slicw but little taste or intelligence in ]m 

 employer. 



Tiicre U!^ other mixtures, however, df 

 stone and Mood, which may suit the im- 

 prover no less than the painter, and which 

 have gieherally a pleasing, sometimes a 

 gi*and effect. These are bridges, where the 

 upper part, consisting of strait timbers with 

 little or no intricacy, is supported by square 

 tnassive stonepiers. Of these bridges Claude 

 vras parti culaily fond, and most commonly 

 placed them at some distance fl'om the eye, 

 where the general plan of that part of the 

 picture was nearly on a level : but there is 

 one drawins; in the Liber Veritatis,* where, 

 with the most striking effect, he has intro- 

 duced one of them in the fore-ground over 

 a rocky river, that appears to pass under it 

 tb\vards 'the country below; in^vhich St. 

 Peter's dome is seen at a distance. It is a 

 composition well worth studying ; for it 

 shews, in the most convincing manner, the 



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