Three essays: on picturesque beauty; on picturesque travel; and on sketching landscape: by William Gilpin

Author:William Gilpin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: printed for R. Blamire

I may farther add, that the production of an effeSi is particularly necessary in drawing. In painting, colour in some degree makes up the deficency: but in simple clair-obscure there is no succedaneum. It's force depends on effect; the virtue of which is such, that it will give a value even to a barren subject. Like striking the chords of a musical instrument, it will produce harmony, without any richness of composition.

It is farther to be observed, that when objects are in Jhadow, the light, (as it is then a reflected one,) falls on the opposite side to that, on which it falls, when they are in-» lightened. ,

In adorning your Jketcb, a figure, or two may be introduced with propriety. By figures I mean moving objects, as waggons, and boats, as well as cattle, and men. But they should be introduced sparingly. In profusion they are affected. Their chief use is, to mark a road—to break a piece of foreground—to point out the horizon in a sea-view—or to carry off the distance of retiring water by the contrast of a dark sail, not quite so distant, placed before it. But in figures thus designed for the ornament of a sketch, a few flight

- touches touches are sufficient. Attempts at finishing offend.*

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