NOTES. 99 



Whether I have given an exac"}: account, or made a juft 

 divifion of the quantity of light admitted into the works of 

 thofe Painters, is of no very great confequence; let every 

 perfon examine and judge for himfelf; it will be fufficient if 

 I have fuggefted the method of examining pictures this way, 

 and one means at leaft of acquiring the principles on which 

 they wrought. R. 



NOTE XL. VERSE 441. 

 'Then only juftly fpread, when to the Jight 

 A breadth of fhade purfues a breadth of light. 

 The higheft fmifhing is labour in vain, unlefs at the fame 

 time there be preferved a breadth of light and madow ; it is a 

 quality, therefore, that is more frequently recommended to 

 fludents, and infilled upon than any other whatever; and, per- 

 haps, for this reafon, becaufe it is moft apt to be neglected, 

 the attention of the Artift being fo often entirely abforbed in 

 the detail. 



To illuftrate this, we may have recourfe to Titian's bunch 

 of grapes, which we will fuppofe placed fo as to receive a 

 broad light and madow. Here though each individual grape 

 on the light fide has its light and fhadow and reflexion, yet 

 altogether they make but one broad mafs of light; the flighteft 

 Iketch, therefore, where this breadth is preferved, will have 

 a better effect, will have more the appearance of coming from 

 a mafter-hand ; that is, in other words, will have more the 

 characteristic and generale of nature than the mofl laborious 

 finishing, where this breadth is loil or neglefted. R. 



NOTE XLL VERSE 469. 

 Which mildly mixing, evry facial dye 

 "Unites the whole in hvelieft harmony. 



The fame method may be ufed to acquire that harmonious 



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