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 262
mmon Light. Objefts, in a common Light, have no broad (harp Lights, and then-Shades are uncertain: The tecond Tint and Shade keep their own Co-lours much better in a clear Air without Clouds; becaufe the Objects,being lighted on all Sides without Vapour, appear fenfible, and morerelieved than in… … 190 Of Lights and Shades. Book V. no great Force, we neverthelefs find, that the main Touches both inLight and Shade are flronger than in other Lights. This Light gets great Elegance and Advantage by low Horizons;when it makes greater Shades; as under the Leafing of Trees, Mould-ings and…
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![An illustration from The Odyssey of Homer. [Translated into English verse, by Pope, W. Broome, and E. Fenton; with notes by W. Broome.] (A general view of the Epic poem, and of the Iliad and Odyssey, extracted from Bossu. Postscript, by Mr Pope. Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice [translated by T. Parnell], corrected by Mr Pope.) (1725)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/bl-bl_001722934_5-299-1.webp)
