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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tion of the art, fhould the horfes of Ra-
phaeljGiulio Romano, Polidore, N. Pouffin>
tlieforms and charaflers of which, fuchgreat
artifis had ftudied with almoft the fame
attention as thofe of the human figure ; in
which too (as in the human- figure) they
had corredted the defedts of common na-
ture from their own exalted ideas of beau-
ty, and from thofe of their great models the
ancient fculptors ; and in which they cer-
tainiy meant to difplay (and not feebly) the
graces of thcir art,—fhouid fuch enuobied
animais, not only be rivalled, but furpaffed
even in thofe graces, by a jade of Berchem,
or Paul Potter.

The next and iaft point of difference be-
tv/een us, is with refpedt to the plumage of
birds : Mr. Gilpin thinks the refuit of plu-
mage (and he makes no exception) is pic-
turefque; and the whoie feems to me an-
other ftrikin?inftance ofhis exclufive fond-

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nefs for that characler, and of his unwii-
lingnefs, on that account, to allow any
beauty, or merit-to fmoothnefs. Ind.eed, as
x he