The execution of my Designs, being all in Water-colours, (that is in Fresco) are regularly refused to be exhibited by the Royal Academy, and the British Institution has, this year, followed its example, and has effectually excluded me by this Resolution.

I therefore invite those Noblemen and Gentlemen, who are its Subscribers, to inspect what they have excluded; and those who have been told that my Works are but an unscientific and irregular Eccentricity, a Madman's Scrawls, I demand of them to do me the justice to examine before they decide.

There is not, because there cannot be, any difference between the finest Poetry and the finest Painting, for they are both Articulations of the Imagination.

Shall Painting be confined to the sordid drudgery of fac-simile representations of merely mortal and perishing substances, and not be as poetry and music are, elevated to its own proper sphere of invention and visionary conception?

No, it shall not be so! Painting, as well as poetry and music, exists and exalts in immortal thoughts.