Smith, John: A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters: in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference the the galleries and private collections in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools (Part 5) (London: Smith and Son, 1834)

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conversing with another, while a third is busy with two cart
horses. In the centre of the fore-ground is a woman with
a pail, and another occupied milking; and on the brink of a
pit above, is a peasant girl in conversation with a man.
3 ft. 4 in. by 3 ft. 3 in.-—C.
Collection of B. West, Esq. P.R. A. 1820. (bought in) 450 gs.
189- A View taken from the summit of a Mountain, looking
over an extensive valley, through which winds the Lake of
Celano, towards the Apennines, whose lofty sides are obscured
by clouds. The vast expanse of country presented to the eye
is finely diversified by rivers, woods, and buildings, exhibited
under the appearance of a misty morning. A number of
peasants, with a herd of cattle, are approaching the summit of
a hill in front; among these, and nearest to the spectator, is a
man in a sheep-skin jacket, accompanied by a woman mounted
on an ass.
1 ft. 4| in. by 2 st. 1 in.—C.
This very excellent and classical picture was formerly in the choice
collection of Joseph Barchard, Esq., and was subsequently sold in
the collection of John Webb, Esq., in 1829, for the sum of 92 gs.
Now in the collection of the Right Honourable Lord Northwick.

190. The Subterraneous Pass. The view represents a
rocky cavern, with a road under a natural arch to the distant
country. In this retreat is a traveller’s restorato, the land-
lady of which stands by the side of a traveller, who is mounted
on a mule with his back to the spectator, drinking a glass of
liquor: an ox and two goats are near them, also an ass and two
sheep; and considerably within the cave are seen three travel-
lers at a table regaling; at the extremity of the passage is a
herdsman driving a cow, a goat, and a sheep. Engraved by
Dankerts.
1 ft. 1| in. by 1 st. 6| in.—P.
Collection of M. de St. Victor, Paris, 1822. . 3810/s. 152Z.
«——- M. Verbrugge, Hague, 1881. . 765jlo. 721.