Our sketching club : letters and studies on landscape art (1874)
Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 220
he boughs spring irregularly, at all sorts of angles, they tend more upwards, and less downwards, as they get near the top of the tree. Hence a plumy character and aspect of unity in all the branches, which is essential to their beauty. They all share in one great fountain-like impulse : each has… … a b Fig. 17. in its simplest possible type ; or as at b, showing the full intention and idea of the tree, which wants to carry out all its minor branches to the bounding curve, so that they shall all get to air and light in plenty. And the
Landscape painting · Landscape drawing
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