...the hopes I had fixed on that picture for so many years; and familiar as I was with the copies, it is really that event in my life that I imagined it to be . . . . The Sistine Madonna, [the] Venus of Milo —they really fulfil the ideal like cathedrals. After the traveller's return he wrote:— The sojourner in a foreign country, while away from the safeguards of home has a peculiar ...