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To. , 6th July 1803.

,—I send you the "Riposo," which I hope you will think my best picture, in many respects. It represents the Holy Family in Egypt, guarded in their repose from those fiends the Egyptian gods. And though not directly taken from a poem of Milton's (for till I had designed it Milton's poem did not come into my thoughts), yet it is very similar to his "Hymn on the Nativity," which you will find among his smaller poems, and will read with great delight. I have given, in the