Burnet, John: A treatise on painting: in four parts: Consisting of an essay on the education of the eye with reference to painting, ann four parts. Consisting of an essay on the education of the eye with reference to painting, and practid practical hints on composition, chiaroscuro and colour (London, 1837)

PRACTICAL HINTS

ON

LIGHT AND SHADE IN PAINTING.

ILLUSTRATED BY

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BY JOHN BURNET.

" The highest finishing is labour in vain, unless at the same time there be preserved a breadth of
light and shadow." Reynolds's Notes on Du Fresnoy.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE PROPRIETOR,

AND SOLD BY JAMES CARPENTER AND SON,

OLD BOND STREET.
1826.