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. . ent of a whole. When I fold my laft drawings, I advertizeda catalogue, and added to it an EfTay upon thePrinciples on which the Drawings were ex-ecuted. But, as the catalogue feemed the prin-cipal thing intended, it took the eye, and theEJfay, which had not been advertized, wasoverlooked: thus three or four hundred copiesof this effay were left
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. . ent of a whole. When I fold my laft drawings, I advertizeda catalogue, and added to it an EfTay upon thePrinciples on which the Drawings were ex-ecuted. But, as the catalogue feemed the prin-cipal thing intended, it took the eye, and theEJfay, which had not been advertized, wasoverlooked: thus three or four hundred copiesof this effay were left upon my hands. Ithought it a pity, therefore, that fo much ofmy time had been taken up in vain, in writingthe EfTay; and fo much lofs mould accrue to my ( i55 ) my endowment for want of its fale. In thefollowing little work, therefore, I have en-deavoured to make the inftru£tion of theEfTay more complete. I have taken awaythe catalogue-part as now ufelefs, and haveadded another little effay, which feems to bea proper appendage to the firft. In the firftEfTay, printed with the catalogue, an accountis given of the principles on which the draw-ings offered in fale were made. In this addi-tional eflay, the mode of executing them isexplained. ESSAY. ESSAY II. ON THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THE AUTHORS SKETCHESARE COMPOSED. ——— Contented with a humble theme, He pours the ftream of imitation down The vale of nature, where it creeps and winds Among her wild and lovely works.
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