The Works of Jonathan Richardson: Containing I. The Theory of Painting. ... A New Edition, Corrected, with the Additions of An Essay on the Knowledge of Prints, and Cautions to Collectors. Ornamented with Portraits ...Printed at Strawberry-Hill [i.e. London] Sold by B. White and Son; T. and J. Egerton; J. Debrett; R. Faulder, and W. Miller; [and 3 others in London], 1792 - Engraving - 282 pages |
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... least the best choice of it . We thus have nobler and finer ideas of men , animals , landfcapes , & c . than we should perhaps have ever had . We fee particular accidents and beauties which are rarely , or never feen by us ; and this is ...
... least the best choice of it . We thus have nobler and finer ideas of men , animals , landfcapes , & c . than we should perhaps have ever had . We fee particular accidents and beauties which are rarely , or never feen by us ; and this is ...
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... least to perfuade fuch to do no dishonour to it by a low or vicious behaviour ; if these confequences happen , it will be a fatisfaction to me over and above . But to return , and to come to what is most material . Painting gives us not ...
... least to perfuade fuch to do no dishonour to it by a low or vicious behaviour ; if these confequences happen , it will be a fatisfaction to me over and above . But to return , and to come to what is most material . Painting gives us not ...
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... least equi- valent to that , after he has well conceived the thing over and above what is merely mechanical , and other particulars , which shall be spoken to presently , and that is , the knowledge of the nature and effects of colours ...
... least equi- valent to that , after he has well conceived the thing over and above what is merely mechanical , and other particulars , which shall be spoken to presently , and that is , the knowledge of the nature and effects of colours ...
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... least ) to subjects where it is not always to be found , and muft find , or make variety in much narrower bounds than the hiftory - painter has to range in . Add to all this , that the works of the face - painter must be seen in all the ...
... least ) to subjects where it is not always to be found , and muft find , or make variety in much narrower bounds than the hiftory - painter has to range in . Add to all this , that the works of the face - painter must be seen in all the ...
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... least a Roman Catholic , as Rafaelle was , must be fuppofed to understand it fo ) to commit the care of his church to that apoftle preferably to the reft , upon the fuppofition of his loving him better than any of them : Now , though ...
... least a Roman Catholic , as Rafaelle was , must be fuppofed to understand it fo ) to commit the care of his church to that apoftle preferably to the reft , upon the fuppofition of his loving him better than any of them : Now , though ...
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