On Painting. Zl? 



<* The hand is the length of the face. 



" The thumb contains a nofe. 



" The infide of the arm, from the place where the'mufcle 

 difappears, which makes the breads, (called the pectoral 

 mufele,) to the middle of the arm, four nofes. 



€ f From the middle of the arm to the beginning of the 

 head, five nofes. 



" The longelt toe is a nofe long. 



" The twooutmoft parts of the teats, and the pit betwixt 

 the collar bones of a woman, make an equilateral triangle. 



" For the breadth of the limbs no precife meafures can be 

 given, becaufe the meafures themfelves are changeable ac- 

 cording to the quality of the perfons and according to the 

 movement of the mufcles. De Pi lks." 



The meafures of the antient ftatues by And ran will be 

 found highly ufeful, as they are accompanied with outlines 

 of thofe the molt diftinguifhed for correct nefs. 



The proportions of children differ from the adult as follow : 

 The child of two years old has about five heads in its whole 

 length, three of which go to the upper part, and two to the 

 lower : one of four or five years old, has near fix heads; and 

 at fifteen or iixteen, feven heads are the proportion. 



In infants, the centre or middle part between the two ex- 

 tremities of the head and feet, is the navel ; in the adult it is 

 the os pubis. 



It is the character of the man to be broadeft on the moul- 

 ders ; the woman on the hips. This will be found to hold 

 good in the male and female in mod of the animal race. 



It has been premifed that the proportion of the figure 

 mil ft vary according to the character, as what would fuit an 

 Hercules would by no means agree with Apollo. 



By proportion, we wifh to be underftood a correfpondence 

 and agreement of the meafures of the parts between them- 

 felves and with the whole. 



Much ingenious argument has been ufed by the author of 

 "The Sublime and Beautiful"" to prove that proportion is not 

 the caufe, or rather one of the caufes, of beauty. In his in- 

 quiry that author appears to have expected, the propor- 

 tion of one animal being laid down, admitting it beautiful, 

 that it ought to ferve as a general ftandard for the whole of 

 creation. "Examine the head of a beautiful borfe; fina 

 what proportion it bears to his body and to his limbs, and 

 what relation they have to each other; and when you have 

 fettled thefe proportions as a ftandard of beauty, then take a 

 dog or cat, or any other animal, and examine how far the 

 fame proportions between its head and its neck, between 



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