A treatise on the art of painting, in all its branches; accompanied by seventy engraved plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters .. (1817)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Craig, W. M. (William Marshall), ca. 1765-ca. 1834 · London, E. Orme · leaf 236
mer causes plain and long ground-shades, and the latter shortand uncertain ones. Hereby we properly distinguish a sun-shine from commonlight. That the one is more forcible than the other is no wonder; the proof ap-pearing in the two following examples, in Plate XXXV. better than I can expressit in… … ,<? & Ltiirrfie i>h- /■ Chrrtnyiari Jeuu i Of lights and Shades. 179 1 once painted an emblem, or rather a Narcissus viewing himself in the water:I took the light more fronting, as it is commonly ordered in sun-shine, with anintent only to shew how I apprehended sun-shine with respect to…
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