Text: 3674/2

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Brown ink
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Support composed of paper

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• Text: 1
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: text in square brackets has been deleted

• Text: The word landscape(underlined) sometimes applies to the natural(underlined) / view, & sometimes to the artificial one. It is applyed wholly / to the latter in this little essay, the intention of which is merely / to shew, in what particulars the beauty of landscape con- / sists, [and to point] by pointing out a few rules for critici:ing it. The draw- / ings annexed are, by no means presented as models of / beauty, but only as illustrations of some of the positions, / which are laid down. // On Design. // The first thing we look for in a landscape, is design-(underlined) / that is, we expect to see such objects brought together, as u- / nite in forming the whole into a character.(underlined) Every scene / should have its character(underlined). The grand(underlined), and the rural(underlined) are the
• Location: Below
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/2
Primary reference Number: 10707
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Associated departments & institutions

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