Text: 859.f.4

Materials used in production

Black ink
Graphite

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Page Size Height 139 mm Width 229 mm

Techniques used in production

Handwriting : Recto: graphite and black ink verso: graphite on paper

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: text in brackets indicates it has been crossed through

• Text: (Kind of) the only technical instruction in art not prejudicial / to the recipient (that I can imagine) would be / careful (drawing from the antique under) training by (a 1st rate master) / first rate artists - this might tend to (inculcate) justify / a feeling for form & proportion (all of the following in black ink) in pictures / etc. & an ear for time in music - / setting aside the question of music we may decide / that Careful drawing from the antique / under competent supervision would be / desirable and not harmful(?), but the / effects of partial instruction on a / subordinate branch of art might be / surmised by contrast if one were to try / & imagine what might have been the result on / Lorenzo dei Medici as patron of / Michaelangelo had he been rashly? / trained to copy water-colour sketches / by (second) third-rate english artists - & (?) that / is what happen to the possible english Larenzo
• Location: Recto
• Method of creation: Graphite and black ink

Inscription present: text in brackets indicates it has been crossed through

• Text: The march of modern art towards / realism & idealism: This at / first apparent anomaly - (but) & of / imitation of (?) necessarily low / objects only, & (idealism) imagination / only dealt with the supernatural - as Edgar Poe / asserts, this would be so. but that / such is not the case will be one of the / endeavours of these two lectures to prove. a possible school of painting in england of all the first / european artists. Dalou here already / (through) owing to the proverbially very ill wind not having blown. (who) Tadema also / what if we could have had Rogneau / & M been opposed to each other; all these foreign / painters improve by their contact with / English art (?) suit there be black in colours etc etc . This nouveau is an ideal & / very different aspiration to that of the south / Kensington Commissioners who seem mainly / bent on freighting over here the sweepings of / the foreign studio (on) & giving them sale
• Location: Verso
• Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: 859.f.4
Primary reference Number: 9338
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 20 May 2021 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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