Text: 3674/17

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 16
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: square brackets contain deleted words; for '+' see no. 3674/16

• Text: to comand the same kind of ideal view. This mode of / picturing things unseen gives painting a new power by thus / pessing the imagination into it's service. / Of Figures. / Figures of every kind, whether human, or animal, are / of great use in landscape. / In the first place, they are [mechen] mechanically useful(underlined). They / break harsh lines _ they point out paths over mountains, or / to castles _ & in drawing with black & white, they are useful / in destinguishing roads from rivers. / Again, they are useful in inlivening(underlined) a scene. Trees, & / lawns, & water are all beautiful: but they are immovea- / ble objects. When figures are introduced, they add life(underlined), and animation(underlined). Cattle, as well as human figures + [Figures]
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/17
Primary reference Number: 10722
Stable URI

Audit data

Associated departments & institutions

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