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(No. XXIV.*) A View of Gibraltar during tU
aejlruSfion of the Spanijh Floating Batteries, on the ijfcj
of September, 1782.
<<r It may be proper to inform the fpectator, that
the painter's original plan was to execute two pictures,
as companions to each other, on this event fo glori-
ous to our country. In the firft (which is now exhi-
bited) he has endeavoured to reprefent an extenfive
view of the fcenery combined with the action. In
the fecond (which he hopes to finifh hereafter) he
propofes to make the action his principal object, and
delineate the particulars of it more diftinctly."
Our Artift-friends at a diftance, will be pleafed to
be informed fomewhat of this gentleman's manual
management. When Mr. W. was at Rome, the
painters of that place wondered at his pictures, and
among other things enquired how he fo exactly imi-
tated the mortar &c. on old walls ? " It is beyond
the power of our pencils" True ; Mr. W. ufes an old
pallette-knife perfectly pliable, and troivels on his
colour. He produces the lights on the wave, not by
painting them as lights, but by glazing a ground of
colour proper for thole lights, with a coat of colour
proper for the unenlightened parts; then while wet,
drawing, as it were, with the utmoft freedom by
means of a pencil-flick, the lights upon the (hades.
An ingenious method, in the application of which he,
is very dextrous.
l.j. 11——MM HmiW—11 1
(No. XXIV.*) A View of Gibraltar during tU
aejlruSfion of the Spanijh Floating Batteries, on the ijfcj
of September, 1782.
<<r It may be proper to inform the fpectator, that
the painter's original plan was to execute two pictures,
as companions to each other, on this event fo glori-
ous to our country. In the firft (which is now exhi-
bited) he has endeavoured to reprefent an extenfive
view of the fcenery combined with the action. In
the fecond (which he hopes to finifh hereafter) he
propofes to make the action his principal object, and
delineate the particulars of it more diftinctly."
Our Artift-friends at a diftance, will be pleafed to
be informed fomewhat of this gentleman's manual
management. When Mr. W. was at Rome, the
painters of that place wondered at his pictures, and
among other things enquired how he fo exactly imi-
tated the mortar &c. on old walls ? " It is beyond
the power of our pencils" True ; Mr. W. ufes an old
pallette-knife perfectly pliable, and troivels on his
colour. He produces the lights on the wave, not by
painting them as lights, but by glazing a ground of
colour proper for thole lights, with a coat of colour
proper for the unenlightened parts; then while wet,
drawing, as it were, with the utmoft freedom by
means of a pencil-flick, the lights upon the (hades.
An ingenious method, in the application of which he,
is very dextrous.
l.j. 11——MM HmiW—11 1