Coleridge and Washington Allston's The Sisters.

From: Wordsworth Circle | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Paley, Morton D. | Copyright information

On June 23, 1842, Washington Allston wrote to his friend and patron, James McMurtrie: 

 
    The picture you refer to in your letter has been sold several years 
    since. I suppose it is the one which Coleridge named 'The Sisters'-- 
    and which [Thomas] Sully (it being a favorite with him) may have 
    described to you. One head in it--, as to the air and colour, but 
    not character or head-dress--was imitated from the picture by Titian 
    called his Daughter, holdi...

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