Text: 3674/7

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 6
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: IX
• Location: Left-hand margin
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: XXI
• Location: Left-hand margin, below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: a middle-ground, & a distance; tho a good landscape may be / formed without either of the latter. - Nor is there occasion for any formal separation of the parts. They may blend imper- / ceptibly into each other. / The great points to be observed in the composition of / a landscape, are proportion(underlined), simplicity(underlined), & harmony(underlined). / Proportion(underlined) is required in landscape, as in other things. / One part shd. not overbalance another. In a building, if the win- / dows are too large for the front _ or in a human figure, if the / legs are too long, or too short for the body, we are displeased. / But tho landscape is not tyed to such exact proportion, as / figures, & works of art; yet still it Sh. even here be attended to. If one / part overbalance another, in any considerable degree, the / exact eye takes offence. For XXVII, the woody hill on the left, is / out of proportion. Such a hill may exist in nature(underlined); but in / composition(underlined), it shd. have been [higher] lower, that the nearer / hill,
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/7
Primary reference Number: 10712
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Associated departments & institutions

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