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heading in green ink: - Criticisms -

Romney's earliest picture of Emma was the Lady Hamilton as "Nature," an attraction in coloured reproductions of varying merit, of London print shops. She is seated before a formal but charming landscape background, holding a dog, almost too large for a pet, in her arms. The red dress is cut low, her bright hair is bound with a double greece fillet. She is the personification of youth and gaiety, but let the eighteenth century poet who sang her praises as "Nature," speak: "Flushed by the spirit of the genial year, Her lips blush deeper sweets, the breath of youth; The shining moisture swells into her eyes In brighter glow, her wishing bosom heaves With Palpitations wild." in green ink: Ŧ

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