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 295
er with the diminution of the distance; yet not in the manner ofsome, by wide strokes, but by closing and making them fine. On this footingthere would be less complaint of the designers, and these not think themselves in-jured on seeing their designs so ill followed. Things thus worked according to… … ^.^<e.^ai^e/ye- ih/t^. Of Engraving. 259 I have seen drawings of Go//^m5, wherein he had plainly expressed all the par-ticular objects. The tenderer smooth hodies were well washed, all neatly scnm-bled with red or black chalk. What was rou^jh or coarse he ha«I lianrljcd boldlywith the pen or…
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