1592951842000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-38282 1753725820756 1753696807000 1753725816926 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-38282 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38282 aba2ad46-40fe-36bf-afec-0ee13dd39452 8 reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference term-37166 adlib-term-37166 feba6d99-fb75-3d35-b009-236d788146f6 laid paper Support Height mm 213 Width mm 150 Leaf Size Paintings, Drawings and Prints 832/5.f.31 1 accession number 832/5.f.31 38282 priref 38282 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38282 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38282 [i] preceding word crossed through in brown ink; [ii] preceding four words crossed through in brown ink; [iii] preceding word crossed through in brown ink; [iv] preceding two words crossed through in brown ink; [v] preceding five words crossed through in brown ink recto brown ink A mechanical art, is performed by a knowledge / of scientific rules & practice only. / the Arts of Design being liberal, are performed / not only by scientific rules & practice, but they / must originate from Genius or the power of / producing, perfected by the imitation of nature / inasmuch / of[i] therefore as any one attempts to produce works / of design by scientific rules & practice only / insomuch will they be mechanical. / yet the foundations of Art being in Science / it is absolutely necessary for genius to be / assisted by rules, & which they are & how- / far they may be applied to the Arts of / design is the object of the present enquiry / as we have unfortunately lost the writings of the ancient Artists / if it be allowed[ii] these rules should be sought / in the finest of their remaining works, asses[iii] for as the same cause / produces the same effect, so these being found & / demonstrated works of equal excellence may be produced again / to this end the arts of design having attained / to a higher degree of perfection in Greece than in / any[iv] elsewhere, if we trace the steps, by which / they rose to perfection, always comparting the history of their / improvements, with their works of art, we cannot / fail of understanding their[v] must of necessity know [i] preceding word crossed through in brown ink; [ii] preceding two words crossed through in brown ink; [iii] preceding word crossed through in brown ink; [iv] preceding three words crossed through in brown ink; [v] preceding six words crossed through in brown ink; [vi] preceding partial word crossed through in brown ink verso brown ink on what principles they proceeded / whatever assistance the Greeks might have / derived from the Egyptians in the Arts of design / belongs to the Antiquarian rather than the Artist / to enquire because no advantage could be derived / from it to the latter in the practice of his / profession; the Greeks had an[i] a sort of rude Original Art / amongst themselves which seems to have been the / growth of their own country, like the people of / Otaiheite, those of[ii] (see Cooke's Voyages) those of / the Musquato-shore) the the[sic] Antiquarian Month- / -ly repository) those of Mexico (Warburton's Divine legation of Moses) & other Nation's could[iii] whose / connection could be but distantly traced / Pausanias in Boetica, says the Thespians reveren / -ced from the beginning[iv] Cupid, most of the Gods from the beginning / whose most ancient image was a certain rude / stone, the same Author in Achaica says at / Pharis were 30 square stones which were worship- / ped under the names of so many Gods, he adds / formerly in all the country's of Greece rude stones / were worshipped for Gods & thence the worship / of Statues or Images, hence also says the same / Hermes of the Gods; Daedalus 2 Ages before / the war of Troy is said to have given motion / to his figures by releiving the legs from each[v] / Pausanias wi[vi] says there was in Corinth 2d a / a wood figure of Hercules with a naked / body reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-153239 adlib-agent-153239 d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec Murray, Charles Fairfax 1916 1912 1916-12 given draughtsman reference agent-45771 adlib-agent-45771 b9e1e92c-edf1-3a4c-a4eb-f5fbaae070a3 Flaxman, John reference term-106299 adlib-term-106299 3926a617-f986-3db0-a8cd-7d8071aa7a46 brown ink reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook

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