Price, Uvedale: Essays 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 2) (Hereford, 1798)

Hobbima painted (excellent as they are in
their kind,) would, on account of their
broken forms, and flrongly rnarked intri-
cacy and irregularity, be ill fuited to the
folemnity of fuch a fubjedl. Bourdon has,
therefore, made the general form of the
building of a more maffive and uniform
kind, though fufficiently varied ; and at the
fame time that he has, with great truth,
marked the intricacy of the wheels, and the
effedl of water in motion, he has kept the
whole in fuch a mafs of broad fhadow, that
nothing preffes upon the eye, or interferes
with the ftyle of the pidfure : yet, on infpec-
tion, all the circumftances of intricacy, and
motion, amufe the mind; and, what is the
true chara6ter, and the ufe of the pictu-
refque in fuch cafes, relieve it from the mo-
notony of mere breadth, maffivenefs, and
uniformity.*

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There is a paffage in forae Effays on Painting, by Diderot,
which very aptly iliufrrates this idea of the ufe and the limits