Text: 3674/18

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Brown ink
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Support composed of paper

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• Text: 17
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

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• Text: Figures are also useful in characterizing(underlined) a scene. If we / introduce adorned nature(underlined) (which the picturesq eye always re - / visits, when it can) we are under a neccessity, as Sandby was / & other draughtsmen in that line, to introduce such modern fi - / gures, as inhabit those walks. But when we open scenes of / wild(underlined), or even of unadorned(underlined) nature, we dismiss all these court - / ly gentry. No 'ladies with their parasols'(all underlined), no white-robed(underlined) / 'misses ambling two by two'(all underlined) - no children(underlined) drawn about in / 'their little coaches'(all underlined), have admittance here. They would vul - / gari:e(underlined) our scenes. Milk-maids also, poughmen, reapers, and / all peasants 'engaged in their several professions'(all underlined), we dis - / allow. There are modes of landscape, to wh. they are adap- / ted: but in the scenes we here characteri:e, they are valued, / for what in real life they are despised _ loitering idly about, / without [any] employment. In wild, & desert scenes, we are best pleased with banditti _ soldiers, if not in regimentals, and / such
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: see no. 3674/19

• Text: + / Large(underlined) figures are very disagreable. Let them rather be too / small, than too large _ that is, let them rather give consequence / to the landscape, than take consequence to themselves. If they are etc
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Brown ink

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• Text: a / principal part(underlined). His figures may be called 'History in animal / life'(all underlined). _ As for cattle ingeneral, they must submit to the same / rule, as to size(underlined), wh. restricts human figures. But as they are / always in a state of nature, unless engaged in some husband- / ry- occupation (which we do not allow) they are welcome in our landscapes at all times. In our wilder scenes stags, and / forest-deer are particularly useful. We have etc
• Location: Verso, below
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/18
Primary reference Number: 10723
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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