Text: 3674/14

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Graphite

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Support composed of paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 13
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: may be naturally(underlined) strong: but execution is a mechanical / affair; & must be obtained by practice(underlined). - In this point, / the drawings here presented, are deficient. There may be / freedom in them. The trees & other objects, wh. are touched / with a pen, may be touched with facility: but I fear there / will often be wanting that masterly touch, wh. marks the / character of an object. / Of interesting the eye(underlined), & imagination(underlined). / But now, as the chief end of landscape is to please, all these rules may be well observed _ the character(underlined) of the lands- / cape may be just _ the contrasts in disposing(underlined), the several parts / may be pleasing _ the light, & shade(underlined) judicious, and the execution good, yet still the lands - / cape may not be pleasing. In a drama something more / is required to give it success, than the bare observance of / the unities. It ought always therefore to be in the painter's / view
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/14
Primary reference Number: 10719
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Associated departments & institutions

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