AND WRITINGS OF HENRY FUSELI, Esq. M.A. R.A. KEEPER, AND PROFESSOR OF PAINTING TO THE THE FORMER WRITTEN, AND THE LATTER EDITED BY JOHN KNOWLES, F.R.S. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY AT ROTTERDAM, "Animo vidit, ingenio complexus est, eloquentiâ illuminavit." Velleius Paterculus in Ciceronem. CALFORD IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. MDCCCXXXI. THE METHOD OF FIXING A STANDARD AND DEFINING THE PROPORTIONS OF THE HUMAN 371 INTRODUCTION. IT cannot be considered as superfluous or assuming to present the reader of the following lectures with a succinct characteristic sketch of the principal technic instruction, ancient and modern, which we possess: I say, a sketch, for an elaborate and methodical survey, or a plan well digested and strictly followed, would demand a volume. These observations, less written for the man of letters and cultivated taste, than for the student who wishes to inform himself of the history and progress of his art, are to direct him to the sources from which my principles are deduced, to enable him, by comparing my authors with myself, to judge how far the theory which I deliver, may be depended on as genuine, or ought to be rejected as erroneous or false. |