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. . ( i83 ) tafte. A few landfcape-groups are here fpeci-fied, which may affift the young artift incombining his figures*. With regard to his own drawings^ theauthor hath only to obferve farther, that theywill appear to moft advantage, if they areexamined by candle-light -, or, if in day-light,by intercepting a flrong light. This modeof viewing them
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. . ( i83 ) tafte. A few landfcape-groups are here fpeci-fied, which may affift the young artift incombining his figures*. With regard to his own drawings^ theauthor hath only to obferve farther, that theywill appear to moft advantage, if they areexamined by candle-light -, or, if in day-light,by intercepting a flrong light. This modeof viewing them will beft fhew the effeSi, inwhich chiefly confifts the little merit theyhave; and will likewife conceal the faultinefsof the execution in the feveral details. Suchof thefe drawings however as are tinted, can-not be examined by candle-light. * See plate 3. THfi END. Strahan and Pcerton,Printers-Street, London. A Catalogue ofMr, Gilpins Picturesque Works, fold byMelTrs. Cadell and Davies in the Strand. OBSERVATIONS on the River Wye, and feveral Parts ofSouth Wales, &c. relative chiefly to pi&urefque Beauty, made inthe Summer of the year 1770. Illuftrated with Plates. FifthEdition. 17s. in boards. *** Another Edition, elegantly printed i
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