Text: 3674/11

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• Text: 10
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: XXI. XXII.
• Location: Left-hand margin
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• Text: adding variety, & removing heaviness. - Sometimes no formal / lights are introduced; but shade graduates from the very fore - / ground into remote distance. There are no examples of / this effect in these drawings; but it is often good, where the / mode of landscape points it out. The mode indeed of inlight- / tening [objects] landscape, depends greatly on the disposition of / the objects. The objects of most consequence in a picture, some- / times look better in the light, & sometimes in the shade. - The union(underlined) - / of different(underlined) objects also has a good effect; as where the sky(underlined), / & the land(underlined) unite, [in] as in IV. VII. VIII. IX. X or where water, / & land unite; so as that the line of separation between / them, shd. in some part(underlined) be lost, as in IV. VII. VIII. _ we / must add [also] likewise that gradation(underlined), [both] in which light, and - / shade soften into each other, is a great source of beauty: / It pervades, more, or less, most of these sketches; & should al- / ways be introduced, where a broad mass of light, or shade is / thrown in. It adds variety to both, by mitigating the glare of / the one
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Accession number: 3674/11
Primary reference Number: 10716
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints