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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18751#0010
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who feel desirous of acquiring a just knowledge of their picturesque cha-
racter. The whole work may be too voluminous for every one to possess ;
but as separate parts can be had, " neat cattle, sheep, horses, deer,
asses, mules," &c. it is recommended, that some specimens of them
should be procured, as they comprise all that is excellent in the study of
domestic animals.
The same mode of acquiring a certain knowledge of colouring animals
should be resorted to as described for figures. The student should sketch,
however slightly, the masses of black, brown, red, and other colours
that variegate the hides of animals ; by which means the most beautiful
combinations of tints may be procured, and without which practice
this necessary art can never be sufficiently understood.
That species of landscape composition which best suits rustic figures
of the humble class, similar to those contained in this work, is most
generally cidtivated by the artists and amateurs of this country ; it has
been denominated English pastoral. To explain what is understood by
this term, reference may be made to the compositions of Gainsborough,
whose landscapes possessed no other characteristics than those which the
woods, copses, hamlets, heaths, lanes, and such places, unadorned by
art, offered for his imitation. It was in the midst of such scenes in the
county of Suffolk that he first studied drawing. His feeling mind led
him to select such parts and such objects as nature, or the rudest works of
art combined with nature, afforded in these sequestered spots. The hum-
ble inhabitants that peopled these scenes he made the equal objects of his
study, and chose from among them such as were most congenial to his
poetic fancy : for all that he copied, although it had the appearance of
fidelity to its prototype, yet had a certain portion of his original feeling-
incorporated therein, that accorded with what the poets have termed
the pastoral style.
who feel desirous of acquiring a just knowledge of their picturesque cha-
racter. The whole work may be too voluminous for every one to possess ;
but as separate parts can be had, " neat cattle, sheep, horses, deer,
asses, mules," &c. it is recommended, that some specimens of them
should be procured, as they comprise all that is excellent in the study of
domestic animals.
The same mode of acquiring a certain knowledge of colouring animals
should be resorted to as described for figures. The student should sketch,
however slightly, the masses of black, brown, red, and other colours
that variegate the hides of animals ; by which means the most beautiful
combinations of tints may be procured, and without which practice
this necessary art can never be sufficiently understood.
That species of landscape composition which best suits rustic figures
of the humble class, similar to those contained in this work, is most
generally cidtivated by the artists and amateurs of this country ; it has
been denominated English pastoral. To explain what is understood by
this term, reference may be made to the compositions of Gainsborough,
whose landscapes possessed no other characteristics than those which the
woods, copses, hamlets, heaths, lanes, and such places, unadorned by
art, offered for his imitation. It was in the midst of such scenes in the
county of Suffolk that he first studied drawing. His feeling mind led
him to select such parts and such objects as nature, or the rudest works of
art combined with nature, afforded in these sequestered spots. The hum-
ble inhabitants that peopled these scenes he made the equal objects of his
study, and chose from among them such as were most congenial to his
poetic fancy : for all that he copied, although it had the appearance of
fidelity to its prototype, yet had a certain portion of his original feeling-
incorporated therein, that accorded with what the poets have termed
the pastoral style.