Treatise on the knowledge necessary to amateurs in pictures, tr. and abridged by R. WhiteLongman & Company, 1845 - 338 pages |
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... kind of practical information which amateurs must acquire , either through some such aid , or through the more tedious path of their own individual ex- perience , and at the same time affords to persons of more matured taste such an ...
... kind of practical information which amateurs must acquire , either through some such aid , or through the more tedious path of their own individual ex- perience , and at the same time affords to persons of more matured taste such an ...
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... kind which I have not read ; but all have left me in the same ignorance I was in before ; besides , the object of my work is so different from that of all previous writers , that even if inclined I could scarcely derive benefit from ...
... kind which I have not read ; but all have left me in the same ignorance I was in before ; besides , the object of my work is so different from that of all previous writers , that even if inclined I could scarcely derive benefit from ...
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... kind it be , were it executed with the greatest perfection , will ever pass for being of a " good choice , " if by the unskil- fulness of the painter it be placed upon a ground of one single monotonous tint , whether white , black , red ...
... kind it be , were it executed with the greatest perfection , will ever pass for being of a " good choice , " if by the unskil- fulness of the painter it be placed upon a ground of one single monotonous tint , whether white , black , red ...
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... kind which he may servilely imitate . He cannot , like them , in- voke the aid of the rule and the compass . Every stroke of his pencil must come from his head . All with him becomes creation in the execution . He cannot efface his ...
... kind which he may servilely imitate . He cannot , like them , in- voke the aid of the rule and the compass . Every stroke of his pencil must come from his head . All with him becomes creation in the execution . He cannot efface his ...
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... kind is indispensable to all painters , especially to those who are engaged with landscape , who by this means may be able to achieve such a degree of illusion , as that the moment of the day that is represented may be determined from ...
... kind is indispensable to all painters , especially to those who are engaged with landscape , who by this means may be able to achieve such a degree of illusion , as that the moment of the day that is represented may be determined from ...
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