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. . ngenious refearches of Mr, Wal-pole. He did not however choofeto fwell his volume with what othershad faid; but wifhed rather to refton fuch obfervations, as he hadhimfelf made. He had many op-portunities of feeing fome of thebelt, collections of prints in Eng-land ; and occasionally availed him-felf of them by minuting down re-marks. Of the wor
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. . ngenious refearches of Mr, Wal-pole. He did not however choofeto fwell his volume with what othershad faid; but wifhed rather to refton fuch obfervations, as he hadhimfelf made. He had many op-portunities of feeing fome of thebelt, collections of prints in Eng-land ; and occasionally availed him-felf of them by minuting down re-marks. Of the works of living artifts theauthor hath purpofely faid little. He ( a ) He thought himfelf not at libertyto find fault ; and when he men-tions a modern print, he means not,by praiiing one, to imply inferiorityin another ; but merely to illuftratehis fubje£t, when he had occafion,v/ith fuch prints, as occurred to hismemory. The author wifhes to add, thatwhen he fpeaks pojitively in any partof the following work, he means notto fpeak arbitrarily : but only toavoid the tedious repetition of quali-fying phrafes. N. B. When the figures on the right hand arefpoken of, thofe are meant, which areoppofite to the fpe&ators right hand:and fo of the EXPLANATION OF TERMS (composition, in its large fenfe means, a picture ingeneral: in its limited one, the art of group-ing figures, and combining the parts of apicture. In this latter fenfe it is fynonymouswith difpofition. De/ign, in its ftri£t fenfe, applied chiefly to draw-ing : in its more inlarged one, defined page its moft inlarged one, fometimes taken fora pi&ure in general. A whole: The idea of one object, which a picturemould give in its comprehenfive view. Exprejfion: its ftrict meaning defined page 16: butit often means the force, by which objects ofany kind are reprefented. ( xii ) Effecl arifes chiefly from the management of light;but the word is fometimes applied to the ge-neral view of a picture. Spirit, in its fbri£t
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