. The complete works . SWfcf. mj 6. Foreground Leafage. VOL. III.] OF FINISH. 121 islied ; as far as you fall short of it, your work is wwfinished ;and as far as you substitute any other thing for it, your workis spoiled. § 17. How far Turner followed it, is not easily shown ; forhis finish is so delicate as to be nearly uncopiable. I have justsaid it was not possible to finish that ash trunk of his, farther,on such a scale.* By using a magnifying-glass, and giving thecame help to the spectator, it might perhaps be possible to addand exhibit a few more details ; but even as it is, I cannot byl
. The complete works . SWfcf. mj 6. Foreground Leafage. VOL. III.] OF FINISH. 121 islied ; as far as you fall short of it, your work is wwfinished ;and as far as you substitute any other thing for it, your workis spoiled. § 17. How far Turner followed it, is not easily shown ; forhis finish is so delicate as to be nearly uncopiable. I have justsaid it was not possible to finish that ash trunk of his, farther,on such a scale.* By using a magnifying-glass, and giving thecame help to the spectator, it might perhaps be possible to addand exhibit a few more details ; but even as it is, I cannot byline engraving express all that there is in that piece of tree-trunk, on the same scale. I have therefore magnified the upperpart of it in fig 4. (Plate 5.),, so that the reader may better seethe beautiful lines of curvature into which even its slightestshades and spots are cast. Every quarter of an inch in Turnersdrawings will bear magnifying in the same way ; much of thefiner work in them can hardly be traced, except by the
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