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. . he matter himfelf; and then thefpirit of the impreffion may be ftill preferved^But moft commonly the retouching past is doneby fome bungler, into whofe hands the pJatehas fallen ; and then it is very bad. In a wornplate, at lead what you have is good: you havethe remains of fomething excellent; and if youare verfed in the works of the matter, yo
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. . he matter himfelf; and then thefpirit of the impreffion may be ftill preferved^But moft commonly the retouching past is doneby fome bungler, into whofe hands the pJatehas fallen ; and then it is very bad. In a wornplate, at lead what you have is good: you havethe remains of fomething excellent; and if youare verfed in the works of the matter, your ima^gination may be agreeably exercifed in makingout what is loft. But when the plate has gonethrough the hands of a bungler, who has workedit over with his harfh fcratches, the idea o£the matter is loft; and you have nothing left,but ftrong, unmeaning lines on a faint ground;which is a moft difagreeable contraft. Such, prints, ( *75 ) prints, and many fuch there are, though offeredus under the name of Rembrandt, or Wa-terlo, are of little value. Thofe mafters would not have owned fuch works, Yet, as we are often obliged to take up with fuch im-preffions, as we can get; it is better to chufe afaint impreflion, than a retouched one. THE INDEX. Jippendages, what —J J^t^ 4 Ananias; cartoon of, criticized — 9, 10 Aqua-fortis, its mariner of biting the copper 32 Aldgrave —- — •— 45 Andreani, Andrea — •— 49 Antonio, Mark -— —— 5° Anguftin of Venice —-* —-* 50 Antho?iy, St. temptation of . -— 55 Auflin, St. a motto from him — 72 Alexander; triumph of: by Le Clerc 79 Auden Aerd —-» — —* 80 Augurs, by Goupy —- <—- 118 Alva, duke of: by Rubens — J39 Baffan criticized *— ?— 4, 103 Beautiful gate; cartoon of, criticized 7^7 Baptifin of fohn : by Muller —— 46 Bloemart, Abraham -—• 46, 104, 127 Barrochi, Frederic — — 51 Beggars, Callots — . —— 55 Bartholomew, St. by Spaniolet — 63 Bella, Stephen de la — 64,
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