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stridt attention to nature, and an intimate ac-
quaintance with natural causes and principles,
are indispensihle to that Artist who wishes to
excel in the study of Landscape.
I mull not close this Lefture without some-
what elucidating the principles of Views 5
which, I need not remark, may contain not only
the particulars just treated of, but also claim a
certain fidelity and resemblance, without which
they ill deserve their appellation. But this
fidelity does not always bind the Artist to a
minute punctuality of likeness: we do not ex-
pect in his trees that every branch should be
precisely a portrait, though we will not allow
him to change the kind of tree, or to substitute
an oak for a holly: nor do we expect that his
buildings should be equally minute as an
architect ought to shew them, or that they
should afford geometrical measurement; but
it is, nevertheless, forbidden him to place win-
dows where there are none, or to vary the
heights of stories by a departure from truth.
What licences a view requires, must be in-
troduced with discretion; a very remarkable
object must not be omitted, because the trees
around conceal it, if it be of a nature that per-
mits a little elevation, or if the trees may be a
little thinned, or opened in that place. A
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stridt attention to nature, and an intimate ac-
quaintance with natural causes and principles,
are indispensihle to that Artist who wishes to
excel in the study of Landscape.
I mull not close this Lefture without some-
what elucidating the principles of Views 5
which, I need not remark, may contain not only
the particulars just treated of, but also claim a
certain fidelity and resemblance, without which
they ill deserve their appellation. But this
fidelity does not always bind the Artist to a
minute punctuality of likeness: we do not ex-
pect in his trees that every branch should be
precisely a portrait, though we will not allow
him to change the kind of tree, or to substitute
an oak for a holly: nor do we expect that his
buildings should be equally minute as an
architect ought to shew them, or that they
should afford geometrical measurement; but
it is, nevertheless, forbidden him to place win-
dows where there are none, or to vary the
heights of stories by a departure from truth.
What licences a view requires, must be in-
troduced with discretion; a very remarkable
object must not be omitted, because the trees
around conceal it, if it be of a nature that per-
mits a little elevation, or if the trees may be a
little thinned, or opened in that place. A
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