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PLATE XII.
In the first subject, the forms of the bathing-machines are, by themselves,
objectionable, and, to adapt them for a picture, the introduction of some addi-
tional circumstance was necessary to increase the interest: the single figure is
essential to lead off the attention from the centre group. In No. 2 the quantity
of small parts, and similar forms, required both contrast and repose. Drapery
is hung up for that purpose, and the larger figures are meant to divert the eye
from the parallel lines of the buildings, and extend the interest of the scene to
the foreground. Baskets, or any appropriate picturesque objects, would have
answered the same purpose. Each example illustrates the principle, that figures,
colour, forms, &c., should he repeated, only in smaller degrees, and that equal
interest, or any equal quantities, will distract the eye : one must be made to
predominate over the rest.
In the first subject, the forms of the bathing-machines are, by themselves,
objectionable, and, to adapt them for a picture, the introduction of some addi-
tional circumstance was necessary to increase the interest: the single figure is
essential to lead off the attention from the centre group. In No. 2 the quantity
of small parts, and similar forms, required both contrast and repose. Drapery
is hung up for that purpose, and the larger figures are meant to divert the eye
from the parallel lines of the buildings, and extend the interest of the scene to
the foreground. Baskets, or any appropriate picturesque objects, would have
answered the same purpose. Each example illustrates the principle, that figures,
colour, forms, &c., should he repeated, only in smaller degrees, and that equal
interest, or any equal quantities, will distract the eye : one must be made to
predominate over the rest.