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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thern to cart-horfes and beafls of burthen 1
it was by means of fuch fudden and fpi—
rited adlion, with fuch a correfpondent and
ifrongly marked exertion of mufcles, fuch
wiid diforder in the mane, as might height-
en the freedom and animation of their cha-
radter, without injuring the elegance or
grandeur of their form. If by giving jor-
cibiy the graces of his art, is to be under-
ftood the giving them with powerful im-
preffion, I cannot help thinking that Ru-
bens, when he was transferring from na-
ture to the canvafs one cf thefe noble ani-
mals, in all the fulnefs and luxuriancy of
beauty, little imagined that he was throw-
ing away his powers; and that any of the
rough high - boned cart - horfes he had
placed in fcenes with which they accorded,
were more flriking fpecimens of the graces
of his art. In Wovermans alfo, the num-
ber of beautiful pampered fteeds greatly ex-
ceeds that of his rough and pidturefque
ones.

It would indeed be a wretched degrada-
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