The Elements of Picturesque Scenery: Or Studies of Nature Made in Travel, With to Improvement in Landscape Painting (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

Excerpt from The Elements of Picturesque Scenery: Or Studies of Nature Made in Travel, With to Improvement in Landscape Painting

It must, however, be evident that descriptions which are intended in some measure to supersede studies made with the brush, should unite, as far as possible, a syste matic arrangement of the facts described, such as is best suited for their retention in the memory, with a style simple and unexaggerated. Such embellished portraitures as please chiefly because they dazzle the imagination, would be ill adapted for the purpose of imparting information which is destined to become practically available.

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