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THE ARTIST'S ASSISTANT. H
But, above all, the young ftudent mull apply his
tad; with pleafure. as well as with Derfeverance ;
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for improvement cannot reafonabiv be expected, if
the mind (infread of being fired with emulation)
gloomily contemplates the employment as a penance ;
nor mult the patient artift be too eafilv fatisfied
with his own performance ; he muft review it and
retouch it. again and again : he muft fearch for
its blemifhes with the mod rigid fcrutiny, till, by
repeated efforts, he brings it as near to perfection
as poffible. In a word, diligence, in the beginning
of any fludy, will render the progrefs of it eafy,
and the end delightful.
Drawing has been, by fome people, efteemed as
an ornamental fuperfluity in education ; but it is,
in realitv, a molt ufeful accomplishment; at the
fame time fo elegant and agreeable an amufement
for leifure hours, that every negleclor of it has felt
and confeffed its lofs. This is become fo univer-
fally known, that nothing is thought more neceffary
to complete the education of youth than inftructions
for drawing, efpecially if their inclination or ge-
nius leads that way. For, exclufive of its great
ufe to painters, engravers, architects, engineers,
gardeners, cabinet-makers, carvers, embroiderers,
ftatuaries, modellers, chafers, tapeftry-weavers, and
a number of artifts and mechanics concerned in
defigning, how very agreeable and entertaining muft
it be ; or what can be more ufeful than for any one
to be able to fketch or draw a fine view from a
building, or any uncommon romantic production of
nature ? Nothing is more properly calculated for
the man of common bufmefs or the gentleman.
In painting it is the fole bafis on which excellence
is ereeled ; and it is, in reality, the foundation of
the polite arts,
The
But, above all, the young ftudent mull apply his
tad; with pleafure. as well as with Derfeverance ;
L J i.
for improvement cannot reafonabiv be expected, if
the mind (infread of being fired with emulation)
gloomily contemplates the employment as a penance ;
nor mult the patient artift be too eafilv fatisfied
with his own performance ; he muft review it and
retouch it. again and again : he muft fearch for
its blemifhes with the mod rigid fcrutiny, till, by
repeated efforts, he brings it as near to perfection
as poffible. In a word, diligence, in the beginning
of any fludy, will render the progrefs of it eafy,
and the end delightful.
Drawing has been, by fome people, efteemed as
an ornamental fuperfluity in education ; but it is,
in realitv, a molt ufeful accomplishment; at the
fame time fo elegant and agreeable an amufement
for leifure hours, that every negleclor of it has felt
and confeffed its lofs. This is become fo univer-
fally known, that nothing is thought more neceffary
to complete the education of youth than inftructions
for drawing, efpecially if their inclination or ge-
nius leads that way. For, exclufive of its great
ufe to painters, engravers, architects, engineers,
gardeners, cabinet-makers, carvers, embroiderers,
ftatuaries, modellers, chafers, tapeftry-weavers, and
a number of artifts and mechanics concerned in
defigning, how very agreeable and entertaining muft
it be ; or what can be more ufeful than for any one
to be able to fketch or draw a fine view from a
building, or any uncommon romantic production of
nature ? Nothing is more properly calculated for
the man of common bufmefs or the gentleman.
In painting it is the fole bafis on which excellence
is ereeled ; and it is, in reality, the foundation of
the polite arts,
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