. The complete works . ed with consists, not in its greater delicacy, but in the addition of atruth (shadow), a removal, in a great degree, of a conventional-ism (outline). All true finish consists in one or other of thesethings. Now, therefore, if we are to finish farther we mustknow more or see more about the tree. And as the plurality ofpersons who draw trees know nothing of them, and will notlook at them, it results necessarily that the effort to finish isnot only vain, but unfinishes—does mischief. In the lower partof the plate, figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6. are fac-similes of pieces of li
. The complete works . ed with consists, not in its greater delicacy, but in the addition of atruth (shadow), a removal, in a great degree, of a conventional-ism (outline). All true finish consists in one or other of thesethings. Now, therefore, if we are to finish farther we mustknow more or see more about the tree. And as the plurality ofpersons who draw trees know nothing of them, and will notlook at them, it results necessarily that the effort to finish isnot only vain, but unfinishes—does mischief. In the lower partof the plate, figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6. are fac-similes of pieces of lineengraving, meant to represent trunks of trees ; 3. and 4. arethe commonly accredited types of tree-drawing among engraversin the eighteenth century ; 5. and 6. are quite modern ; 3. isfrom a large and important plate by Boydell, from ClaudesMolten Calf, dated 1781 ; 4. by Boydell in 1776, from RubenssWaggoner ; 5. from a bombastic engraving, published abouttwenty years ago by Meulemeester of Brussels, from Raphaels. 2. Drawinsr of Tree-Stems. vol. in.] OP FIHISH. 115 Moses at the Burning Bush ; and 6. from the foreground ofMillers Modern Italy, after Turner.* All these represent, as far as the engraving goes, simplyunfiling. They are not finished in any sense but this,—thatthe paper has been covered with lines. 4. is the best, because,in the original work of Eubens, the lines of the boughs, andtheir manner of insertion in the trunk, have been so stronglymarked, that no engraving could quite efface them ; and, inas-much as it represents these facts in the boughs, that piece ofengraving is more finished than the other examples, while itsown networked texture is still false and absurd ; for there is notexture of this knitted-stocking-like description on boughs ;and if there were, it would not be seen in the shadow, but inthe light. Millers is spirited, and looks lustrous, but has noresemblance to the original bough of Turners, which is pale,and does not glitter. The Netherla
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