Text: 3674/16

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Graphite

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Support composed of paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 15
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: square brackets contain deleted words

• Text: -ful appendages connected with it, tho concealed from our / view. If therefore we can interest the imagination of the spec- / -tator, so as to create in him an idea of some beautiful / scenery beyond such a hill, [&] or such a promontory, which / intercepts the view, we give a scope to a very pleasing de - / ception. It is like the landscape of a dream. The mind na - / turally runs on with an idea, wh. had long possessed it. When / slumber shuts the senses, after seeing a fine view, the idea often / continues _ somewhat faded indeed, but strong enough to / preserve a very amusing picture. Thus in number V, the men / sitting on the a rock may be supposed to see the continutaion of / a landscape, down the valley, which winds round them on / the right: and this gives a sort of clue to the imagination. / The windows of a castle on a hill, or any elevated stand, / which looks down a lake, or a river, may be supposed also / to comand
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: intended to be inserted at the point marked '+' in the text of no. 3674/17

• Text: + have their use in inlivening(underlined) a scene:- only let them be / masterly touched _ let them not obtrude upon the eye; & let not / the ground be overstocked
• Location: Verso, bottom
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: Figures page 17
• Location: Verso, bottom right
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/16
Primary reference Number: 10721
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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