An introduction to perspective, dialogues between the author's children. To which is added, a compendium of genuine instruction in the art of drawing and painting [entitled Letters on drawing and painting].

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Pagina 157 - And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Pagina 163 - ... First draw a circle ; then, with the same opening of the compasses, set one foot on the circumferent line, and draw a second circle ; and again, with one foot of the compasses on the point where the two circles bisect, draw a third ; cover one whole circle with yellow, another with red, and another with blue (letting each dry before you lay the next) ; the colours intermixing by the equilateral intersection of the three circles, will produce green, orange, and purple ; and the central portion,...
Pagina 163 - By this diagram you will lave a certain proof of the colours which are most adapted to oppose each other, from which the knowledge of their harmonizing properties may be derived. You will find a primitive colour always opposite to a compound one ; as, BLUE will be opposite orange, RED opposite green, and YELLOW opposite purple; which must determine them to be Ilie natural oppositea: this is hitflily useful for a painter to understand.

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