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A child's guide to pictures (1908)

Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918 · New York, Baker & Taylor · leaf 108

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ground is lighter, and the dark gradu-ally increases, swelling up, as they say in music, ina crescendo effect and then passing in a diminuendofar off into the distance. In fact, on both sides of * In 1759 a M. de Silhouette was minister of finance, and hewas so economical that the French used his… … =f. The Classic Landscape the picture the arrangement of dark and light isrhythmical. I have only touched upon the broadgeneral plan of contrasted darks and lights, andmust leave you to study for yourselves the intricateand subtle effects with which the picture abounds;for example, the fine threads…

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