TIPTOE PORTRAITS.
TO 3t. LE RED ACTEUR OF THE SPECTATOR.
May 8th, 1833.
SIGNOR—Vill you grant leave to a poor student of St. Luke's, at Rome, to ask to the great Sare MARTIN SHEE, vy he always paint the Marquis of VELLESLEV on his tipe-toe ? and vy the Portrait Painters Inglish, always (except VILKIE) prefer the tipe-toe to the flat foot?
I am very desirous to take all the knowledge I can to any countrie, and I would be much obliged if the President of the English Academy, would instruct me
in the face of the vorld. PIETRO SANTI, Student at Rome. P.S. Perhaps he vont say one word, till he give the medal and the lecture ; and then Ivill come again from Rome, because all the students, Russian, Spanish, French, Swedish, Portuguese, and German, are very anxious to know the Principe.
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