Text: 3674/20

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Inscription or legends present

• Text: 18
• Location: Top centre
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: square brackets contain deleted words

• Text: of enjoying a scene, wh. we conceive them to possess. We / shd. wish to occupy their situation. But as this use of / figures hath already been hinted at, we shall say the / less of it at present. _ But even when a figure cannot be supposed to be placed in a situation proper for view- / -ing a scene, yet considering it as a person travelling through a country, we may go along with him, & con - / ceive the view he will have, when he arrives at such / a point, or in such a direction. / With regard to the figure itself, tho we do not re - / quire thick anatomy; yet we require all the propor- / tions marked at least so justly that nothing glaringly / absurd may appear. / As to the figures introduced in these drawings, es- / - pecially the human figures, they are(underlined) nothing, & claim(underlined) / nothing,
• Location: Below the above
• Method of creation: Brown ink

• Text: See page / 19
• Location: Left margin
• Method of creation: Brown ink

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3674/20
Primary reference Number: 10725
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Associated departments & institutions

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