Howard, Frank: The sketcher's manual: or, the whole art of picture making reduced to the simplest principles by which amateurs may instruct themselves without the aid of a master (London, 1841)

72 PICTORIAL EFFECT.

Effect, will, however, soon be got over by any-
one who is conversant with the contents of the
preceding chapters, and has .attained the power of
exercising the rules laid clown therein, without
copying the examples, but by representing subjects
under those effects. The eye will soon become
accustomed to see everything in nature in a
similar manner, and the scene or object will
instantly suggest the most advantageous mode of
treating it.

Another principal difficulty arises in the choice
of the subject: this it will be the endeavour of this
chapter to remove.

To the skilful, one subject may be as good
as another; and they may scorn to be deterred by
difficulties of management: and, as exercises of
skill to those who are tolerably proficient, the
attempt to delineate impracticable subjects, may
not be attended with disadvantage. But the
present work is for the benefit of beginners, as
well as those more advanced; and to the former,
it is requisite that some instructions should be
given as to the subjects which are best adapted
to their more limited powers of representation,