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 (Band 9): Supplement (London: Smith and Son, 1842)

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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE WORKS OF
JACOB RUYSDAEL.

1. A Waterfall near a Forest. This very capital picture
exhibits a scene of unusual richness and beauty. The left
and front is composed of rocky ground, intermixed with
bushes and wild herbage, amidst which rises the bole of a
silver birch; from hence the eye looks to a grove of oak and
other trees, covering some rising ground, which occupies one
half the scene ; an unfrequented road leads through the
wood, on which are a man and a boy, standing in conversa-
tion with a woman, who is seated with a child in her arms.
The opposite side presents, about the middle distance, a
tranquil stream, gliding smoothly along some banks clothed
with trees and bushes ; and, approaching the front, falls in a
wide cascade, divided in the middle by a rock, and, rushing
in foaming masses on the foreground, rolls along in boiling
eddies, carrying in its course a trunk of a tree. The land-
scape opens beyond the stream, and a cornfield in sheaves
is perceived, beyond which are the indications of a village, a
church, and two windmills. The only persons visible on this
side, are a man and a woman, who are passing through a
shallow part of the stream with a few sheep. The general
effect indicates the evening of a fine day, accompanied by an
approaching change of weather; masses of rolling clouds