Three essays : On picturesque beauty; On picturesque travel; and On sketching landscape : with a poem, on landscape paintingTo these are now added two essays, giving an account of the principles and mode in which the author executed his own drawings. . ution. Piclurefque: a term expreffive of that peculiar kindof beauty, which is agreeable in a picture. Piclurefque grace: an agreeable form which may begiven even to a clownifh figure. Repofe, or quietnefs applied to a piclure, when thewhole is harmonious; when nothing glareseither in the light, fhade, or colouring. To keep down, take down, or b
Three essays : On picturesque beauty; On picturesque travel; and On sketching landscape : with a poem, on landscape paintingTo these are now added two essays, giving an account of the principles and mode in which the author executed his own drawings. . ution. Piclurefque: a term expreffive of that peculiar kindof beauty, which is agreeable in a picture. Piclurefque grace: an agreeable form which may begiven even to a clownifh figure. Repofe, or quietnefs applied to a piclure, when thewhole is harmonious; when nothing glareseither in the light, fhade, or colouring. To keep down, take down, or bring down, fignifythrowing a degree of fhade upon a glaringlight. A middle tint, is a medium between a ftrong light,arid ftrong fhade: the phrafe is not at all ex-preffive of colour. Catching ( xiii ) Catching lights are flrong lights, which flrike onfome particular parts of an object, the reft ofwhich is in fhadow. Studies are the {ketched ideas of a painter, notwrought into a whole. Freedom is the refult of quick execution. Extremities are the hands and feet. Air, expreffes chiefly the graceful action of thehead ; but often means a graceful attitude. Contrqfl, is the oppofition of one part to another. Needle is the inftrument ufed in CONTENT s. CHAPTER I. 1 he principles of painting confidered, as far as they relate to prints Page i CHAP. II. Obfervations on the different kinds of prints 2 CHAP. III. Characters of the moil noted matters - 43 CHAP. IV. Remarks on particular prints «• 127 CHAP. v. Cautions in collecting prints - 165
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