Text: 3674/8

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Brown ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

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• Text: 7
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: I
• Location: Left-hand margin
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: square brackets contain deleted words

• Text: hill, which is crowned with a castle. Indeed sometimes it may / be proper wittinly to transgress the rules of proportion. In III / it is intended to give dignity to a mountain: of course the / other parts of the landscape are made subservient to that idea. / Simplicity(underlined) arises from the fewness of parts(underlined). The foreground may / be frittered, or broken too much _ so may the middle ground; & likewise / the distance. On the other hand, as variety(underlined), wh. is also called richness(underlined), / consists in a multiplicity of parts(underlined), it also shd. be attended to: for / [simp] beauty results from a just union of simplicity(underlined), & variety(underlined). The / great difficulty therefore lies in uniting ingredients of so opposite a / nature. In many of these drawings, they are better united, than in / others. The first may be a kind of example. The foreground is ra- / -ther frittered. I was going to simplify it: but I thought it better to remain in its exemplary state. The distant hill partakes tole- / rably well of simplicity(underlined) & variety(underlined). / Harmony(unerlined) in composition arives chiefly from preserving / a contrast among the several parts of landscape. This is, in a / perculiar
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/8
Primary reference Number: 10713
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Associated departments & institutions

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