Text: 3674/3

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 2
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: two prevailing characters of landscape. Sublimity(underlined) marks / the one - amenity(underlined), the other. /We seldom however find either of these characters perfect- / ly pure. They are generally intermixed: for little beauty re- / sults from sublimity alone: & yet the rural, without a little of / the sublime, would be low, & vulgar. The mixture therefore of / these two characters forms a third species; wh. is the charac- / ter of most of the following drawings: & indeed it is the cha- / racter of most of the best landscapes we have. We always / wish for so much sublimity(underlined), as to banish every thing low, and / trivial; & for so much amenity(underlined), as to soften the sublime. In / this mixed mode of landscape, we hardly admit the cottage. In / its room we rather expect the castle. The brook may mur- / mur over pebbles; yet we are better pleased, when it spreads / into a river: but as to the appendages of husbandry, and / every
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: the last three words underlined; square brackets denote deleted word

• Text: + There can be no grandeur in such little portions of rock, as / are [here] introduced in these two scenes. They may serve however, in some degree, / to explain my 'principle of grandeur.'
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/3
Primary reference Number: 10708
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Associated departments & institutions

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