On farm land, a young man and young woman turn away from each other in a lovers' quarrel. Engraving by R. Wallis after J.C. Hook.

A letter lies abandoned on the ground while a young man hides his face in despair and a young woman sits nearby. "In the collection of D. Price Esq., Regent's Park.The 'Passing cloud' was exhibited at the Academy the year before the picture just mentioned. The title, it is evident, has no reference to a cloud overshadowing the landscape, which is bright as a summer's day can make it, but to one which has come across the path of the two young rustic lovers, who have had a slight quarrel, and have turned away from each other, the youth hiding his face on a high green bank, and the girl sitting mute at its base, and idly pulling to pieces the flowers in her lap. Her countenance is not indicative of much trouble; she is undoubtedly coquetting with her swain, and, feeling she has him firmly in her grasp, quietly waits her time for the cloud above them to pass away. There is considerable awkwardness in the arrangement of a portion, and that the most prominent, of the composition. The outer line of the bank runs in the same direction as the cottage, of which it seems almost a continuation, so that at a first glance the boy appears to be resting on the latter. But the subject is worked out with extreme care and minuteness of detail, especially in the whole of the landscape."--The art journal, loc. cit. The collector David Price was a wool-merchant