TALBOT1476

Dear Henry

Since I wrote last, Colzi ¹ has shewn me another copy of the Ezechiel ² done to imitate the original exactly with an old cracked varnish & a faded look about some of the clouds & mounted in an old frame it is one of the best things I ever saw – he says if you like you may have it instead of the other but I shall take advice & I fear that tho it looks more like an old copy now – it will not be so good ten years hence, at least that is the reason he gives for the fresher colouring of the other – so do all painters & I suppose there is something in it – & these perfect copies are only kept as Mems – Wallis ³ has done the same. I cannot tell yet when or where I go it will be somewhere in the direction of Illyria or Noricum. ⁴

Y^r Aff
W T H F S

Henry Talbot Esq
31 Sackville Street
London