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one particular window, and would exclude 

 all view from that adjoining. 



Having frequently been asked whe- 

 ther my drawings were made upon such 

 a scale as not to deceive, I shall take this 

 opportunity of answering that question, 

 by discussing its possibility. 

 A Scale, Dr. Burgh, in his Commentary on 



how far 



possible. Mason, says, '' that a rural scene in rc- 

 " aliti/, and a rural scene upon canvas^ are 

 " not precisely one and the same things is a 

 " self-evident proposition:'' and Mr. Gilpin 

 has very ingeniously shewn, that " a pic- 



\ '' ture can hardly be an exact imitation 



" of nature, without producing disgust as 

 '* a picture;" but the question, whether 

 landscape is reducible to a scale, can only 

 ])roceed from a total inexperience of the 

 art of painting. A scale can only be ap- 

 plied to a diagram, representing parts on 

 the same plane, whether horizontal, as in 

 a map, or perpendicular, as in the eleva- 

 tion of a building; but even in these cases 

 the scale is erroneous, if the surface of the 

 ground plot be uneven; or if the eleva- 

 tion presents parts in perspective: how 



