Text: 3674/19

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 18
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: square brackets contain deleted words; ' ' added to show extent of underlined text; for '+' and 'a(*)' see no. 3674/18

• Text: such figures, as coalesse in idea with the scenes in wh. we / place them. _ But whatever figures are introduced, let them / be introduced without any affectation, or flutter to catch the / eye, & take it from the landscape. + If they are so conspicuous, as to / obtrude upon the eye, they are introduced as improperly, as / landscape(underlined) would be in a history-piece(underlined), when it interferes / with the figures. I speak not however of such landscape, as / Berghem's, in wh. figures make the principal a(*) [part _ Cattle are / always in a state of nature, & are welcome into our wildest land - / scapes at all times _ only let them be masterly tourhced & let them / not obtrude upon the eye; & let not the ground be overstocked / in our wildest scenes [where] Stags, & forest-deer are particularly] useful. We have few scenes however, in wh. horses, asses, / cows, sheep, or goats, may not appear with advantage. / The last use we ascribe to figures, is to give a play to the imagination(underlined), by their [by] communicating to us the same idea / of
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/19
Primary reference Number: 10724
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Associated departments & institutions

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