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The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842)

Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, Burnet, John, 1784-1868 · London : J. Carpenter · leaf 27

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graceful folds,which shall give the most grace and dignity to the human figure. I must beg leave to submit one thing more to the consideration of theVisitors, which appears to me a matter of very great consequence, and theomission of which I think a principal defect in the method of… … THE FIRST DISCOURSE. 15 directed to do it. Their drawings resemble the model only in theattitude. They change the form according- to their vague and uncertainideas of beauty, and make a drawing rather of what they think the figureought to be, than of what it appears. I have thought this the…

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