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. . BHmK. ( 77 ) I may farther add, that the production ofan effeffi is particularly neceflary in paintings colour in fome degree makes upthe deficiency: but in fimple clair-obfcurethere is no fuccedaneum. Its force dependson effect; the virtue of which is fuch, thatit will give a value even to a barren ftriking the chords of
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. . BHmK. ( 77 ) I may farther add, that the production ofan effeffi is particularly neceflary in paintings colour in fome degree makes upthe deficiency: but in fimple clair-obfcurethere is no fuccedaneum. Its force dependson effect; the virtue of which is fuch, thatit will give a value even to a barren ftriking the chords of a mufical inftru-ment, it will produce harmony, without anyrichnefs of compofition. It is farther to be obferved, that whenobjects are in Jhadow, the light, (as it is thena reflected one,) falls on the oppofite fide tothat, on which it falls, when they are in^lightened. In adorning your Jketch, a figure, or twomay be introduced with propriety. By figuresI mean moving objects, as waggons, andboats, as well as cattle, and men. But theymould be introduced fparingly. In profufionthey are affected. Their chief ufe is, to marka road — to break a piece of foreground — topoint out the horizon in a fea-view—or tocarry off the diflance of retiring wat
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