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letter ill.] ON COLOUR AND COMPOSITION. 293
the eye up to the sitting girl by some white spots
and indications of a ledge in the bank; then the pas-
sage to the tops of the towers cannot be missed.
The next curve is begun and drawn carefully for half
an inch of its course by the rudder; it is then taken
up by the basket and the heads of the figures, and
leads accurately to the tower angle. The gunwales of
both the boats begin the next two curves, which
meet in the same point; and all are centralised by
the long reflection which continues the vertical lines.
Subordinated to this first system of curves there
is another, begun by the small crossing bar of wood
inserted in the angle behind the rudder; continued
by the bottom of the bank on which the figure sits,
interrupted forcibly beyond it1, but taken up again
by the water-line leading to the bridge foot, and
1 In the smaller figure (32.), it will be seen that this inter-
ruption is caused by a cart coming down to the water's edge ;
and this object is serviceable as beginning another system of
curves leading out of the picture on the right, but so obscurely
drawn as not to be easily represented in outline. As it is
unnecessary to the explanation of our point here, it has been
omitted in the larger diagram, the direction of the curve it
begins being indicated by the dashes only.
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the eye up to the sitting girl by some white spots
and indications of a ledge in the bank; then the pas-
sage to the tops of the towers cannot be missed.
The next curve is begun and drawn carefully for half
an inch of its course by the rudder; it is then taken
up by the basket and the heads of the figures, and
leads accurately to the tower angle. The gunwales of
both the boats begin the next two curves, which
meet in the same point; and all are centralised by
the long reflection which continues the vertical lines.
Subordinated to this first system of curves there
is another, begun by the small crossing bar of wood
inserted in the angle behind the rudder; continued
by the bottom of the bank on which the figure sits,
interrupted forcibly beyond it1, but taken up again
by the water-line leading to the bridge foot, and
1 In the smaller figure (32.), it will be seen that this inter-
ruption is caused by a cart coming down to the water's edge ;
and this object is serviceable as beginning another system of
curves leading out of the picture on the right, but so obscurely
drawn as not to be easily represented in outline. As it is
unnecessary to the explanation of our point here, it has been
omitted in the larger diagram, the direction of the curve it
begins being indicated by the dashes only.
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