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. . ingoffend*. Among trees, little diftln£tion need be made,tinlefs you introduce the pine, or the cyprefs,or fome other lingular form. The oak, theafh, and the elm, which bear a diftant refem-blance to each other may all be characterizedalike. In a fketch, it is enough to mark atree. One diftln&ion indeed is often neceffaryeven in fketches j and t
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. . ingoffend*. Among trees, little diftln£tion need be made,tinlefs you introduce the pine, or the cyprefs,or fome other lingular form. The oak, theafh, and the elm, which bear a diftant refem-blance to each other may all be characterizedalike. In a fketch, it is enough to mark atree. One diftln&ion indeed is often neceffaryeven in fketches j and that is, between full-leaved trees, and thofe of ftraggling compolition we have often occafion for both,and therefore the hand fhould be ufed readilyto execute either. If we have a general ideaof the oak, for in fiance, as a light tree ; andof the beech as a heavy one, it is fufficient. It adds, I think, to the beauty of a fketchto ftain the paper flightly with a reddifh, oryellowiffi tinge; the ufe of which is to givea more pleafmg tint to the ground of thedrawing by taking off the glare of the adds alfo, if it be not too ftrong, a degreeof harmony to the rawnefs of black and white. * See the preceding effay. The 1. ? HHIMmHH8MBHIB m i
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