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A I^inter's 

 Landscape. 



Landscape 

 Painter. 



Landscape 

 Gardener. 



A picture, or painter's landscape, con- 

 sists of two, three, or more, well marked 

 distances, each separated from the other 

 by an unseen space, which the imagination 

 delights to fill up with fancied beauties, 

 such as may not perhaps exist in reality. 



" Of nature's various scenes, the painter culls 

 That for his favourite theme, where the fair whole 

 Is broken into ample parts, and bold j 

 Where to the eye, three well marked distances 

 Spread their peculiar colouring." mason. 



Here ]\Ir. Mason supposes an affinity be- 

 tween painting and gardening, which will 

 be found, on a more minute examination, 

 not strictly to exist. 



The landscape painter considers all 

 these three distances as objects equally 

 within the power of art; but his composi- 

 tion must have a foreground; and though 

 it may only consist of a single tree, a rail, 

 or a piece of broken road, it is absolutely 

 necessary to the painter's landscape. 



The subjects of the landscape gardener 

 are very different, though his scenery re- 

 quires also to be broken into distinct parts 



