824. A RUINED CASTLE.

_Cuyp_ (Dutch: 1620-1691). _See 53._

The castle may be the same as that seen in No. 1289. Some lines from

Beattie's "Scotland" have been applied to it:--

Behold our lakes ...

Each girdled with its mountain belt

Of rock and tower and forest trees,

And gemmed with island sanctuaries

Like floating palaces, they seem

The elysium of a poet's dream.

This picture was originally bought at Horn, in the Netherlands, of an

old clothesman, for 1s. 3d. Sir Robert Peel paid 350 guineas for it.

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