Text: 3674/13

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 12
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: square brackets contain deleted words

• Text: expressed. Thus in painting: Design(underlined), composition(underlined), & light(underlined), / however necessary in landscape, will be very deficient, without execution(underlined). / The [life] beauty of execution consists in freedom(underlined). But if freedom be / not accompanied with correctness, or precision(underlined), the effect / is lost. The stroke of the black-lead pencil _ of the pen _ or of the brush, must have meaning(underlined); or, like a sentiment am- / biguously expressed, it only confounds. Happy is that ar- / tist, whose execution follows up his ideas; & can rea- / -dily give life to his conceptions. Hogarth used to say, / that every man might 'execute, if he could conceive'(all underlined). / But I much doubt the truth of the aphorism. Many a man, / I shd. suppose, may excite brilliant ideas in the Camera ob-(underlined) / scura(underlined) of his own mind, wh. are beyond his power to ex- / -press. Internal painting is the work of imagination, which / may be
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/13
Primary reference Number: 10718
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Associated departments & institutions

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