Smith, Thomas [Hrsg.]: The Art Of Drawing In Its Various Branches: Exemplified In A Course Of Twenty-Eight progressive Lessons, Calculated To Afford Those Who Are Unacquainted With The Art, The Means Of Acquiring A Competent Knowledge Without The Aid Of A Master ; Being The Only Work Of The Kind In Which The Principles Of Effect Are Explained In A Clear, Methodical, And At The Same Time Familiar Style. Illustrated With Coloured Designs And Numerous Wood Engravings (London, 1827)

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CONCLUSION.

been the first who has ever offered those ideas to the
public in the form of a drawing book. Let other and
better artists than myself do as I have done, and we
shall no longer see drawing masters who cannot draw,
and students who do not know what they are doing.

CONCLUSION.

I have now arrived at the end of this Treatise on
the Art of Drawing in Water-Colours; and though it

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consists of fewer pages than most works of this kind, I
trust it will be found fully sufficient to answer the pur-
pose intended, which is, to afford those who are un-
acquainted with drawing, the means of acquiring it with-
out the aid of a master. Many will perhaps say, that I
am advancing more than my work will make good ;
in answer to which, I must beg those persons to recol-
lect, that many of our best artists have raised them-
selves to their present eminence by their own exertions
alone, unaided even by a drawing-book ; that to acquire
this art depends almost entirely on the pupil * ; and that

* As I have before observed, a bad master may prevent the
student from getting on so fast as he otherwise would, if aided by
a good instructor, hut the best master can never advance his
pupil, if the latter does not aid his endeavours by attention and
industry.