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sions of my favourite plates, containing light and shade which 

 did not improve them. 



I do not choose to waste time or space in discussion, till I 

 know more of the matter ; and that more I must leave to my 

 good friend Mr. Eeid of the British Museum to find out for 

 me ; for I have no time to take up the subject myself, but I 

 give, for frontispiece to this Appendix, the engraving of 

 Joshua referred to in the text, which however beautiful in 

 thought, is an example of the inferior execution and more 

 elaborate shade which puzzle me. But whatever is said in the 

 previous pages of the plates chosen for example, by whomso- 

 ever done, is absolutely trustworthy. Thoroughly fine they 

 are, in their existing state, and exemplary to all persons and 

 times. And of the rest, in fitting place I hope to give com- 

 plete or at least satisfactory account 



n. 



On the three excellent engravers representative of the first, mid- 

 dle, and late schools. 



I have given opposite a photograph, slightly reduced from 

 the Durer Madonna, alluded to often in the text, as an exam- 

 ple of his best conception of womanhood. It is very curious 

 that Durer, the least able of all great artists to represent 

 womanhood, should of late have been a very principal object 

 of feminine admiration. The last thing a woman should do is 

 to write about art. They never see anything in pictures but 

 what they are told, (or resolve to see out of contradiction,) 

 or the particular things that fall in with their own feelings. 

 I saw a curious piece of enthusiastic writing by an Edinburgh 

 lady, the other day, on the photographs I had taken from the 

 tower of Giotto. She did not care a straw what Giotto had 

 meant by them, declared she felt it her duty only to announce 



which they are made are destroyed. I was but just in time, working 

 with him at Verona, to catch record of Fra Giocondo's work in the 

 smaller square ; the most beautiful Renaissance design in North Italy. 



