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its folemn grandeur, he encreafed its for-
mality '
* I will take this opportunity of mentioning a very
flriking example,of an obvious, but mofl material difHnc-
tion between painting and improving. When 2n avenue
is broken into clumps, the painter may felect a view be-
tween two of them,wnich will form a very pleafmg com-
pohtion j for as he takes in only a part of each clump, and
as they are the boundaries of his landfcape, their fepara-
tion from all other objecls, is not perceived. No one
could fufpecf from fuch a pidture, that there were other
clumps, which ftrongiy marked the old line from other
parts of the place, and injured the character of the whole
fcenery. This is perfedtly fair in the painter witn refer-
cnce to his own art; but were he employed to fhew what
would be the future efFedts of breaking an avenue into
cTurnps, it would be in the fame degree unfair: it wculd,
in fact, be a deception, and tend to miflead his employer.
Yet this is prpcifely what M. Repton has done, for the
purpofe of fhewing how an avenue may be broken with
gpod efrect f. He h,as alfo talcen a very painter-like li-
berty—that of varying the forms, and the difpontion of
thofe trees hc fuppofes to be left, fo as to give them the
appearance of two natural groups ; whereas he has made
all thofe, which are to be taken away, of one uniform
fieight and fhape, and in ftrait lines. It is fingular that
the perfon who has moft ftrongly written againft the ufe
of applying painting to landfcape gardening, fhould have
furniflied tne moft flagrant inftance of its abufe.
f Sketches and Hints on Landfcape Gai'deningj page23. plate S.
H CHAP.
its folemn grandeur, he encreafed its for-
mality '
* I will take this opportunity of mentioning a very
flriking example,of an obvious, but mofl material difHnc-
tion between painting and improving. When 2n avenue
is broken into clumps, the painter may felect a view be-
tween two of them,wnich will form a very pleafmg com-
pohtion j for as he takes in only a part of each clump, and
as they are the boundaries of his landfcape, their fepara-
tion from all other objecls, is not perceived. No one
could fufpecf from fuch a pidture, that there were other
clumps, which ftrongiy marked the old line from other
parts of the place, and injured the character of the whole
fcenery. This is perfedtly fair in the painter witn refer-
cnce to his own art; but were he employed to fhew what
would be the future efFedts of breaking an avenue into
cTurnps, it would be in the fame degree unfair: it wculd,
in fact, be a deception, and tend to miflead his employer.
Yet this is prpcifely what M. Repton has done, for the
purpofe of fhewing how an avenue may be broken with
gpod efrect f. He h,as alfo talcen a very painter-like li-
berty—that of varying the forms, and the difpontion of
thofe trees hc fuppofes to be left, fo as to give them the
appearance of two natural groups ; whereas he has made
all thofe, which are to be taken away, of one uniform
fieight and fhape, and in ftrait lines. It is fingular that
the perfon who has moft ftrongly written againft the ufe
of applying painting to landfcape gardening, fhould have
furniflied tne moft flagrant inftance of its abufe.
f Sketches and Hints on Landfcape Gai'deningj page23. plate S.
H CHAP.