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. . s that admired one of Caecilia Metella, the daughter of Metel-lus, and the wife of Crafius ; in which, with fomuch elegant, and tender fimplicity, her nameis divided between her father, and her hulband. One facing p. 79. This print exemplifies a Jimplemode of tinting a drawing, as explained in thetext. The colouring of this print (which isdone 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. . s that admired one of Caecilia Metella, the daughter of Metel-lus, and the wife of Crafius ; in which, with fomuch elegant, and tender fimplicity, her nameis divided between her father, and her hulband. One facing p. 79. This print exemplifies a Jimplemode of tinting a drawing, as explained in thetext. The colouring of this print (which isdone by hand) has added a little to the expenceof the book: but it was thought neceflary tocompleat the fcheme. — It was coloured by arelation of mine; Mr. Gilpin, drawing-mafter atPaddington-green; who in all the copies I havefeen, has illuftrated my ideas very fatisfa&orily;and who, as far as the recommendation of apartial kinfman may go, deferves mine. One facing p. 85. This print is an explanation of afew rules in perfpeclive; juft fufficient for theufe of common landfcape. *#* Four Prints belonging to the Two AdditionalEssays are Efficiently explained in the pages facingwhich they are refpecHvely placed. ES- ESSAY I. ON PICTURESQUE £ S S A Y I. .Disputes about beauty might perhaps beinvolved in lefs confufion, if a diftinclionwere eftablifhed, which certainly exifts, be-tween fuch objects as are beautiful, and fuchas are piBurefque — between thofe, which pleafethe eye in their natural ft ate j and thofe, whichpleafe from fome quality, capable of beingilluftrated iy painting. Ideas of beauty vary with objects, and withthe eye of the fpectator. The ftone-mafonfees beauties in a well-jointed wall, which efcapethe architeft, Who furveys the building under adifferent idea. And thus the painter, whocompares 4ws object with the rules of hisart, fees it in a different light from the manof general tafte, who furveys it only as fimplybeautiful. £ 2 As ( 4 > As this diffe
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