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20 PRACTICAL HINTS ON
is repeated by the hat, and diffused by the black marble in the floor, the
white is referred to the white marble in the floor and collected into a mass
by the white wall; the carpet which is of red and warm colours, focused
at the light by a stick of wax, is repeated by the back of the chair, and
carried up by the outside of the window on the edge of the picture, which
is painted of a pale red; the forms are echoed and repeated with the
same simplicity, and the picture frame on the wall, from being smaller
than the frame of the window, serves at the same time to assist the per-
spective effect: even the fastening of the casement is not without its use
in the composition. In thus obliging a design to depend on its ground
for support, consists the principle of union and harmony; but, as I have
at present only to draw the student's attention to the arrangement of form
and that portion of composition that arises from the repetition and con-
nection of lines, I shall notice one good plan amongst many others, which
is, to mark in strongly those points in the ground which of necessity must
be introduced from natural circumstances, at the same time contriving the
group so that those points become of the greatest consequence to the
composition. This often gives a characteristic stamp of nature to the
whole.
Plate III. Jig. 7. We have here the strong dark point coming in contact
with the light ground in the most cutting manner; which is more naturally
accounted for by its being the most projecting; as it is the inside of an
empty drinking cup, it perhaps indicates the commencement of the story
as well as any other means.
Plate IV. Jig. 1. As an outline can give us little idea of this arrange-
ment, I may be allowed to observe, that the four points of light, are the
upper halves of both the figures (being of a pale yellow), the white dog
and a light wall above the fireplace brought in contact with a black pow-
der horn.
is repeated by the hat, and diffused by the black marble in the floor, the
white is referred to the white marble in the floor and collected into a mass
by the white wall; the carpet which is of red and warm colours, focused
at the light by a stick of wax, is repeated by the back of the chair, and
carried up by the outside of the window on the edge of the picture, which
is painted of a pale red; the forms are echoed and repeated with the
same simplicity, and the picture frame on the wall, from being smaller
than the frame of the window, serves at the same time to assist the per-
spective effect: even the fastening of the casement is not without its use
in the composition. In thus obliging a design to depend on its ground
for support, consists the principle of union and harmony; but, as I have
at present only to draw the student's attention to the arrangement of form
and that portion of composition that arises from the repetition and con-
nection of lines, I shall notice one good plan amongst many others, which
is, to mark in strongly those points in the ground which of necessity must
be introduced from natural circumstances, at the same time contriving the
group so that those points become of the greatest consequence to the
composition. This often gives a characteristic stamp of nature to the
whole.
Plate III. Jig. 7. We have here the strong dark point coming in contact
with the light ground in the most cutting manner; which is more naturally
accounted for by its being the most projecting; as it is the inside of an
empty drinking cup, it perhaps indicates the commencement of the story
as well as any other means.
Plate IV. Jig. 1. As an outline can give us little idea of this arrange-
ment, I may be allowed to observe, that the four points of light, are the
upper halves of both the figures (being of a pale yellow), the white dog
and a light wall above the fireplace brought in contact with a black pow-
der horn.