Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Oth.]: An Essay On The Picturesque: As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape (Band 1) (London, 1796)

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Beauty alone has hitherto been aimed at • -123

But they are feldom unmixed, and infipidity has
arifen from trying to feparate them - - 125

Inftance of their mixture in the human counte-

nance - ibul.

Ditto - in flovvers, fhrubs, and

trees - - - 127

Ditto - in buildings - - - 134

Chapter VI.

It has been doubted by fome whether Jmootbnefs
be eflential to the beautiful - 136

EfFedls of fmoothnefs and of roughnefs in pro-
ducing the beautiful and the pidlurefque, by
means of repofe and irritation - - - 138

Repofe the peculiar beauty of Claude’s pidtures - 145

Charadter of the pleafures that arife from irritat ion - 146
EfFedts of repofe and irritation as caufed by light
and fhadow - 147

Charadler of Rubens’s light and fhadow - J49

Ditto - of Coreggio’s - - 151

Ditto - of Claude’s, and his landfcapes com-

parea with thofe of Rubens - - 152

Chapter VII.

Breadth of light and fhadow - 157

Twilight - - - - -161

The efFedts of twilight fhould be ftudied by
improvers - - - - 164

Difftculty of uniting breadih with detail - 167

Breadth alone infufficient, but to be preferred
to detail without breadth - - 169

Application of the principle of breadth to im-

provement - - - - 171

ObjedFions to buildings being made too white - 173

Diftindlnefs - - - ~ l79

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