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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"}]},{"description":[{"value":"see no. 3674\/19"}],"location":"verso","method":"brown ink","transcription":[{"value":"+ \/ 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"}]},{"description":[{"value":"' ' added to show extent of underlined text; see no. 3674\/19"}],"location":"verso, below","method":"brown ink","transcription":[{"value":"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. 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