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picturesque ; and in the same proportion 

 that the wheels and the intricate parts of 

 the mill are less distinct in the picture of 

 Bourdon, than they appear in the land- 

 scapes of Ruysdale or Hobbima, they are 

 more so in that of Boucher : the picture 

 of the former, is a model of the use which 

 may be made of the qualities of the pictu- 

 resque; that of the latter, one of the best ex- 

 amples I know of their abuse. 



Reubens in his landscapes, appears to have 

 paid as little attention to the shapes of his 

 buildings, as to those of his trees; having of- 

 ten placed the most vulgar forms of both, 

 in his grandest compositions. The great 

 points at which he aimed, and in which he 

 so admirably succeeded, were colour, and 

 effect; and where they take possession of 

 a painter's mind, he can seldom prevail up- 

 on himself to reject, hardly to alter the 

 forms of those objects, on which such cap- 

 tivating qualities are eminently displayed. 



I have hitherto dwelt almost entirely on 

 the landscapes of those masters, who were 

 also eminent in the higher parts of the art, 

 and have only touched occasionally on the 



