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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43161#0084
PLATE XV.
No. 1. The bright light, and the various objects introduced, are led through
the picture to the boats in the foreground, which group, it must be observed, is
essential, not only to form a mass of additional interest, and to give distance, but
to divert the eye from the straight line of the bridge, which, otherwise, would
have appeared too obtrusive. In No. 2, the towers, being detached and prominent
features, accessories were required to unite them, as parts of a whole ; and with-
out the foreground figures, there would have been an equal vacant space at each
termination of the boats. In the three smaller examples, groups of figures are
combined with scenes, and made principal, to illustrate what has been enforced
throughout the previous examples, that, whatever are the component parts of
a picture, they must never appear of equal quantities.
No. 1. The bright light, and the various objects introduced, are led through
the picture to the boats in the foreground, which group, it must be observed, is
essential, not only to form a mass of additional interest, and to give distance, but
to divert the eye from the straight line of the bridge, which, otherwise, would
have appeared too obtrusive. In No. 2, the towers, being detached and prominent
features, accessories were required to unite them, as parts of a whole ; and with-
out the foreground figures, there would have been an equal vacant space at each
termination of the boats. In the three smaller examples, groups of figures are
combined with scenes, and made principal, to illustrate what has been enforced
throughout the previous examples, that, whatever are the component parts of
a picture, they must never appear of equal quantities.