Text: 3674/6

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Graphite

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Support composed of paper

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• Text: 5
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: you must(underlined) alter them a little. - But perhaps no exact point(underlined) / of view(underlined) is required. The object(underlined) only is wanted; & you may take / it from what stand you please. You are then at liberty to / go round it; & may hit upon some tolerable view. I have / seen a view even of Stonehenge, taken in a point, where / indeed I could never find it, which gave something like a / picturesq shape to that most formal of all objects(underlined). In ta- / king a Natural view of a country(underlined), there is more difficulty, than / the portrait of a single object(underlined). You may however here, plant, / or cut down trees, & make such other alterations, as time may well be supposed to make. On the foreground you must take / liberty. - But even in fictitious subjects, where the painter / may form his own composition, no greater task lies upon / him, than to bring the several parts of his picture into an agreable / whole(underlined). / A landscape consists comonly of three parts _ a foreground, / a middle
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/6
Primary reference Number: 10711
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Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints