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 6) (London: Smith and Son, 1835)

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among stones, and thence falls in a cascade on the fore-ground,
forming, by its white froth, a fine contrast to the surrounding
objects.
2 st. 2 in. by 2 st. 8 in.—C.
Collection of M. Goll de Frankenstein, 1833. . 1980fo. 1781.

251. A Cart drawn by two Horses, passing a ford. The
view represents a ssooded country, with an old oak and other
trees on the right, around which ssows a considerable expanse
of water, through which a cart, containing two men, and
drawn by two horses, is passing, followed by a dog. On the
opposite side are three oxen entering the stream, beyond which
is a road bounded by a wood. Engraved in aquatinta by
Horfingar, and described from the print.

252. A Herdsman and a Woman in conversation. The
view represents a woody and sequestered scene, with a rivulet
on the left, falling in a gentle cascade, ssowing along the whole
of the front, and bounded on the right by a broken clayey
bank, beyond which the ground gradually rises, and forms a
verdant pasture, terminating in a thick wood, among the trees
of which may be noticed an old oak. The figures which
animate the scene are by the pencil of Vander Leeuw, and
consist of a woman seated, with her back to the spectator, on
the trunk of a tree, conversing with a herdsman who stands
by, leaning on a staff. Two sheep are browsing near them,
and a third is in the stream. This is a superlative production
of art.
1st. 8 in. by 1st. 11| in.—C.
Now in the collection of Lord Coventry.

253. A View on the Brill River, represented under the
aspect of a breeze, and an approaching storm. The nearest
object which meets the eye is a boat with three men in it,
beyond which is a fishing smack, and at a considerable dis-
tance off, on the left of the picture, may be perceived a jetty,