Text: 3674/9

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Brown ink
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• Text: 8
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: peculiar manner, more the province of taste, than or rule. The / eye must arbitrate. Give the same materials to twenty artists, / & you will find twenty mordes of putting them together: but he, / who has the most taste, will put them together with the most har- / mony. - Some pains have been taken on this head, with the drawings annexed to these rules. Most of them have been studied in different ways whil in their black-lead state, to / bring their parts into harmonious composition. The XIIIth, and / XIVth drawings are examples. The contrast among the parts in / the former did not please. It was amended in the latter: and / might still be amended farther by raising the foreground on the / left, a little higher than the foreground on the right, wh. is some- / what removed from it in distance. A very little alteration / often makes a great difference in the harmony of the lines. I / shall only add on the subject of composition, that harsh lines / shd. always be avoided; such as are seen on the foreground / of the XIth sketch. The edges of ground have a much better effect, / when
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

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Accession number: 3674/9
Primary reference Number: 10714
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Associated departments & institutions

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