gleam of gra-
titude for the honour lighted up his eyes,
and he made an effort to speak. The ex-
ertion was too much; he fell back; and
Francis stooping to support him, this great
artist expired in his arms. Affected with
the awful catastrophe, the king heaved a
vol. i. a
ANECDOTES OF AN ARTIST,
" By heaven, and not a master, taught."
When Leonardo, da Vinci lay upon his
death-bed, Francis the First, actuated by
that instinctive reverencewhichgreatminds
invariably feel for each other, visited him
in his chamber. An attendant informing
the painter that the king was come to in-
quire after his health, he raised himself
from the pillow, a lambent gleam of gra-
titude for the honour lighted up his eyes,
and he made an effort to speak. The ex-
ertion was too much; he fell back; and
Francis stooping to support him, this great
artist expired in his arms. Affected with
the awful catastrophe, the king heaved a
vol. i. a