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The art of sketching from nature (1871)

Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821-1889, author · London : Bell and Daldy, York Street, Covent Garden · leaf 69

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I I CHAPTERIV. ' FOREGROUNDS. It sometimes happens that in the search for a sketch an embarras des ric/icsscs does not allow the mind to settle itself distinctly upon any one point of view which will give an adequate notion of the scenery of which it is the object of the sketcher to carry off the… … than to sit down and study a bit of foreground, and this will give the mind time to rest and to decide what it wishes most of all to carry off with it. Or it may happen, that the general and individual points of a landscape are as easily j committed to the memory by a pencil outline as by an…

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