Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Bearb.]: 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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C H A P T E R VII.

THESE effedts of harmony and re-
pofe naturally lead me to that great
principle of the art of * painting (for it
is the great connedting, and harmonizing
principle of nature) breadth of light and
fhadow.

What is called breadth, feems to bear
nearly the fame relation to ligbt and iha-

* Or rather (in a more juft and comprehenfive view)
©f that art, which chiefiy by means of light and fhadow,
bodies forth the forms of things from a plain furface, and
which, being independent of colours, includes every fpe-
cies of drawing and engraving.

dow.