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peculiar to themselves in producing parts os a drawing in a short time,
which require in others great labour and time to execute. Thus in
the drawing under consideration the foam that is running from the
boar's mouth, and the white hairs, which are usually called smellers,
in the upper jaw of the lion, would require time and care, if they were
left white, and the dark parts worked "carefully round them, and even
then they would probably appear stiff and blunt at the ends ; but if
the cheeks are worked up round, and the dark shadows applied with
spirit, without any regard to the white hairs, when the colour is dry
they can be taken out upon the dark shade, with the sharp point of a
penknife, with freedom, and produce a great deal more effect. The soam
from the boar's mouth is taken out in the same way. These touches
should not be made till every other part of the drawing is complete.
The natural history of the lion is so well known that it would be
superssuous to enter upon it in this work.
The wild boar was formerly found in most parts of Europe, but as
the country became more inhabited, they were hunted from the forests,
and in England totally extirpated. Charles the first procured some
from Germany, and turned them into New Forest, for the pleasure
os chase, making it penal for any person to kill them ; but during
the civil war they were all destroyed by the surrounding inhabitants,
who lived in continual fear of their ferocious neighbours. Some parts
of Germany and Poland still abound with them ; they live upon
acorns, beech nuts, roots, &c., which they find in the woods, but do
peculiar to themselves in producing parts os a drawing in a short time,
which require in others great labour and time to execute. Thus in
the drawing under consideration the foam that is running from the
boar's mouth, and the white hairs, which are usually called smellers,
in the upper jaw of the lion, would require time and care, if they were
left white, and the dark parts worked "carefully round them, and even
then they would probably appear stiff and blunt at the ends ; but if
the cheeks are worked up round, and the dark shadows applied with
spirit, without any regard to the white hairs, when the colour is dry
they can be taken out upon the dark shade, with the sharp point of a
penknife, with freedom, and produce a great deal more effect. The soam
from the boar's mouth is taken out in the same way. These touches
should not be made till every other part of the drawing is complete.
The natural history of the lion is so well known that it would be
superssuous to enter upon it in this work.
The wild boar was formerly found in most parts of Europe, but as
the country became more inhabited, they were hunted from the forests,
and in England totally extirpated. Charles the first procured some
from Germany, and turned them into New Forest, for the pleasure
os chase, making it penal for any person to kill them ; but during
the civil war they were all destroyed by the surrounding inhabitants,
who lived in continual fear of their ferocious neighbours. Some parts
of Germany and Poland still abound with them ; they live upon
acorns, beech nuts, roots, &c., which they find in the woods, but do