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"Summer Time - Crossing the Ford" - painted by T. J. Soper - from the Exhibition of the National Institution, 1856. Engraving of '...a charming landscape, after the real English school; cool and umbrageous; the sky certainly more after the fashion of the present bleak spring-time than of roseate summer; but the rippling brook which meanders through the midst of the landscape, and the deep shade which pervades each leafy recess, are in strict keeping with it, and true to Nature in her soberer aspects. The market waggon in front, with its rustic burden, and the dog trotting on before, invest the composition with life and gaiety'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.