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pression of the Salvator's, Rembrandt's, and Waterloo's, except in
some choice collections, they are seldom better than mere reverses;
you see the form of the print, but the elegant masterly touches are
gone; back grounds and fore grounds are jumbled together by the
confussion of all distance, and you have rather the shadow than the
print itself. The last thing which makes a bad impression is, the
retouching a worn plate ; sometimes indeed it is done by the master
himself, there the spirit may be preserved, but it is generally done
by some bungler, into whose hands the plate has fallen, and then it
isexecrable; in a worn plate you have the remains of something ex-
cellent, but in a plate stratched over by a wretched bungler, the
idea of the master is lost: such prints there are of Rembrandt and
Waterloo, which those great matters would have shuddered to have
owned; yet, as we are often obliged to take up with what we can
get, let us rather choose faint impressions than retouched ones.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS.
Composition—Means a picture in general, in a large sense.
In a particular sense the art of grouping figures, and combining the
parts of a picture; in this latter sense, it is synonimous with dis-
position.
Design—In its striC l sense, applied chiefly to drawing in an en-
larged one, the general conduCtof the piece, and representation of
the story.
A WnoLz—The idea of one object a picture muft give in a
comprehensive view.
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pression of the Salvator's, Rembrandt's, and Waterloo's, except in
some choice collections, they are seldom better than mere reverses;
you see the form of the print, but the elegant masterly touches are
gone; back grounds and fore grounds are jumbled together by the
confussion of all distance, and you have rather the shadow than the
print itself. The last thing which makes a bad impression is, the
retouching a worn plate ; sometimes indeed it is done by the master
himself, there the spirit may be preserved, but it is generally done
by some bungler, into whose hands the plate has fallen, and then it
isexecrable; in a worn plate you have the remains of something ex-
cellent, but in a plate stratched over by a wretched bungler, the
idea of the master is lost: such prints there are of Rembrandt and
Waterloo, which those great matters would have shuddered to have
owned; yet, as we are often obliged to take up with what we can
get, let us rather choose faint impressions than retouched ones.
EXPLANATION OF TERMS.
Composition—Means a picture in general, in a large sense.
In a particular sense the art of grouping figures, and combining the
parts of a picture; in this latter sense, it is synonimous with dis-
position.
Design—In its striC l sense, applied chiefly to drawing in an en-
larged one, the general conduCtof the piece, and representation of
the story.
A WnoLz—The idea of one object a picture muft give in a
comprehensive view.
Nn2
Expression