Text: 3674/10

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• Text: 9
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: V. VII
• Location: Left-hand margin
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: XVI. XVIII / XXVIII. XXX
• Location: Left-hand margin, bottom
• Method of creation: Brown ink

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• Text: when broken by figures, or tufted wood. - In such a num- / -ber of drawings, there will always be great difference among / them. Tho I am far from pointing out the composition of any / of them as excellent; yet it may be of some use to make a / Distinction. [among them] among the best(underlined) compositions are / I. V. VII. VIII. IX. XII. XVI. XX. XXII. XXIX. XXX. XXXI: and among / the worst(underlined), II. VI. X. XI. XIII. XV. XIX. XXI. XXIII. XXIV. XXV. XXVI. / XXVII. XXVIII. / On Light(underlined and Shade(underlined). / We look next in a landscape, for a proper proportion of / light, & shade. I know no part of painting so little attended to. / Light is too often scattered on a variety of objects; where as / it ought chiefly to rest on one part; wh. gives the idea of uni- / -ty, or of one whole(underlined); which every landscape shd. aim at. Where- / as, when it is scattered, it gives the idea of a multiplicity of / objects. A few inferior lights however, wh. do not interfere / with the grand [light] mass, are allowable, & often useful, by / adding
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Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/10
Primary reference Number: 10715
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Associated departments & institutions

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