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 331
Chap. 16. Of Lights and Shades: Ground muft receive fome Light; and, of confequence, as long as theGround is fomewhat lighted, it is impoflible for the Sun to fhine onany thing from underneath. Suppofe, for Inftance, a Column, fixFeet*high, lighted by a Sun-fet ; if this Column throw any…
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