Clerk in turn wrote a 'Roundlet in Mr Ramsay's own way', inscribed on the back of the portrait of Ramsay which hung in Penicuik House, where the verse is dated 5 May 1723.
What is the point of including an illustration of Francesco Botticini's Assumption of the Virgin (London, National Gallery) when the figure discussed in such detail ("his scarlet rolled hood, suspended by its liripipe, hangs over his shoulder; its gorget [foggia] hangs from the circular roundlet resting on his back") is seven sixteenths of an inch tall, and blurry at that?
They can be a tad rubbery, but the chef had an ace up his sleeve here - he'd carefully rested them on roundlets of chorizo sausage and then treated it all to a mustard vinaigrette dressing.
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