The art of painting, in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, and their perfections and oversights laid open (1738)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Fritsch, John Frederick · London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Brotherton ... [and 17 others] · leaf 104
n-Jfes, yet he who is not converfant with the fine Motions and Beautiesof Action, (which confift moftly in the contrafting of the Members!can never hit the Writers Meaning. I place then, the Man calling out foreright; and the other Martpaft by him, looking back and hearkening to what he lays: In… … Back ofFoldoutNot Imaged Chap. 8. Of Ordonnance, or Compofition. lefs we will run counter to Nature; for I fuppofe, that he who is ap-proaching has a Stick in his right Hand, and with his left points tothe Cloth which is dropt; and the other having the Bundle on hisright Shoulder, his left Hand…
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