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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u think he coulcl have given the graces ol
u his art more forcibly to your cart-horfe.”

If a perfon ignorant of the art of paint-
ing were to be told, that a painter who
wifhed to give forcibly the graces ofhis art,
^ould prefer a cart-horfe to an Arabian, he
would be apt to think there was fomething
very prepoflerous both in the art and the
artifl. This will always be the cafe, when
inflead of endeavouring to fhew the agree-
ment between art and nature, even when
they appear moft at variance, a myfterious
barrier is placed between them to furprize
and keep at a diltance the uninkiated. To
me tbe fadt feems to be what we might
naturally fuppofe; that Rubens, Vandyk,
or Wovermans, when thev wiihed to fhew
the graces of their art, painted beautifiil
horfes * fuch as the general fenfe of man-
kind would call beautiful: gay pampered
.fteeds with fine coats, and high in flefh.
When they added (as they often did) a
greater fhare of pidturefquenel& to thefe
beautiful animals, it was nct by degrading

them